Awful Announcing Podcast

Guest host Jessica Kleinschmidt interviews ESPN MLB reporter Buster Olney. Jessica and Buster discuss a wide range of topics including the slow pace of the MLB offseason, Scott Boras taking some losses in negotiations, helping Buster Posey be more media friendly, and more.NOTE: We recorded with Buster on Friday March 22, so in between recording and posting, some details about the Shohei Ohtani/Ippei Mizuhara gambling story have been updated.For even more discussion, head over to awfulannouncing.com and follow us on Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, TikTok, Bluesky, and YouTube: @awfulannouncing.-:43: Baseball coverage changing over the years-2:26: Relationship with players changing-3:55: Clubhouse access-6:00: Waiting around-7:42: Covering Chuck Knoblauch during the "yips"-9:30: Helping Buster Posey be more media friendly-12:57: Embracing players as people in terms of social media-14:16: Benefit to players having their wall back up?-15:06: Embracing social media at the start-16:04: Do the p