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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

⏱️ 54 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: BleacherTweets@gmail.com 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

way out of here this is baseball tonight the podcast this is the baseball tonight

0:13.4

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

0:20.2

only working from upstate New York.

0:22.8

I'll explain why.

0:24.0

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

0:27.3

Taylor, how you doing?

0:28.4

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

0:33.3

setting behind you right now.

0:34.6

You look, you look very comfortable where you're doing the podcast.

0:37.7

Yeah, we've talked about this in the past. Every August, my siblings and I run a house

0:44.8

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

0:52.4

So as you and I are taping this, is on wednesday morning it's about 815

0:56.7

here which is why i held the golf reporter voice going uh where you know i have to keep it down a little

1:03.1

bit because there are people still sleeping and i i think i think we'll be able to work but you know

1:08.7

pretty much everybody here is on vacation except for me.

1:12.8

So, you know, we got to do what you got to do, Taylor.

1:16.2

I'm glad you're establishing a like a scale for your voice, like baseball podcast voice.

1:21.4

That's probably a step under Sunday night baseball voice.

1:24.4

But then at the other end of the spectrum, you have golf reporter voice.

1:27.5

So we'll dial it down. I think everyone will be okay, hopefully. Send them my regards. I will do that. Yeah, my kids, when they were grown up, they'd always say they could, yeah, dad's doing the baseball voice. I couldn't go into his office. Like, they, they know the difference here. So I'm going to go a 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. As we talk about the Yankees crazy game against the Tampa Bay raised last night, Yankees went 13 to 3, and they just went off in the first inning.

2:03.9

High-fry ball, deep center field, Pereira back on the track at the wall.

2:08.9

See ya. A long home run high off the batter's eye. 40 for Judge and a 1-0-0-8

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