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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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3.7 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Boog Sciambi and Buster discuss Sunday Night Baseball between the Dodgers and Giants, getting to know the Cubs locally, the NL wild card race, and the Mets retiring Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry’s numbers — before arguing with Jeff Passan to close the segment. Then, Passan and Buster talk about Shohei Ohtani tearing his UCL, if he’ll get Tommy John surgery, and an update on Jeff’s back. Then, Sarah Langs shares her reaction to Ohtani’s injury, closes the book on Ohtani’s pitching this season, and has numbers on Paul DeJong and Zack Gelof. Later, Todd Radom with the Forgotten Field and administers the weekly quiz. [11:26] Boog Sciambi [24:13] Jeff Passan [39:05] Sarah Langs [47:06] Todd Radom [57:31] #BleacherTweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:11.8	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Friday, August 25, 2023, and today will be better
0:18.3	than yesterday.
0:20.0	Working from back in Connecticut, Taylor Shrink and Bruce Baldwin.
0:23.3	Sarah Abbott has this Friday off.
0:25.6	I'm Buster Only for working from my home in Montana, guys.
0:29.1	We just got devastating news since the last podcast that we take on Wednesday morning
0:35.7	about Shohei O'Connie and his UCLA injury.
0:40.0	Tell me how you heard about this, Taylor, and what your reaction was.
0:44.0	Well, at ESPN, we've probably mentioned this before, but we get an email about every
0:49.7	five hours, six hours or so with the top headlines, and there it was.
0:53.9	Top of the inbox.
0:54.9	Very sad.
0:56.4	Not something you want in the inbox.
0:57.4	You get a lot of bad emails, but that's definitely toward the top.
1:01.5	Yeah.
1:02.5	I just, it felt like an absolute body blow, like, oh, my God, because his time is a picture,
1:08.1	because it could be that he's going to face a second Tommy John surgery that might be
1:11.8	truncated.
1:12.8	Bruce, what were you thinking about?
1:14.3	I mean, we just got the news about Dwight Gooden having his number retired.
1:18.8	He was someone who, when we saw him as a young picture, you expected everlasting greatness,
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