Winning Name: Mariners’ Cal Raleigh on His Home Run Derby Interest; Jesse Rogers on Tarik Skubal Going for 9; Tim Kurkjian on Roman Anthony’s Debut

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Jesse Rogers and Buster discuss Andrew Abbott’s complete game, Tarik Skubal training to throw a full nine innings, the Padres being unafraid of the Dodgers, and Javier Baez’s revival. Then, Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh talks about possibly participating in the Home Run Derby, which hitter he likes to talk trash with, managing his workload, and Seattle’s pitching staff. Later, Tim Kurkjian on getting a new puppy, another highlight catch from Denzel Clarke, teams that are improving and Roman Anthony debuting for the Red Sox. CALL THE SHOW: 406-404-8460 EMAIL THE SHOW: [email protected] REACH OUT ON X: #BLEACHERTWEETS 8:25 Jesse Rogers 21:38 Cal Raleigh 33:39 Tim Kurkjian 53:52 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	way out of here
0:05.5	this is baseball tonight the podcast
0:09.7	this is a baseball tonight podcast for Wednesday,
0:15.0	June 11, 2025, and today will be better than yesterday.
0:19.2	I'm Buster Only working from my home in Montana.
0:21.6	Taylor Schwink is working from the bowels of ESPN.
0:25.8	Taylor.
0:26.8	Yeah, Buster.
0:27.5	We're, uh, you know,
0:28.3	we're in the office for some meetings and, uh,
0:30.7	sometimes it's hard to find a quiet spot here at ESPN.
0:33.3	So I've got a super secret spot that my buddy Jackson occupies sometimes. He's on the road right now. So here I am. I won't give it up, though. It's, you know, real estate is precious over here. Well, you know, it's a secret spot, but you told me where it was. And it's a place where I spent a lot of time in my time at ESPN. So I'm not allowed to talk about it out loud. I guess you can. We're right near the old baseball tonight studio, which is pretty cool, right? It's been a lot of
0:58.4	nights there with, you know, the likes of Eric Young and Steve Berthewm and Tim Kirchin and Pearl
1:05.4	Ravich. I love that place. Yeah, you can still see the floors. They're doing something to
1:10.6	it right now. I can't say what, but you can still see the floors. They're doing something to it right now.
1:11.0	I can't say what, but you can still see the green floors, which is cool.
1:14.2	Very nice.
1:15.3	Today, we're going to find that.
1:16.5	Tim Kirchon has a new puppy.
1:18.5	When we talked to him earlier today, Taylor, we found out that his grandkids are getting a new puppy,
1:25.4	and they're going to name it, and I think I may have inspired the winning name.
1:28.8	What do you think?
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