Dominoes: Pete Alonso is an Oriole; Ripple Effects for the Mets; Paul Skenes’ Interesting Comments

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Hembo and Buster discuss whether Paul Skenes is gently pushing the Pirates into action, the Orioles signing Pete Alonso to a five-year deal, the Mets’ surprising lack of interest in Alonso, the pressure on David Stearns, and why Bo Bichette should be the Yankees’ free agent prize. Then, Alden Gonzalez and Jorge Castillo stop by to talk about the important stretch of the offseason ahead of the Mets, how the Alonso deal could impact Alex Bregman’s contract, and why the Royals make sense for Ketel Marte. Plus, what they’re hearing on the Yankees and Dodgers. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 6:49 Hembo 28:10 Alden Gonzalez & Jorge Castillo 58:43 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet,
0:06.3	Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments with the 4th of Jan, 226 from 11 a.m.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:23.8	Way out of here.
0:26.8	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:31.8	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Thursday, December 11th, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:39.6	A muster only working from my home in Montana.
0:42.3	Taylor Schwink is working from the mothership, ESPN, back in Bristol, Connecticut.
0:46.9	And Taylor, I know this.
0:48.3	You are surrounded by unhappy Mets fans today.
0:52.1	The groan, Buster, when the news came down. Grow. Shout. I had a. Angous shouts. It was, you know, it's funny here at ESPN when news like that breaks to hear the reaction, everyone right there, because everyone's plugged in. And, you know, I had a producer over here, my guy, Brian. He said, Taylor, I don't want to hear about it.
1:12.1	Dispondent Reds fan, Tyler, just bury his head on his desk. He's like, we need a bat in the lineup. No Schwabre, no Alonzo. So a range of emotions here, but for me, Buster, you know where my head's at. Jubilation. Well, I was going to say, you were probably drowning out those cries of pain from Mets fans in the last 24 hours because you're so excited for your Orioles. And, you know, we're going to get into it when we talked to Paul Mbikidis about what this means for the Orioles. Tell me how you heard about the deal and what your reaction was.
1:45.6	Buster, it's so funny.
1:50.1	I heard about it because I got a text from my friend Max, the Orioles group chat.
1:52.5	He just wrote Pete, exclamation point.
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