No Sleep in Seattle: Blue Jays Tie ALCS; Dodgers Take Commanding 3-0 NLCS Lead; Is Bryce Harper Still Elite?

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Tim Kurkjian and Buster discuss Phillies GM David Dombrowski’s comments on Bryce Harper, if the Yankees should continue with Anthony Volpe as their starting shortstop, the Dodgers deploying another aircraft carrier on the mound, Seattle pitching in a fist fight with the Blue Jay bats, Max Scherzer providing pure theater, if Dan Wilson put his pitching in a corner, and why Tim is convinced momentum doesn't exist this season. Plus, Sarah Langs plays The Numbers Game. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 21:50 Tim Kurkjian 44:34 Sarah Langs 45:31 Max Muncy w/ Boog Sciambi 51:41 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.8	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Friday, October 70, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:49.8	I'm Buster only working from the lower lobby at the hotel where I'm staying, trying to avoid the lobby
0:56.7	music that we heard on the podcast yesterday. Taylor Schwink is working from the Schwink
1:01.9	studios back in Connecticut. Taylor, we got somebody to get up with us today.
1:06.1	Timmy Kirkshin, the legend himself, proving while he's a Hall of Famer, you know, that kind of work
1:10.0	ethic, that's how you get to Cooperstown. Right. Exactly. It was interesting. I gave him, you know, a couple options about what time to tape this one. And he said, yes. And so I immediately seized on it and took the earlier time. Like I was like, man, we get somebody who agreed to get up. And here's the thing, too, is that we know that he's going to follow through, right? I mean, Tim is not someone who's going to bail on you once he says he's going to do something. He's rock solid for sure. And I can't wait to talk to him. I mean, I love hearing him on the radio call. That's something we don't get all the time. So just hearing his voice and those, it's just a little tease. So I'm glad we get the whole thing today. Yeah, we've got a lot to talk about today. Of course, Mariners in game four, an opportunity to take control of the series. Instead, Max Scherzer had something to say about that. The Dodgers are up 3-0 in their series.
2:01.7	But let's start with a couple of notes outside of the two elite championship series.
2:07.2	First, in Philadelphia, David Dombrovsky, head of baseball operations, met with reporters.
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