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This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Wednesday, March 25th,

2026, and today will be better than yesterday because today is opening day.

And so I'm really happy.

I'm Buster Only working from my home.

And I'm really happy to be bringing on Paul M. Bikides, of course, who's a content producer

on the show Get Up, joining Taylor and I today, Hembo, happening, opening day to you. It's a national holiday buster, not because this game between the Yankees and the Giants is going to be so thrilling, it's going to be like any other regular season game, because what today marks, of course, is seven straight months of the most beautiful game ever conceived being played every single day. And that's the beauty of baseball, not in its peaks and valleys, but in its omnipresence. I can't wait to sit down on my couch, watch that game and watch many, many others over the next seven months, talk about them with you and enjoy every single one of them. Okay, I do want to get real. I was going to ask you this. You set me up perfectly for that. You have an insane schedule where you have to get up at like three o'clock in the morning and typically you are disciplined to go to bed at what time? Between seven and eight o'clock here on the East Coast, right after my three and one-year-old daughters wind up hitting the hay. Right. So what is your plan in this particular day? I mean, it's opening day. It's a different day. It's a special day. Are you going to go short on sleep or are you going to stick with your discipline? I'm probably going to do neither and wind up really paying for it the next day where I don't get the full enjoyment of watching all nine innings nor the full enjoyment of a full night's rest. And so that's what you like to call having your cake and eating neither piece of cake. That's probably what I'll wind up doing and failing. But look, Buster, I can't sit here in good conscience, be awake and not see the very first pitch of the major league baseball season. Max Fried and Logan Webb, it really doesn't get any better than this. I think it's a fun way to kick off the season. And what it marks, of course, is seven straight months of this

glorious thing on my TV every single day. A hundred percent. Let's get dive into the news.

Pete Carl Armstrong gets a big extension with the Chicago Cubs. This is something they tried to do last

year. He went out. He had a monster season.

You know, his perspective, I can't remember which reporter he talked to about this last year,

but he was like, eh, the money would take care of itself. And he felt like he had an obligation

to other center fielder's in the marketplace to max out what he could possibly get. What do you

think? I think by waiting a year,

he most certainly increased the size of his bank account exorbitantly. So in that sense,

it was a good bet. But I have to admit, Buster, that as a hitter, I'm something of a PCA skeptic.

I don't say that proudly. I see that grudgingly because I find his talent to just be so

eminently attractive let's be honest like

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