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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

Started to Flow: Rob Thomson Crashes Clown Car; Charlie Morton on Getting the Ball in World Series Game 7

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Phillies manager Rob Thomson hops in the Clown Car with Buster, Eduardo Pérez, David Cone and Karl Ravech to share his thoughts on Cristopher Sanchez’s performance and using Jhoan Duran in the eighth inning. Then, the guys discuss why the MVP of the weekend was Dave Dombrowski, the best team in the National League, the Marlins sweeping the Yankees, and what Eduardo sees in Agustín Ramírez’s swing. Then, Tigers pitcher Charlie Morton sits down with Buster to talk about when he realized he was going to be traded, meeting A.J. Hinch for the first time, getting the ball in Game 7s of the 2017 ALCS and World Series, and figuring out what was wrong earlier this season. Plus, Brewers manager Pat Murphy and Rockies center fielder Brenton Doyle assist in Sarah Langs’ Numbers Game. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 7:52 Clown Car 19:19 The Numbers Game 21:11 Charlie Morton 49:13 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 working from the Swink

0:22.4

studio. Is that where you are tonight, Taylor? I'm on Long Island Buster. I'll be headed

0:26.4

back to Bristol at about 7 a.m. tomorrow. Okay, but you're working late on Sunday night.

0:32.1

I'm working from my hotel room in Philadelphia. I'm going to say right now, this is going to be one of our best podcasts of the year, Taylor.

0:39.7

This was, it was so much fun stuff, capped off by one of the best Sunday night games.

0:44.9

I've been a part of the best one this year for sure.

0:48.8

And the clown car edition for today was really fun because we were walking past the Phillies clubhouse. We had

0:56.0

just started the clown car and Rob Thompson, the Phillies manager, came out. And of course,

1:01.7

Eduardo, he doesn't know the word shy, right? Immediately just like grabs Rob, grabs a phone out of

1:09.9

Tony's hand.

1:11.3

And he starts talking to Rob Thompson about what a great game it was,

1:14.7

now excellent Christopher Sanchez was,

1:17.4

and Joan Duran, the new Phillies closer,

1:21.4

and the decision to bring him in in the ninth inning for that electric entrance that he has.

1:26.6

So it was a really cool conversation there with

1:29.0

Eduardo Perez, David Cohn, Carl Ravich, and Rob Thompson joining us. We're also here from

1:35.6

Sarah Langs. And then you're going to hear from Charlie Morton, who pitched great. And Taylor,

1:41.2

I sat down with him on Saturday. Man, he is such a fun guy to talk to because his humility is so real.

1:50.6

And to the point that you'll hear in this interview, like you can tell he swam up

1:55.4

upstream against his humility for about half of his career.

1:59.9

But AJ Hanch and others convinced him of how great he could be.

2:03.8

It was a really fun conversation that I have with Charlie, and I hope you enjoy that.

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