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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

Fortune Favors the Bold

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.74.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

David Schoenfield joins Buster to discuss the Atlanta Braves winning the World Series, Jorge Soler earning the World Series MVP, Freddie Freeman affecting how other teams used their bullpens, Alex Anthopoulos making all-time great trade deadline moves, Max Fried being due for a good outing and baseball lifer Brian Snitker finally winning the big one. Then, Hembo stops by to talk about the Braves out-homering the Astros by a wide margin, the Atlanta’s bullpen, the innings discrepancy between relievers and starters, if Freeman is a Hall of Famer, and late endings to World Series games. Later, Sarah Langs on the Braves clinching on the road, Atlanta acquiring its NLCS and World Series MVPs at the trade deadline, and the chances of a Braves repeat. 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 Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021, and today will be better

0:17.6

than yesterday.

0:18.6

But yesterday was a great day for the Atlanta Braves, producing this podcast to Taylor

0:23.9

Schwink, the Reverend from his home studio in the foothills of Connecticut.

0:27.3

I'm Buster only working sort of a baggage claim version of the end of the World Series

0:31.6

Taylor, because I'm in the Houston Airport, you're going to hear calls in the background.

0:35.8

I'm not really going to hear them because I'm still overwhelmed by the sound from last

0:43.0

night's game, the lack of sleep overnight, and a lot of text messages from my 17 year

0:47.8

old son Jake, who is a huge Braves fan.

0:51.3

Okay, let's work through a couple of these things here.

0:53.9

So how is Jake doing, you know, with, you know, seeing his team win a championship, what

0:58.8

an amazing moment for him?

1:00.4

Yeah, and he's a really loyal fan and his favorite teams are not, you know, that he didn't

1:05.3

go on the bandwagon, are the Tennessee Titans, the Charlotte Hornets, and the Atlanta Braves.

1:11.0

And so I was texting back and forth to them last night, and he was talking about how cool

1:14.7

it was to see them win.

1:17.2

And I asked him if he was getting emotional, and he goes a little, which means he probably

1:20.6

was a lot.

1:21.6

So that was really cool.

1:22.6

Very nice. Well, Buster, hopefully you can kept some sleep today.

1:25.9

The off season has officially begun.

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