Nola Bowl

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Langs joins Buster to discuss the Nola brothers going head-to-head in the NLCS, starters pitching on short rest, two playoff rounds being played on the same day, and the (not real) momentum of the Phillies and Padres. Then, Jessica Mendoza on MLB trying to get game five of the ALDS in last night, what changes about the pitching between these teams, if Shane Bieber will be available tonight, x-factors for Philadelphia and San Diego, and what the Dodgers need to upgrade in the offseason. Later, Braves manager Brian Snitker calls in to talk about if he watches the playoffs after getting bounced, how Ronald Acuña Jr. was affected by his knee this season, rooting for Rob Thomson and the most difficult thing about managing in the playoffs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is baseball tonight, the podcast.
0:11.8	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Tuesday, October 18, 2022, and today will be better
0:18.5	than yesterday.
0:19.5	I'm Buster Only, taping this podcast from the airport in Minneapolis on my way home
0:23.9	to Montana because our show last night, baseball tonight, we were canceled following the
0:29.2	rain out at Yankee Stadium.
0:31.6	We're going to talk about that in a second.
0:33.2	Sarah Abbott is working from the Sarah Abbott studios.
0:35.6	It looks like actually they're the ESPN studios in Bristol, Connecticut and Taylor Schwink
0:41.4	who is working from the Schwink studios and fostering conspiracy theories today, Taylor.
0:48.4	My plane landed in Minneapolis and I was thinking about, okay, how are we going to start the
0:52.6	show and right away you're talking about tinfoil hats?
0:56.3	Yeah, Major League Baseball, they wanted to give the Yankees the edge, Jameson Tyone,
1:01.4	mediocre pitcher, Nester Cortez, a little bit better.
1:05.2	Major League Baseball, they want the Yankees in the ALCS against the Astros, the Blockbuster
1:11.3	matchup, and then they kind of string things along with the rain delay last night.
1:17.9	No updates for anyone, even all the people in the stadiums.
1:22.2	I feel like it was a little bit of a head fake for the Yankee fans and also kind of a gift
1:28.2	to the Yankees organization because all these people are stuck in their stadium, their
1:31.0	buying food, their buying booze, not at discounted prices.
1:35.2	It's the best of both worlds for everyone.
1:36.8	I think it makes a lot of sense.
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