Gnat in Greeny’s Ear

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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David Schoenfield joins Buster to discuss the Cardinals storming into the playoffs like Smarty Jones, the Padres’ official turn down Bitter Boulevard, Kevin Kiermaier scooping up the Blue Jays’ data card on the field and the need for a pitch clock to speed up the game. Then, Hembo stops by to talk about Connor McGregor’s first pitch, the Phillies flailing down the stretch, not betting on San Diego’s future, Salvador Perez’s historic season and why Shohei Ohtani should unanimously win the AL MVP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the baseball tonight podcast.
0:12.0	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Wednesday, September 22, 2021, producing from his
0:18.4	home studio in Connecticut, it's Taylor Schwenk, I'm Boston only working from my home studio
0:22.8	in New York and today will be better than yesterday.
0:26.0	Taylor, I was thinking overnight as I watched one team in particular in Major League Baseball
0:33.3	on a panic race of Smarty Jones 2004 Kentucky Derby.
0:38.0	Remember that?
0:39.0	Fakely, I'm not a big horse racing guy but I think I can know the analogy you're going
0:43.4	for.
0:44.4	Okay, let's go.
0:45.4	And undefeated Smarty Jones comes wide off the turn and these two hooked up at the top
0:50.4	of the stretch, Lionheart is all heart. Smarty Jones is all out and those two, deadlocked
0:57.0	at the eighth pole and Smarty Jones is rose to the lead by Jeremy Jockey Stewart of
1:02.8	it and they have taken a lead away from Lionheart farther back in slam, hustle and imperialism
1:08.5	and here is the first undefeated winner of the Kentucky Derby since Seattle slow in 1977.
1:15.6	Smarty Jones has done it.
1:17.3	Smarty Jones who came from dead last in the 2004 Kentucky Derby to make the playoffs
1:23.1	and everyone was wondering at the end of that race, you could almost hear it and the
1:26.2	announcer's voice like, where did that guy come from?
1:29.0	Where did that horse come from?
1:30.4	Yeah.
1:31.4	That's kind of how I'm feeling about the St. Louis Cardinals.
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