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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Buster and David Schoenfield discuss the Javier Baez thumbs down to Mets fans, how this might impact Baez in free agency, Francisco Lindor needing to mend the relationship fans, the A’s saving the season after beating the Yankees on Saturday and Sunday, Starling Marte is tearing it up since being traded to Oakland, and Salvador Perez having all-time great offensive year from a catcher. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Baseball Tonight, The Podcast.
0:11.9	This is the Baseball Tonight Podcast for Monday, August 30th, 2021.
0:17.9	Producing from his home studio in the foothills of Connecticut is Taylor Schwink.
0:21.6	I'm David Schoenfield, filling in for Buster.
0:25.3	Taylor, how you doing?
0:26.3	I just want to start off by saying I would never give you a thumbs down.
0:29.9	No matter how bad of a job you do, producing this podcast.
0:33.9	I appreciate that, David.
0:35.0	I would never give you a thumbs down for really anything.
0:37.8	I feel like we've grown close over the last two seasons.
0:40.9	We're fellow central Connecticuters, so no thumbs down on this podcast, at least for
0:45.0	those involved today.
0:46.5	No, but we did have a thumbs down situation in New York yesterday, Taylor.
0:52.6	This is the talk of Baseball.
0:54.3	I have never seen anything like this, at least not since Ted Williams raised a certain
1:00.4	digit to Red Sox fans back in the day.
1:05.6	Habier Baez, Francisco Lindor and Kevin Polar, among others, thought it would be cute
1:12.1	to give a thumbs down gesture after certain plays.
1:17.4	And after the game, Habier Baez explained this in a post-game Zoom call with reporters.
1:25.0	What is the thumbs down celebration after Big Hit Me?
1:28.0	Just the booze that we get.
1:32.4	We're not machines.
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