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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

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3.74.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Passan and Buster discuss how an exciting Puerto Rico-Dominican Republic game was dampen by Edwin Diaz injuring himself in the celebration, his impressions of the World Baseball Classic, how it impacts the Mets bullpen and MLB’s rules when signing players from Japan. Then, Todd Radom delivers the Forgotten Field and administers the weekly quiz. Next, Buster previews the Blue Jays. Later, Sarah Langs plays The Numbers Game from the WBC with an even more exuberant crowd behind her. And, Buster asks Hal Steinbrenner about when he consults with Aaron Judge.Jeff Passan and Buster discuss how an exciting Puerto Rico-Dominican Republic game was dampen by Edwin Diaz injuring himself in the celebration, his impressions of the World Baseball Classic, how it impacts the Mets bullpen and MLB’s rules when signing players from Japan. Then, Todd Radom delivers the Forgotten Field and administers the weekly quiz. Next, Buster previews the Blue Jays. Later, Sarah Langs plays The Numbers Game from the WBC with an even more exuberant crowd behind her. And, Buster asks Hal Steinbrenner about when he consults with Aaron Judge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Baseball Tonight, The Podcast.

0:12.2

This is the Baseball Tonight Podcast for Thursday, March 16, 2023, and today will be better

0:18.6

than yesterday.

0:20.0

Taylor Schwing, Sarah Abbott, Bruce Baldwin, and Working in Bristol, Umbustroly, I'm in

0:24.4

Clearwater, headed to Orioles Camp and Sarah Soto later today.

0:28.3

Guys, there's one word that can sum up the mood right now and that is bummer.

0:32.7

Wow.

0:33.7

It feels like the sport's going through depression this morning.

0:36.7

Yeah, that was a really fun atmosphere between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

0:41.8

Puerto Rico, of course, coming out on top in a couple exciting plays and gets down to

0:46.9

the celebration, Big Win, and just goes sideways.

0:51.2

I hate when you see an injury during a celebration for Edwin D.S., that's a tough one.

0:56.3

Yeah, Sarah, just texting back and forth to people all this morning about how much

1:01.9

it stinks.

1:02.9

Everyone's like poor kid, poor guy, some people relating to what the meds are going to

1:08.8

be dealing with going forward.

1:10.4

Yeah, it's just devastating to see a player get hurt in general, but especially the way

1:15.5

he got hurt is just it's heartbreaking.

1:18.5

Yeah, and we're going to be having a lot of conversation this morning about how what

1:23.0

happened last night might affect the WBC going forward.

1:26.4

To back it up a little bit, it was a pivotal game between the Dominican Republic and Puerto

1:30.6

Rico and elimination game.

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