The Curse of Busta

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Karl Ravech and Buster discuss the Astros’ confidence, the Yankees taking a new book off the shelf, waiver claim chaos and the White Sox hiring Chris Getz to run the team. Then, Guardians president of baseball ops Chris Antonetti talks about picking up three former Angel pitchers off the waiver wire, his thought process behind the additions, what he sees in Lucas Giolito, how he feels about teams dumping players to save money at the end of the season, the waiver wire rules and what he sees in his team with a month left to play. Later, Sarah Langs on the NL MVP race playing out in real-time with the Braves playing the Dodgers, and the tight AL West race. Plus, Todd Radom shares the Forgotten Field and administers the weekly quiz. [7:17] Karl Ravech [33:11] Chris Antonetti [43:49] Sarah Langs [55:35] Todd Radom [1:08:18] #BleacherTweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:11.8	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Friday, September 1, 2023, and today will be better
0:18.0	than yesterday.
0:19.0	Taylor Schwenke is working back in the Schwenke Studios, Sarah Abbott has been off all this
0:23.6	week.
0:24.6	I'm Buster only working from my home in Montana.
0:26.7	Taylor, what do you think of the waver cast that played out on Thursday?
0:31.4	You know, we're going to get into a deep discussion on it today.
0:35.0	I see both sides of it, you know, I don't like an owner, you know, trying to save every
0:41.4	nickel he can because that's annoying to me, but I also kind of like that, you know,
0:45.6	the Guardians and the Reds and the Brewers kind of spice in their teams up this late in
0:49.4	the season.
0:50.4	I feel like that's fun for fans, so I hate to be annoyingly neutral about it, but that's
0:53.8	where I am.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:55.6	On one hand, you have an owner getting rewarded for having a late season temper tantrum,
1:00.4	Arty Moreno, the Angels, and dumping a quarter of his roster.
1:03.6	And on the other hand, you do like the fact that the Guardians and the Reds were aggressive.
1:08.2	As you said, we're going to be talking about it today, not only with Carl Ravich, but
1:12.0	with Sarah Langs, and we're also going to be speaking with Chris Hantanetti, who's the
1:16.0	President of Baseball Operations for the Cleveland Guardians about what was behind their decision
1:21.1	to take on three pictures, Lucas T. Alito, among those Matt Moore, Reliever, Ronaldo, Lopez,
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