Something is Askew: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is a Blue Jay for Life; Pete Alonso on a Tear; Is the Dodgers Defense Championship Caliber?

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Hembo and Buster discuss the Marlins infield getting weird, Pete Alonso looking much more comfortable, how Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s contract impacts Kyle Tucker’s future earnings, if Hunter Greene is becoming an ace, potential superstardom for Kristian Campbell, and buying stock on Jacob Wilson. Then, Tim Kurkjian talks about the Blue Jays waving the white flag to Vlad Jr. and why they had to do it, problems with the Dodger defense, and the craziest stories he and Buster have ever covered. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 6:37 Hembo 29:39 Tim Kurkjian 50:01 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	way out of here this is baseball tonight the podcast this is the baseball tonight
0:13.5	podcast for wednesday april night 2005 and today will be better than yesterday
0:19.2	a buster only working for my home in Montana, which Taylor feels like,
0:23.8	and Taylor Swink is working from the Schwink Studios back in Connecticut.
0:27.1	But here in Montana, it feels balmy compared to what I'm seeing in some of these games.
0:32.4	Fenway Park last night, third lowest temperature for any game in the history of that ballpark. I guess the real
0:39.2	feel was like 28 degrees. I mean, it's crazy how cold some of these games have been. I saw
0:45.5	flurries yesterday, Buster. It was, uh, you know, April 8th and there were flurries going on.
0:50.2	It was definitely, I woke up those 20 degrees here. I've been watching these, the Yankee Tiger
0:54.8	games in the middle of the day. Frid. Fridget out there. Poor Michael Kay eating his chicken
0:59.2	tenders. He's so cold. We have to find out, too. They were saying that that has not been deemed a
1:05.7	snow game, and I'm watching it, and it's snowing. Like, I'm like, what qualifies it to be a snow game?
1:12.3	Either way, it's really cold in a lot of other places and it's about 40 degrees here on
1:17.1	Wednesday morning in Bozeman.
1:19.4	So I don't get it.
1:21.7	It was really cold.
1:23.1	The Cardinals playing the Pirates in Pittsburgh.
1:26.7	And maybe that affected Paul Skeens,
1:28.5	who had the worst outing of his career.
1:30.9	Skeens checks the runner at second base,
1:32.7	now delivers home,
1:33.8	and that's it sharply into right center field.
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