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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

First Podcast Interview

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Langs joins Buster to discuss why all the players don’t wear No. 21 for Roberto Clemente Day, the Cardinals’ slow climb into the NL Wild Card race, Robbie Ray’s continued dominance and matching up the premier shortstop free agents with their future teams. Later, Braves manager Brian Snitker stops by for his first podcast interview. He and Buster talk about how gratifying it is to being atop the NL East with challenges the team has faced this season, the impact of trading for Joc Pederson, Ozzie Albies’ maturity, Austin Riley coming up big and his connection to Bobby Cox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is baseball tonight, the podcast.

0:11.8

This is the baseball tonight podcast for Thursday, September 16, 2021 and today will be better

0:18.7

than yesterday, producing from his home studio in the foothills of Connecticut as Taylor

0:22.4

Schwenk, I'm buster only working from my home in New York and Taylor, as I was here yesterday,

0:27.6

watching games yesterday and Roberta Clemenny Day and I'm looking at the players and some

0:32.5

of them are in 21 and some are not, in fact most are not.

0:36.6

And I just, it just occurred to me why, why is there not permission for all players

0:42.2

to work 21, the way that there is on Jackie Robinson Day.

0:46.3

I mean, it's, it's Roberta Clemenny Day, shouldn't everyone be wearing 21?

0:49.9

Yeah, I saw that they, they, they were more players this year wearing 21, which I thought

0:55.5

was already strange and yeah, that's, that's a great point.

0:58.6

Like a view if you want, like everyone should just wear it.

1:00.5

Like if you're going to make a whole day out of it, like, let's go all in.

1:03.9

Don't, don't go half in.

1:05.1

Yeah, and then it's funny as I, as I just pose that whole question, my colleague Marley

1:10.3

Rivera texted me because I sent her a note.

1:12.0

I'm like, why doesn't everyone wear 21 or answer was any player who requested was supposed

1:17.9

to be allowed.

1:18.9

It's not retired.

1:20.0

So that's why it's not an across the board thing.

1:22.7

Let's make it an across the board date for next year.

1:24.7

It doesn't make any sense.

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