The Athletic’s Jim Bowden | The Email Bit | The Stack - 2/18 (Hour 4)
Toucher & Hardy
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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(00:00) Jim Bowden from the Athletic joined the show to talk about MLB.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh boy. I guess it's time for more Toucher and Hardy on 985 The Sports Lab. |
| 0:08.3 | Jim Bowden is a for, is a Rollins College guy, is a former MLBGM and current MOB analyst for CBS Sports and the Athletic. |
| 0:17.7 | I read him all the time. He is one of my bookmarked writers. I read everything he does. |
| 0:24.4 | He does. It's great to see him. I don't, I don't care about that. Oh, sorry. I only |
| 0:28.3 | care about real life baseball. I'm a real man. Jim Bowden. Hello, sir. |
| 0:35.9 | Hello, guys. How's the sports sub this morning? |
| 0:38.4 | Oh, we couldn't be firing on more cylinders right now, my friend. |
| 0:42.4 | I love it. We are on our A game. |
| 0:44.5 | Looking for you to save us here. |
| 0:46.0 | No, stop that, Jonathan. Don't make him think this isn't a good show. |
| 0:49.6 | Jim, the last time we had you on, and I do really read you all the time. I think you're the best. I actually think you're the best national |
| 0:56.1 | baseball writer. But |
| 0:57.5 | we had John after the Devers trade. |
| 1:01.5 | You didn't like it then. How's it looking now? |
| 1:04.9 | You know, it's funny. I was telling someone the other day, |
| 1:07.5 | I said, can you imagine trading mooky |
| 1:10.2 | bets and trading Raphael Devers |
| 1:12.7 | and the only guy you have left is Jose Bejo for him? Like what? How does that happen? Yeah, I mean, |
| 1:20.5 | look, what would this Red Sox team right now look like with Devers on it? Completely different. |
| 1:25.8 | It's the one big missing point player that this team needs. So, yeah, I didn't like it then. I don't like it now. I love Raphael Devers bat. It's really hard to come by. And when you look at this Boston lineup, that's what they're missing. The one guy that can carry you when a team goes into a slump so yeah i hated it then i hated the betts trade |
| 1:45.7 | i hated the devours trade i hated the reggie smith trade yes i go all the way back to then yeah |
| 1:51.6 | and so bregman was the reason that all the discord with um with with with uh devra started and now he's |
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