The Shohei Ohtani Experience

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Passan and Buster discuss Shohei Ohtani signing with the Dodgers, if it really is a $700 million contract, how much money will be deferred, if Ohtani was going to the Dodgers all along, feeling bad for the Blue Jays, and the madness of trying to report the Ohtani story. Then, Hembo on nailing his January 2023 prediction of Ohtani’s valuation, how Ohtani has already earned some of his contract, what Ohtani’s signing means for baseball, and if Dave Roberts should bat Ohtani first on Opening Day. Later, Sarah Langs on exciting trio of Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts at the top of the Dodgers’ lineup. 5:27 Jeff Passan 33:38 Hembo 46:25 Sarah Langs 56:29 Buster & Friends on the wild weekend 1:01:39 #BleacherTweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Way out of here. This is Baseball Tonight the Podcast.
0:07.0	This is Baseball Tonight, the Podcast.
0:11.0	This is the Baseball Tonight Podcast for Monday, December 11th,
0:15.0	2003 and today will be better than yesterday.
0:19.0	I'm Buster only working for my home in Montana.
0:22.0	We have Adrian, we have Sarah, we have Taylor. Guys anything
0:26.1	happened over the weekend in baseball? I don't think so, Buster. I mean, I was sitting around,
0:31.0	I was waiting for you to tell me I was going to do an emergency
0:33.6	podcast and I never got that text so you know life went on.
0:37.0	I'm waiting a second here.
0:40.0	The way we left it was I don't know or was that the previous weekend because my read on you was
0:46.3	Let's not do a pot over the weekend. So that's why I was like okay Monday morning
0:51.0	Eight o'clock here in Montana let's do it.
0:53.4	Am I reading that right?
0:55.9	You're correct.
0:57.1	You're reading it correctly and it shows that you are a podcasting veteran because a show on
1:01.3	a Saturday night would do nothing for us so better now than then we're covering it look at you buster I love you playing program director over there
1:09.6	well and you know the good thing is by waiting until Monday,
1:13.1	it's allowed me to talk to a lot of people
1:15.6	to try to cut through the unbelievable amount of BS
1:20.0	that we've seen out there over the last four days.
1:23.0	And I'm going to say right now, I try to cut to the heart of it.
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