Invoking Thomas Edison and Bobby Cox

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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3.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Sarah Langs joins Buster to discuss the Dodgers-Giants’ first-ever postseason meeting, Chris Taylor’s walk off against the Cardinals, the questions surrounding the White Sox, potentially a huge series from Wander Franco, the Rays’ starting rookie pitchers and if the Braves can overcome the Brewers’ three-headed monster. Then, Hembo stops by to defend Phil Nevin waving Aaron Judge home in the AL Wild Card game and share his X-factors for every playoff team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is baseball tonight, the podcast.
0:10.0	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Thursday, October 7, 2021, producing from its home
0:18.0	studio in Connecticut, it's Taylor Schwing.
0:20.0	I'm a buster only working for my home in New York.
0:24.0	Today will be better than yesterday and it has to be because yesterday really stopped.
0:29.0	There's a lot of baseball to get to today but I just want to say I'm going to miss working with Matt Bersergin,
0:35.0	who told the New York Post yesterday that he's stepping away from his duties as a play-by-play man of Sunday night baseball.
0:41.0	I get to work with Matt.
0:43.0	Without it's Jessica Mendoza over the last four years.
0:46.0	Matt is a great teammate.
0:48.0	He is a friend, he's someone who I respect and I trust.
0:53.0	And this news just stinks.
0:55.0	I feel the same way about Matt leaving as I did when Dan Schoelman stepped away from Sunday night baseball.
1:01.0	Just hurts.
1:03.0	I am thrilled for Matt that he went out with a record rating and that Tuesday night wildcard game between the Yankees and the red sucks.
1:10.0	You saw that number right Taylor?
1:12.0	Oh my gosh buster, what?
1:14.0	What a number indeed.
1:15.0	We speculated off the pod about what it may be.
1:18.0	And I think you were right in the ballpark, no pun intended.
1:22.0	It was the most watched majorly baseball game on ESPN platforms.
1:26.0	Since 1998, you think that's a long time?
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