This is the Baseball Tonight Podcast for Friday, August 9, 2024 and today will be better than yesterday. I'm Buster only working for my home in Montana.

Producing from his home in Dallas, Texas, is John Landry,

who's stepping in during this episode for Taylor Shank.

And alongside him is Dan Stansick.

It was like the Stevie Williams, the former catty for Tiger Woods when Tiger was big

on this episode.

First, Stansick, how you doing?

Good, Buster, I thought you had me in here to talk about the Blue Jays in the press conference yesterday, but maybe not.

Yeah, what was that the first availability for Mark Shapiro since March?

It's been a long time and the gist of what he said

is it's the biggest gap between expectations and reality

in his nine years for the club.

Wouldn't comment on the future of Ross Atkins,

even though he did say continuity is a good thing going forward.

Said they were good, they were able to identify talent but not necessarily pitching talent,

so you know there's a ways to go.

I'm just a bitter Bluejay fan.

Glad to be here.

Living on bitter boulevard speaking of that

here's John Landry and a filling in for Taylor today in what is going to be your

last appearance in the podcast.

Yeah man I will say if you ever need an angels fan when the angels win the World Series next year to come on the podcast just let me know be there and we won't be

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