Watched and Relaxed: Yankees Win Biggest Series So Far; Angry Phillies Fan Goes After HR Ball; Taylor McGregor on the Cubs

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Karl Ravech and Buster hop on the Ravy Train in the absence of a Clown Car. The guys discuss the outrageous behavior of a Phillies fan in Miami, if losing Trea Turner is a fatal blow to Philadelphia’s World Series chances, a wild ending in Baltimore to celebrate Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2131 game, the Yankees winning the most important series of the season so far, Aroldis Chapman’s continued domination, and the passing of Davey Johnson. Then, Marquee Sports Network’s Taylor McGregor talks about the Cubs heading into the postseason, the Brewers not playing bad games, what’s up with Elly De La Cruz, and the AL MVP discussion that has lasted all season. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 8:14 Karl Ravech 35:35 Taylor McGregor 46:20 Sarah Langs 47:24 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Way out of here.
0:06.7	This is Baseball Tonight, the podcast.
0:11.6	This is the Baseball Tonight podcast for Monday, September 8th, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:19.3	I'm Buster Only working from my home in Montana.
0:21.7	Taylor Schwink is working from the Schwink Studios back in Connecticut.
0:25.4	And tell you know what today is?
0:27.1	What's today, Buster?
0:28.3	Tell me.
0:28.7	Today is day four of waiting for John Boy to admit a mistake.
0:33.1	Okay, we talked about this on Friday's podcast, how, you know, last week he put out some video of him and Aaron Boone talking about how it didn't pass the smell test that Eraldus Chapman's command got better after hearing a pitchcom command from Connor Wong and spring training.
0:50.7	And I, you know, related on Friday how, you know, we, the background on this,
0:55.5	Eduardo Perez talking Alex Cord, Wardo talking to Raldus Chapman, me talking to Jason Veritech,
1:02.7	and yet, John Boy, maintaining that this is not a real thing.
1:07.5	And Eduardo was overseas on vacation, but he was not happy when he heard about.
1:12.2	He texted me, why would he say that?
1:15.1	And then he related again how he heard this from Chapman.
1:18.6	And I just got to thinking about this, Taylor.
1:20.5	The next time you hear John Boy criticize a player for their responses or lack of accountability,
1:26.2	and that happens a fair amount, which is why manager Aaron Boone
1:29.1	said this on John Boy's show. You know, Weaver had a couple bad outings. The way he talked to the
1:34.0	media, it just felt honest. And it felt, and he was like,
1:36.8	different. Stop with the reaction of how a guy answers a freaking question. It's not, but it's not,
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