Astros Scandal: MLB's Nightmare Continues

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🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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As baseball's latest scandal continues to unfold, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and others are coming under more fire. Criticism has grown around whether the Houston Astros' players deserved more blame and punishment for the sign stealing scheme, and how much it helped the team win the 2017 World Series. ESPN's Buster Olney breaks down the latest developments, as 2019 champs the Nationals face the Astros in a spring training game this weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What are your thoughts on what the Astros did yesterday?
0:05.0	You know, I thought the apologies were whatever.
0:08.0	I thought Jim Cranes was weak.
0:11.0	I thought Manfred's punishment was weak, giving him immunity.
0:17.0	I mean, these guys were cheating for three years.
0:20.0	Everyone knows they stole the ring from us. I mean, these guys were cheating for three years.
0:22.6	Everyone knows they stole the ring from us.
0:31.3	That was the reigning National League MVP, Cody Bellinger, doing what everyone in baseball has done this week.
0:35.5	T-off on the Houston Astros and Commissioner Rob Manfred.
0:41.9	As Manfred faces questions over whether he should have done more to punish the team, Spring training games are beginning, and all eyes are on Houston.
0:46.6	Can the commissioner contain a scandal that seems like it'll never end?
0:50.6	Or will the players take things into their own hands?
0:57.4	I'm Minakimes. It's Friday, February 21st.
1:01.1	This is ESPN Daily, presented by ADT.
1:07.0	How is Ford Myers?
1:08.2	Hot.
1:13.1	Buster Only writes about baseball for ESPN and is in Florida covering spring training. If you've been up in the northeast all winter and you're used to 30 degrees to come
1:17.7	down here in the first days of spring and you're already getting 7580 and muggy, it's very different,
1:23.4	but, you know, hot not only with the weather, but also with the players.
1:26.8	Ooh. Well, let's with the players. Ooh.
1:29.8	Well, let's get into that.
1:35.2	Buster, you've been covering baseball a long time.
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