Opening Day 2022

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Buster Olney and Braves GM Alex Anthopoulos discuss celebrating the World Series in Atlanta with the fans on Opening Day, the process of designing the championship rings, when Ronald Acuña Jr. may return, early impressions of Matt Olson and his thoughts on PitchCom. Then, Karl Ravech stops by to talk about his excitement for the season to start, the potential reception for Olson, how the Braves are feeling heading into a title defense, Joey Votto’s TikToks and José Ramírez’s new contract with the Guardians. Later, Hembo on Ramírez, the three most important players this season and potentially the best player in baseball through April. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Thursday, April 7, 2022.
0:17.0	And today will be better than yesterday because today is opening day.
0:21.4	Taylor Schwenke is working from his home studio in the foot of the Connecticut.
0:25.0	Sarah Abbott is in the heartland.
0:27.2	And guys, I think we can agree on this.
0:29.8	You're jealous of me because I can see right outside my window,
0:33.0	true is park.
0:34.5	Where tonight, I'll be an opening day in baseball watching see the braves try to take their first
0:39.7	step trying to repeat his champions.
0:41.5	What do you think?
0:42.5	I'm definitely jealous of that.
0:44.1	And I know you like to go on like a little pregame walk, like that energy that comes from
0:49.0	opening day.
0:50.0	I mean, that's it's one of a kind.
0:51.9	It's an American tradition buster.
0:53.4	So enjoy it out there.
0:54.6	I definitely will be jealous as I sit here in my basement.
0:57.5	I'm in my basement too.
0:59.0	So I will definitely be jealous that you get sunshine and get that opening day atmosphere.
1:04.9	Yeah.
1:05.9	Later at the ballpark, I'm sure you know, you greet members of the braves member of the
1:09.6	Cincinnati Reds, seeing Joey Botto and seeing Matt Olson.
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