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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

To Blame: Mets' Twin Wins; Phillies Slide On; Elly De La Cruz Leap Year; New Yankee Unis?

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

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3.7 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The streak is dead! The Mets win two in a row over the Minnesota Twins. Buster Olney and Hembo discuss the Mets’ playoff chances, Buster’s wacky trade idea for Philadelphia, the Phillies’ hilariously thin lineup, the Padres’ sale price, Elly De La Cruz beginning to break out, and why the Athletics should lock up Shea Langeliers. Then, Todd Radom talks about Yankee players pushing for alternate road uniforms, and the Royals drawing new plans for a stadium in Crown Center. Later, Sarah Langs plays The Numbers Game. Plus, Buster answers your questions during Bleacher Tweets. 0:00 Hembo joins the show 1:00 Mets breaking losing streak 9:14 Phillies lose ninth straight 14:37 Should Philadelphia trade for Alex Cora? 17:50 Reds Elly De La Cruz leap year 20:16 Takeaways from Padres sale 25:51 Athletics should lock up Shea Langelier’s 27:53 Todd Radom joins the show 28:18 Yankee players want alternative road uniforms  29:43 Royals move downtown 31:37 Quiz 33:58 Sarah Langs plays The Numbers Game 35:11 Bleacher Tweets CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: BleacherTweets@gmail.com REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS Follow The Baseball Tonight Podcast on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHeL6O-A-ASmSMwbSCFvPKEq1Cslo_lrw Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FG6xCcd338SgZjZ9urHRI Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-tonight-with-buster-olney/id137699414 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Friday, April 24th, 2006, and today will be better than yesterday. I'm Buster Only, working from my home in Montana, Taylor-Schwing, is back in Bristol, and today on the podcast, we're going to have Paul M. Bikidis. We've got a couple other guests. We're not sure if they're going to join us or not. We're waiting to hear back from some teams, but Hembo, I'm glad to get you,

0:54.6

okay? The other day, we had Pete McComville on, you know, the rabid, really heartbroken Mets fan,

1:02.6

and the way we wanted of introducing him was he's Hembo's boss. That's how we, that's what we settled on.

1:09.6

We thought that was easier than vice president of whatever he is.

1:13.1

Yes, a highly appropriate way to introduce Pete McConville. He is a VP. I am very much not either of those

1:20.5

letters. It goes without saying. I am a mere researcher here looking Buster to talk some positively,

1:25.7

I guess, about my favorite baseball team, the Philadelphia Phillies that, as we record here on Thursday afternoon, haven't won a game since the last time you and I spoke a week ago. So, look, he's representing the Mets. I suppose in some sense I and Kevin Gandhi earlier this week are representing the Phillies, and we aren't doing a whole lot of winning these days. And although I don't love talking about it or thinking about it, I do have some rage bait for my fellow Philly fans to get to. Okay. Before that, though, the Mets actually did win. On Wednesday night, they found a way to win. Luke Weaver was the guy on the mound. And after the game, he talked with our friend, Steve Gelbs of SNY. Give a listen to Luke Weaver after the game last night. Luke, been a long time coming.

2:08.0

What are the emotions, not just for yourself but for this team, finally getting over the hump

2:13.1

tonight? A little bit of relief. Look, this wasn't about attitude, this wasn't about word that thick, this wasn't about a bad demeanor, there was none of that.

2:24.3

It's about just showing up every day, giving you something to cheer about.

2:28.3

And thankfully today we freaking did that, all right?

2:31.3

And you finished it off with a flurry.

2:36.0

One in a third, three strikeouts, including that last one against a red hot Byron

2:40.2

Buxton.

2:41.1

You could have pitched around him, you decided to go right after him.

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