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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Tim Kurkjian joins Buster to discuss Xander Bogaerts hitting the COVID list, Boston’s struggles over the last month, Lance Lynn and Lucas Giolito heading to the IL, the “apologizes” from Javier Baez and Francisco Lindor, and Abraham Toro hitting a grand slam off of Kendall Graveman. Then, Hembo talks about booing, Baez’s free agent prospects, why the Rays are the best organization in sports, the last time the Giants and Dodgers owned the top-two spots in the NL West, and strength of schedule for the teams battling for the second NL Wild Card. 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, September 1st, 2021.

0:17.5

And today will be better than yesterday, producing from his home studio in the foothills

0:21.7

Connecticut, his Taylor Twink, I'm Buster only working from my home office in New York

0:26.3

and Taylor in your lifetime. What was a prominent moment when you apologized?

0:31.8

Because we certainly saw some of that yesterday. What was your biggest apology of your life?

0:37.1

Oh my gosh. I probably have apologized my wife about many things throughout the years.

0:44.4

One time in my senior week after high school, I inadvertently, I know this is going to sound

0:50.2

dumb without the explanation, but kind of trashed an apartment that might have belonged to

0:56.6

a friend of my father's at Ocean City. And he might have kicked the door in when I was sleeping and

1:03.0

and got in my face and yelled at me. So I had to apologize and put in some some hard labor hours

1:08.2

to make up for that one. Man, that is significant. I like that. I like that word might have.

1:15.4

Because you sounded a little bit like the apologies we heard yesterday from Francisco Lindor

1:20.0

out here by us before the match game and what would turn out to be a great day for the match.

1:25.5

Here's Francisco Lindor addressing the thumbs down gesture that they had been making.

1:30.3

It was wrong and I apologize to me. Whoever I offended, it was not my intent to offend people.

1:39.8

I can't go against the fence. I've never done in my career. We played for the fence like

1:47.0

how he said. How we said we played for the fence. He's 100% right for our teammates,

1:52.9

for the front office, for our families, for the city. So we doubt being said. Like I said,

2:00.0

I apologize and he didn't look good on our part. He was surrounded by a horse tube reporter's

2:06.3

when he had that conversation. So it was obvious. I didn't mean to offend anybody.

2:12.2

This is something that I've done in the past against the other team. I did it in the

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