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This is baseball tonight, the podcast.

This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Thursday, November 20th, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.

Taylor Schwink is actually working.

You're working for the Swink Studios again today, yes, Taylor?

I'm at the Shwink Studios today. Doing a little flip-a-roo here because our guest, Buster. Well, hold on here. But I wanted to mention the Swink Studios. You sent me. You now have merchandise for the Shwink Studios. Oh, gosh. I thought we were taking this to a place talking about ESPN. And yeah, there's, you know, there some paraphernalia up on the walls. And, you know, we've got a coffee mug. We've got a sign in here. It's an official operation buster. This is where we run the baseball tonight podcast. So, you know, it should reflect that. Okay. And I'm buster only. You should make that clear. I'm in Montana. our guest today of David Chonfield. And Dave, I think he's got more merchandise at this point for the Swank Studios than the Manning Brothers have in what they're doing. I mean, have you started your Etsy site yet, Taylor? I mean, let's get the stuff out there for the public to purchase. I know. We should, you know what? We really need to look into additional revenue streams.

So, Dave, thanks for joining us here. We're off to a great start. Yeah, exactly. Dave's joining us from actually from ESPN. He's in Bristol today. And as always, there's a lot to get to. We're going to be talking to Craig Stamen, the new manager, the San Diego Padres. And we're going to hear from Sarah Langs, Dave, on the Josh Naler signing for the Seattle Mariners. I don't think it was

surprised that he goes back to the Mariners. They clearly valued him. Making the big acquisition,

the trade deadline, seeing him go out and hit good pitchers in the biggest games of the year

during the postseason, stepping up and performing really well. I talked to another executive

with another team about what the Mariners gave him, the five years in $92.5 million.

He said, yep, that's right.

In this executive's mind, absolutely a market deal for a guy who played really well this year.

Yeah, he was really the perfect fit.

You know, when I granted that trade, I gave it an A-minus.

One thing to factor in, Buster, really, since the Mariners traded John Oleroo, way back in 2004.

First base has been a 20-year problem.

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