Dream

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Hembo and Buster discuss Shohei Ohtani cementing himself as the face of baseball, the most significant moment of Ohtani and Mike Trout’s careers, Bryce Harper staying off the 60-day IL and Hembo’s preseason superlatives. Then, Alden Gonzalez on the World Baseball Classic final being one of the best experiences he’s had at a ballpark, the game ending in the matchup everyone wanted, Ohtani’s growth as a pitcher and something he’s never seen before on the field. Later, Todd Radom delivers this week’s Forgotten Field and administers the quiz. Plus, Buster previews the Cardinals and the Nationals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:12.0	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Wednesday, March 22, 2023, and today will be better
0:19.0	than yesterday.
0:20.0	Working from Bristol, Taylor, Sarah Bruce, Ambassador Only, I'm working from my home in Montana,
0:25.4	and morning guys.
0:27.2	I feel like after we saw the final of the WBC last night, the operative word is dream,
0:33.6	okay?
0:34.6	Because we all talked about the dream matchup, and it feels like that it was a dream come
0:39.8	true for Major League Baseball for the Player Association, who co-unless event.
0:45.8	And I was thinking about, and look, tell me if you agree with me on this.
0:49.0	You know, we talk about the NBA and its development and its marketing.
0:53.6	The dream team in 1992 was so big because, you know, for basketball fans who had their
1:01.0	imagination spurred with a question of, what will it look like having Magic Johnson play
1:06.6	alongside Larry Bird, play alongside, you know, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, etc.
1:15.5	And that event really spurred Baseball going forward and going into the WBC, the dream matchup,
1:22.4	what everybody was thinking about was, how cool would it be if we got to see Shohei
1:27.4	Otani pitching to Mike Trout, his teammate, you know, his good friend in a big moment.
1:33.8	And man, we got that last night.
1:36.6	It was awesome.
1:37.6	I couldn't believe it.
1:38.6	I mean, throughout the day, there was the talk of like, oh, Shohei Otani's going to come
1:41.5	out of the bullpen.
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