Opening Day 2025: Jeff Passan Hates Making Picks; Joe Buck Returns to the Baseball Booth; Orioles & Mets Previews

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

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3.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Jeff Passan and Buster discuss Jeff’s regrets picking the Brewers to win the NL Central, why they like the Braves over the Phillies in the NL East, the AL East being impossible to predict, if the Yankees will make the playoffs and why everyone is sleeping on Jackson Merrill. Then, Joe Buck stops by ahead of his return to the baseball broadcast booth with ESPN. Joe and Buster talk about Joe’s broadcasting career, his dad, Vin Scully and Harry Caray. Plus, Melanie Newman preview the Orioles and Steve Gelbs previews the Mets. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 5:02 Jeff Passan 27:17 Orioles preview w/ Melanie Newman 34:25 Joe Buck 1:01:38 Mets preview w/ Steve Gelbs 1:09:28 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.6	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:41.9	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Thursday, March 27, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:49.9	Taylor Swink is in the Swink Studios back in Connecticut, a buster only out in L.A.
0:54.6	Where on Thursday, Taylor, the first game of the season, the Tigers against the Dodgers,
1:01.8	the two best left-handed pitchers in baseball, Terrick Scobble, pitching against Blake Snell on
1:06.7	opening day.
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1:11.3	It's official regular season, opening day.
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