Hour 2: World Series Breakdown with ESPN’s Buster Olney, plus Commanders’ Sinking Season

The Rich Eisen Show

ESPN

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4.3 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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ESPN MLB Insider Buster Olney joins Rich in-studio to break down the Dodgers-Blue Jays epic World Series Game 3, says if Shohei Ohtani’s “competitive rage” makes him the greatest athlete of all time, if the Jays could intentionally walk Ohtani the rest of the series, discusses the Philadelphia Phillies’ big offseason that includes smoothing things over with Bryce Harper and keeping Kyle Schwarber from leaving in free agency, Paul Skenes’ future with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the possibility MLB players will agree to a salary cap in the next Collective Bargaining Agreement, and more. Rich weighs in on the 3-5 Washington Commanders’ rapidly sinking season with injured QB Jayden Daniels watching from the sidelines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.2	ESPN MLB columnist Buster Olney.
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0:59.8	Joining us right now, fresh back from Dodger Stadium, and I hope it is fresh. Ladies and gentlemen, Buster Olney of the SPN and ESPN.
1:06.5	And we're going to see you. I'm doing great. Great to see you again. I did not see you. Great to see you again, too. I did not see a photograph of you in, in Dodger Stadium. So I don't know if you're wearing the same clothes. I'm assuming you have gone back. I don't even know if I'm wearing the same clothes, right? I just rolled out and I came to see you. I asked you before, but share with everyone. When did you get back to your hotel room? At 1.30 last night.
1:28.2	And then my first radio hit today was at 5 o'clock. And so I was up at 4.45. And then you know how it goes. You just roll through. I know. Also, we're part of the car wash. Fantastic. We'll take it. We'll take it. No, no, no. But I turned down on the show, they were like, hey, can you do this?
1:43.9	Can you do this?
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