Swam, there she goes. Number 62. Move on her big back. You got tough.

It's been 22 years since the summer that changed baseball forever. The great home run chase between Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa. It was a season that made fans fall in love with the national pastime again after the strike

of 1994 threatened to turn off an entire generation to the game.

Now, with baseball again on the brink, ESPN insider Buster only joins us to shed light on whether we could be looking at another lost year,

then takes us back to 1998, a season that looks more complicated in hindsight, but may have

saved the game nonetheless.

I mean the Kimes, it's Friday, June 12th.

This is ESPN Daily, presented by Marathon.

Hey, Buster.

Hey, Mena.

Buster Olney is the host of ESPN's Baseball Tonight podcast

and has been covering MLB for nearly three decades.

Buster, are you getting stopped on the street now and asking,

okay, is baseball coming back? I'm getting texts, I you getting stopped on the street now and asking, okay, is baseball coming back?

I'm getting texts, I'm getting emails, not only from like neighbors or friends, but it's players.

Huh.

Like how many players are reaching out and saying, what do you hear?

And getting a lot of that and certainly a lot of anxiety from people because of how long this

is dragged on. Well, I want to talk to you today about the upcoming 30 for 30 long gone

summer, which premieres this Sunday. It's about the 1998 home run chase between Mark McGuire and

Sammy Sosa. But first, I like the players who are texting you, do want to ask you

about baseball in 2020, because Commissioner Rob Manfred said unequivocally that they will play

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