Short Cuts Lead to Long Cuts

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Doug Glanville and Buster discuss the Astros’ legacy after winning the 2022 World Series, the incredible postseason performance from Houston’s pitching staff, and Doug’s thoughts on Dusty Baker winning his first championship as a manager. Next, Sarah Langs stops by to talk about her post-baseball to-do list, the stat she started writing before it happened, the dominance of the Astros' bullpen and the years between championships for Baker. Then, David Schoenfield on Rob Thomson pulling Zack Wheeler early, how the Astros and Phillies move forward into the offseason, the Angels declaring they won’t trade Shohei Ohtani, and the Mets signing Edwin Diaz for five years. Later, Todd Radom delivers his thoughts on watching a World Series game in Philadelphia and administers one last quiz. Finally, the show ends with Bart Giamatti's “The Green Fields of the Mind.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:12.4	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Tuesday, November 8, 2022, and today will be better
0:19.4	than yesterday.
0:20.4	Producing from the foothills of Connecticut in the Schwank Studios' Taylor Schwank, Sarah
0:25.4	Abbott is working from the Abbott Studios in Bristol, Connecticut.
0:29.1	I'm Buster Only, working from my home in Montana.
0:32.2	Taylor, there's snow on the ground here.
0:36.0	It's officially offseason, but man, for the Houston Astros, they had one great victory
0:41.3	lap.
0:42.3	What a parade that that looked like, an amazing parade down to Houston.
0:46.3	I love a good victory parade.
0:49.2	The citizens of Houston, Texas, they showed out a million friggin' people that is something
0:54.6	else.
0:55.6	Yeah, all kinds of enthusiasm.
0:57.8	I heard that Jeremy Paine, their shortstop, about half the people holding science, saying,
1:02.6	marry me.
1:03.6	Marry me at school.
1:05.4	All the Astros players were joking about after the parade, how many proposals there were.
1:11.4	And that, of course, is because that parade came in the aftermath of this.
1:16.6	Bottom of the six inning, unsaturday night, game six of the World Series, you're done
1:21.5	Alvarez at the plate.
1:48.9	As of the dominance of the Houston bullpen, you knew after that home run that this moment
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