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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

Dope Like You: Judge & Boone’s Differing Injury Stories; Expansion & Realignment Talk; Kyle Tucker Takes a Seat

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Tim Kurkjian and Buster discuss why there is no rift between Aaron Judge and Aaron Boone following their differing injury assessments, if Tim is opening to realignment, Buster’s belief the Royals are the 2025 Tigers, Tim’s time in Williamsport, and Nolan McLean’s athleticism. Then, Hembo stops by to talk about Zack Wheeler’s injury news, Kyle Tucker’s struggles and Nick Kurtz putting up freakish numbers. Plus, what are Buster and Tim serving their families on vacation? CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 9:04 Tim Kurkjian 29:14 Hembo 47:01 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:34.9

podcast for Wednesday August 20th 2025 and today will be better than yesterday.

0:41.3

I'm Buster only working from upstate New York.

0:44.3

I'll explain why.

0:45.6

And second, Taylor Shwink is working from the Shwink Studios.

0:48.8

Taylor, how you doing?

0:49.9

Buster, I'm doing well, but not as well as you with the beautiful cabin setting behind you

0:55.8

right now. You look very comfortable where you're doing the podcast. Yeah, we've talked about this

1:00.8

in the past that, you know, every August, my siblings and I run a house with my aunt, Sinda,

1:08.3

in upstate New York that was built by my great-greats in the 1880s.

1:14.0

So as you and I are taping this, this is on Wednesday morning.

1:17.4

It's about 8.15 here, which is why I held the golf reporter voice going, where, you know,

1:23.1

I have to keep it down a little bit because there are people still sleeping.

1:27.3

And I think we'll

1:29.1

be able to work. But pretty much everybody here is on vacation except for me. So, you know,

1:35.5

we got to do what you got to do, Taylor. I'm glad you're establishing a like a scale for your voice,

1:40.9

like baseball podcast voice. That's a step under sunday night baseball voice

1:46.0

but then at the other end of the spectrum you have golf reporter voice so we'll dial it down i

1:50.3

think everyone will be okay hopefully send them my regards i will do that yeah my kids uh when they were

1:56.1

grown up they they'd always say they could yeah dad's doing the baseball voice i I couldn't go into his office. They know the difference here. So I'm going to go with golf reporter voice here. If we were after 10 o'clock, we would go more baseball, you know, like the baseball voice. Too early. Right, exactly. But for now, we're going to go with the golf reporter voice. We talk about the Yankees crazy game against the Tampa Bay raised last night yankees went 13 to 3 and they just went off

2:23.6

in the first inning high-frey ball deep center field Pereira back on the track at the wall

2:30.2

see ya a long home run high off the batter's eye.

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