Ms. Locked-In

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Langs joins Buster and Karl Ravech to talk about publicly announcing her ALS diagnosis, the outpouring of support from the baseball community and what it is about baseball that she loves. Then, Langs plays The Numbers Game with thoughts on Juan Soto being the young veteran, out-homering your opponent, Max Scherzer’s 10K games in the postseason and which of the wild card weekend teams has the best chance to make the World Series. Next, Ravech on the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with Mets-Padres, the Mets’ pitching strategy, the Soto antidote, Toronto’s home field advantage and his concern for Shane McClanahan. Later, Hembo makes his to triumphant return to the pod to discuss parenting twin girls, the Rays-Guardians rock fight, the Phillies’ starting pitching advantage and his lack of confidence in San Diego. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Friday, October 7, 2022, and today will be better
0:18.6	than yesterday.
0:19.6	Taylor Schwenke is working from the Schwenke studios in the foothills of Connecticut.
0:24.5	Sarah Abbott is working from the Sarah Abbott studios in Bristol, Connecticut.
0:29.2	I'm Buster only working from my hotel in Queens as I get ready for tonight's playoff
0:34.2	between the New York Mets and the San Diego Padres.
0:37.7	At the top of the show, of each show, I used the mantra and today will be better than
0:42.4	yesterday.
0:43.4	I started concluding columns with that in 2010 after my little sister, Emilie Lincoln,
0:47.8	was diagnosed with leukemia.
0:49.6	Emilie is doing great.
0:51.6	Now I started using it again at the top of this podcast after Sarah Langs reached out
0:57.2	on the summer of 2021 with the news that she was diagnosed with ALS because that is what
1:03.7	you hope for each day for her that today will be better than yesterday.
1:08.3	Well, Sarah Abbott now has done Twitter yesterday that she has ALS and got back an avalanche
1:14.6	of support.
1:16.1	She will join us today on the podcast as she prepares for her work at the start of the
1:20.8	playoff.
1:21.8	A group that's doing that the playoffs at city field tonight, Padres and Mets.
1:28.0	Before we have that conversation, we'll start with some cleanup from the regular season.
1:32.9	The Minnesota twins Chicago White Sox on Wednesday and during that broadcast, Treasure Island
1:39.3	baseball network, Cory Probe has talked about how one of the twins won the American League
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