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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Hembo and Buster discuss Craig Counsell’s record-setting deal, how to calculate the value of managers, if Counsell’s contract will be a watershed moment for managers, and if the Brewers will go into tank mode. Then, Eduardo Pérez talks about Cubs-Rangers Opening Day on ESPN, and all of the other manager moves this offseason. Later, Sarah Langs on watching Titans of the Caribbean at Citi Field, both Rookies of the Year winning unanimously, and her predictions for Manger of the Year. 4:54 Hembo 19:20 Eduardo Pérez 37:58 Sarah Langs 46:11 #BleacherTweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the baseball tonight Podcast for Tuesday, November 14th,
0:15.0	2023 and today will be better than yesterday.
0:19.0	I'm Buster Only working from my home in Montana.
0:21.0	Sarah Abbott, Taylor Swank, Parker Owens are back east.
0:25.0	Guys, we got done taping the podcast last week and it was what, within a day we get
0:30.9	this shocking news about Craig Council taking over as manager of the Chicago
0:37.5	Cubs, our friend David Ross forced out, let go. You know Taylor I'll start with you what do you think of all that?
0:43.7	It's completely shocking you know it was like is he gonna basically like is he gonna
0:48.5	stay with the Mets or is he gonna is gonna go to the Mets or stay with the Brewers
0:51.6	those were kind of the two options.
0:53.7	The Cubs completely out of nowhere.
0:55.7	And with the Cubs, it's always been like,
0:57.8	are they all in?
0:58.8	Are they rebuilding?
1:00.1	Are they teetering?
1:00.8	I feel like this is a sign that they're all in. They're ready to boogie yeah Sarah they gave him five years and
1:06.5	forty million dollars in a package which by the way is thirty five million dollars less or or so than what Jimbo Fisher got paid off right I mean
1:18.1	think about that in terms of what managers are valued what do you think when you
1:21.2	heard the news shocking and also I love drama so this is very drama filled and I mean I love it.
1:28.0	Parker what do you got?
1:30.0	Great move by the Cobes to improve their organization really quickly.
1:34.3	Yeah, and that's what Jed Hoyer's explanation was when he met with reporters.
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