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This is the baseball tonight podcast for Monday, March 30th,

2006, and today will be better than yesterday.

I'm Buster Only. Taylor Schwenke is working from the Schwink Studios back in Connecticut,

and we are joined in the top of the first by Hunter Pence, who, of course, played 14 years

in the majors. And last week, you heard him on the season opening broadcast of the game between the Giants and the Yankees. Hunter, how you doing?

Buster, thanks so much for having me on. I'm doing great. Baseball season is upon us. The ABS system is so fun. And, yeah, it couldn't be much better. It's go time. Well, and I told so many people after I got to work with you on those baseball tonight's last fall, what a fun time I had with you in October.

I was like, you know, Hunter grinds it. Well, and I told so many people after I got to work with you on those baseball tonight's last fall, what a fun time I had with you in October.

I was like, you know, Hunter grinds it.

I mean, you were working. You're flying around. You're showing up to the scene, but that's what we do. And it's like there's no better time. And that was so fun to get to be a part of and to watch the games and to, you know,

tell the story of what we saw and what the teams did.

And that was a really, really fun playoffs and a great team to cover it. So thanks so much for staying in contact and pumped to be here. Yeah, and you got to work with a guy who I worked with for three years on Sunday Night Baseball, Matt Viscursion, of course, C.C. Sabathia. Tell me, I mean, what was that like,

knowing that all the baseball world had eyes on you for that game? Yeah, there was definitely a lot of pressure, you know, but pressure is kind of what you make of it. And Netflix, and don't forget Lauren Jihadi, by the way, and what an amazing job she did on the field. She was so pro and so focused.

And, you know, just get prepared and go out and give your best. It's the game that we all love. I think Lauren kind of closed it out with that. And I think that hits the nail on the head. Like, you know, C.C., I love talking baseball with C.C. and getting him up in the booth and getting kind of his pitching perspective for, you know, the Hall of Fame career that he had.

And Matt Baskersian just makes it so easy. He's so pro. Like, you honestly kind of get hypnotized by his voice. It's so good. You know, just feel like you're playing MLB the show or something. But he's just amazing. So I'm curious. what were you more nervous about your first game in the big leagues or your first broadcast on opening day? There's similar feelings. It's, you know, that whenever you care about something or something you genuinely love, and, you know, it's a performance, so to speak. Obviously, the game is the game. And you want to kind of stay out of the way of that and just share kind of your experience and what you know, what you've learned in the game. And, you know, 10, 14 years in the big leagues, but I would say my last 10 really like understanding how to prepare against pitchers. And then the last, you know, when I learned all the baseball swing mechanics and the bio mechanics and on all of that, it kind of gave me a lot of tools, so to speak, in my arsenal to really understand and break down a lot of the, not only the game that I played, because there's a lot happening

there with the chess match and approaches and stutch.

But, yeah, knowing all of that, that stuff, it kind of gives you a lot of confidence behind

it.

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