Popcorn the Cat: Janet Marie Smith on Dodgers Stadium CF; Mariners Swinging; Baseball Birthdays

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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3.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Alden Gonzalez and Buster discuss their favorite birthday gifts they’ve received, the Mariners’ exciting offensive start, if four NL West teams are better than any team in the American League, and the Braves grinding toward .500 after a brutal start. Plus, Sarah Langs has an essay on birthdays and the best baseball birthdays. Then, influential stadium architect Janet Marie Smith gives Buster the scoop on what’s going on with centerfield in Dodger Stadium, creating a three-floor clubhouse, the Japanese-style toilets in the locker room, and her favorite stadiums. Later, Todd Radom shares the Ballpark & Beyond and administers the quiz. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 8:18 Sarah Langs on birthdays 10:23 Alden Gonzalez 29:51 Janet Marie Smith 44:48 Todd Radom 54:00 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Way out of here.
0:06.7	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:11.9	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Friday, May 2nd, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:19.6	I'm Buster, only working from my home in Montana,
0:21.8	looking forward to our Sunday broadcast in Atlanta.
0:24.9	We've got the Los Angeles Dodgers playing against the Atlanta Braves.
0:29.1	Taylor Swink is working from the Schwink Studios.
0:31.7	And Taylor, today is Sarah Lange's birthday.
0:35.2	Happy birthday to you.
0:38.2	Yep.
0:39.2	And, you know, we've heard from Sarah before about how important her birthday is to her, Taylor.
0:45.5	I'm looking forward to hearing that.
0:46.9	She sent us a nice essay about birthday importance and also about the best birthday in baseball
0:51.6	history.
0:52.5	The birthday bit, she has like capitalized on it.
0:55.8	She's the owner of the I Love
0:58.0	My Birthday Club. So when it
0:59.8	gets to this day on the calendar, it is a true
1:03.4	celebration. I really like that she, a lot of
1:05.8	people like, you know, they dread
1:08.1	their birthdays. They're not into it. But I
1:09.9	like that she celebrates it. It's, you should celebrate yourself at least once a year. Come on.
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