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Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

Western Conversations

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.74.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Alden Gonzalez and Buster discuss Alden talking to Julio Rodríguez’s dad during the Home Run Derby, Aaron Boone getting chippy in his postgame press conference, the Yankees needing help at the plate, if Alden thinks Shohei Ohtani will be traded and Angels’ investment in this year’s team. The, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts stops by to talk about surprises him the most about Ohtani, the balanced schedule giving this season a different feel, updates on Clayton Kershaw and Walker Buehler, how players handle the trade deadline, and his conversations with Dusty Baker. [16:09] Alden Gonzalez [35:43] Dave Roberts [46:12] #BleacherTweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is baseball tonight, the podcast.

0:12.0

This is the baseball tonight podcast for Wednesday, July 19, 2023, and today will be better

0:18.6

than yesterday.

0:19.6

I'm Buster only working for my home in New York, Taylor Schwank is working from the

0:24.0

Swing Studios, and Sarah Abbott is working for ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut, and guys

0:29.4

before we go forward, that news would just pass, you know, with the tree falling on

0:34.8

them and he suffered the broken back, that was crazy.

0:38.0

I texted him, you know, afterward, you know, just having grown up, my brother's a logger,

0:42.7

I worked cutting down trees and splitting them, growing up.

0:46.1

Man, I mean, a broken back is a serious thing, which he suffered, it could have been a lot

0:51.3

worse.

0:52.3

Oh my God, I saw his post, first of all, legitimate thoughts and prayers out the Jeff

0:56.6

pass in his family.

0:57.6

Yes.

0:58.6

You know, I'm glad that he can still, you know, be engaged in the baseball universe, but when

1:02.5

I started reading that, I was like, is he paralyzed?

1:05.1

Like I had to read it again, just to make sure that he was actually okay.

1:09.5

And I, you know, Jeff is a friendly gentleman.

1:12.4

I texted him last week about something that I saw that he tweeted and I didn't get a

1:16.6

response back or anything else and that's unlike our guy and lo and behold, he is laid

1:21.3

up.

1:22.3

So we are hoping for the best for him and hoping that he's recovers quickly.

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