Frenetic and Fast

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Tim Kurkjian and Buster discuss the passing of Tim Wakefield, Buck Showalter announcing his own firing, Joey Votto getting tossed in his final game, the Astros winning the AL West, the Cubs’ collapse, Cal Raleigh calling out the Mariners front office and Tim's World Series pick. Then, Sarah Langs on the Giants firing Gabe Kapler, the 2021 100-game losers now in the postseason, the Dodgers’ consecutive 100-game seasons, and the Braves dramatically tying the single-season home run record. Later, Tigers manager, A.J. Hinch on Miguel Cabrera’s final weekend in the big leagues, and his thoughts on whether a first-round bye is an advantage. 8:38 - Tim Kurkjian 27:04 - Sarah Langs 37:04 - A.J. Hinch 48:22 - #BleacherTweets 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 Monday, October 2nd, 2023, and today will be better
0:18.3	than yesterday.
0:19.3	My master only working for my home in Montana, he headed to Philadelphia early on Monday
0:23.6	morning.
0:24.6	Taylor Schwink is working from the Schwink Studios, and Sarah Abbott is back in the Bristol
0:28.1	area as well.
0:29.5	There's a lot to talk about today on the last day of the regular season, but this was
0:34.2	an incredibly sad day.
0:36.9	Former Red Sox Nuckerballer Tim Wakefield passed away at age 57 on Sunday.
0:43.8	There was an enormous response on social media from other players that he played against
0:48.3	from teammates, from people all around baseball about what a great person he was.
0:53.3	Here was Alex Korra, the Red Sox manager after the Boston game.
0:57.6	We lost a brother, a teammate, a family member, you know, stays in the kids, you know, my
1:04.2	condolences.
1:05.2	You know, we're here for them, but like I was telling the guys, you know, this guy, one
1:10.6	of the best teammates I ever had, you know, and this is not BS.
1:13.6	You know, this guy was there for us all the time.
1:16.4	He was accountable.
1:18.5	He was what a Boston Red Sox should look like.
1:22.0	You know, I don't know if you guys noticed, everybody had their jerseys in the dugout.
1:25.9	He was a tribute to him because all the guys I play with, nobody wore his jersey with
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