Mr. Grinch: Bleacher Tweet Holiday Mailbag; Red Sox Trade for Wilson Contreras; Phillies' Bullpen Makeover

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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3.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Buster put the call out to the listeners and the Bleacher Tweeters answered! Buster digs into the inbox to deliver shoutouts to our One Dot Club listeners and answer questions. Plus, what's Buster making for Christmas dinner, and why can't he keep a secret? Then, Tim Kurkjian stops by as he awaits the birth of a grandchild to talk about the Red Sox trading for Wilson Contreras, the Phillies re-tooling their bullpen, the Royals making moves to compete in the AL Central, the White Sox signing Munetaka Murakami, and the first time he met Earl Weaver. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 8:36 Bleacher Tweets 26:44 Tim Kurkjian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there. Surprise.
0:02.0	30 for 30 presents Booja.
0:05.2	Can I get a witness from the congregation?
0:08.1	You can't stop authenticity.
0:10.0	Boo ya!
0:11.0	Stewart was exactly like you saw him on camera, off camera.
0:14.4	He dialed it up 10%.
0:15.7	Can you imagine the impact of young black boys and girls looking at that going, I feel seen. He changed the culture.
0:22.6	He changed sports.
0:24.2	Stream Booja, presented by Madelo,
0:26.6	right now on the ESPN app.
0:34.0	Way out of here.
0:36.6	This is baseball tonight the podcast
0:39.8	this is the baseball tonight podcast for monday
0:44.9	December 22nd 2025 and today
0:47.9	will be better than yesterday
0:49.4	I'm buster only working from my home in Montana
0:51.8	Taylor Schwink is working from ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut.
0:56.4	And Taylor, I've been wondering this because, of course, this is the favorite time of year if you're around little kids at all. How is Lola handling the holidays?
1:06.1	Buster, I'm going to sound like an annoying dad here. She is 22 months old.
1:12.5	She kind of gets Christmas.
1:18.2	Like she understands that Santa is coming, you know, on an unspecified day to deliver presents and reindeer will be in the mix.
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