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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.74.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Jessica Mendoza and Buster discuss how they took in Opening Day, how PitchCom is already speeding up the game, Bobby Witt Jr.’s big league debut, the best part of Shohei Ohtani’s Opening Day, and Ronald Acuña Jr. and Freddie Freeman’s “clash” in Atlanta. Then, Buster takes a closer look at Joey Votto turning over a new leaf on social media and his mic’d up performance during last night’s broadcast. Later, Todd Radom has this week’s Phantom Franchise and quiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is baseball tonight the podcast.

0:12.0

This is the baseball tonight podcast for Friday, April 8, 2022.

0:17.4

And today will be better than yesterday, although yesterday was pretty dang good because

0:22.0

it was opening day for a lot of teams in the majors.

0:25.5

Onbuster only sort of working a baggage claim Friday. I just got off a plane in New York

0:30.1

after being part of the ESPN radio broadcast, the Reds and Braves last night with Roxy

0:33.9

Bernstein, Sarah Abbott's working from the Heartland and Nebraska Taylor Shwink is

0:39.2

working from his home studio in the foothills of Connecticut and Taylor today.

0:43.1

We got baseball sounds, real games.

0:46.2

The seasons come up so fast on me, I think it's come up fast on everyone, but I'm putting

0:49.8

the rundown together and I'm like, oh my gosh, I gotta go look for some gamers, I gotta

0:53.4

go dig up some sound. It was a, it was a whole new world that we're entering into.

0:57.1

I'm very excited.

0:58.4

It was fun. Everybody yesterday was watching the debut of Bobby Whit Jr. considered to be

1:03.0

the best young prospect in baseball playing his first game for the Kansas City Royals.

1:08.1

It was one all bottom of the eighth inning. The crowd in Kansas City was going nuts

1:12.6

chaining his name and this is what happened.

1:32.9

Did you hear that crowd? Oh my God, that was like October crowd Taylor.

1:37.6

They love him in Kansas City. He's already big time. Amazing.

1:41.1

He's already big time. Denny Matthews with that call there. The Royals win an opening

1:44.8

day. Diamondbacks, Padre, Seth Bear came up in the night, Denny and his first big league

1:49.9

game.

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