Grown Man Conversation: Alternative History with Eric Hosmer; Ronald Acuña Jr. Plays Nice; Buster's Top 5

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Eric Hosmer and Buster discuss Hos returning to Kansas City to celebrate the 2015 World Series, what advice he’d give to Craig Breslow about tough conversations with players, Juan Soto’s return to the Bronx and Ronald Acuña Jr. making amends. Then, Darryl Strawberry shares what his reception was like after returning to Shea Stadium as a Dodger. Next, David Schoenfield talks about the Yankees-Mets rivalry returning to 2000-levels of animosity, the Dodgers fixing their issues, and their musings as to why pitchers are getting injured at a higher rate in the modern game. Later, Sarah Langs shares her essay on Aaron Judge. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 5:07 Eric Hosmer 26:06 Darryl Strawberry 26:56 David Schoenfield 41:29 Sarah Langs 42:56 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.
0:04.8	Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable
0:10.3	themes that let you build your brand, marketing tools that get your products out there.
0:14.7	Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time. From startups to scaleups, online,
0:20.1	in person and on the go. Shopify is made for
0:22.8	entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.
0:33.7	Way out of here. This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:41.7	This is a Baseball Tonight podcast for Friday, May 16th, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:49.3	I'm Buster Only working from my home in Montana.
0:52.0	Taylor Swink is working from back in Connecticut. And I guess,
0:55.1	hey, Taylor, I just want to say that you do a great job in this podcast. I really appreciate your
0:59.7	efforts. I see you, see what, how hard you work. And it's, it really pays off with the podcast
1:07.9	every time we're on. Thank you. I appreciate that, Buster, and I appreciate
1:11.7	you. You know, you work hard. You have lots of responsibilities. This is what you learn at ESPN.
1:16.8	Buster's on TV. He's writing. He's doing the podcast, but you always put the podcast first. And that's
1:21.5	what I love about you, man. That in our friendship, you know, we're bonded at this point, six years in, let's go. Yeah, no kidding.
1:28.3	Man, I didn't think six years.
1:30.0	Yeah, season six, baby.
1:31.0	But you're right.
1:31.3	This is season number six.
1:32.8	That's absolute, that is crazy.
1:35.1	All right, let's dive into the top five for this week.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 14 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ESPN Radio, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of ESPN Radio and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.