BLACK SOX Ep. 4 | "The Fix"

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, History

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The World Series plays out as rumors of a conspiracy run wild through the inner circles of baseball. Suspicion rises. Tension builds in the White Sox clubhouse. The gamblers double cross the players. The players double cross the gamblers. In the end, no one wins. Special thanks to the SABR Black Sox Scandal Research Committee for assistance in this production. For more details, visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Social media: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Fancy a fever tree and vodka.
0:04.0	Yes, vodka, not gin, because this is
0:07.4	fever tree Mexican lime soda.
0:10.0	Yes, soda, not tonic.
0:13.0	With Mexican lime and Japanese
0:14.7	Yuzu for a zesty, refreshing lime
0:17.0	soda, that's just sweet enough.
0:19.5	Delicious with vodka or on its own.
0:23.0	Fever tree Mexican lime soda,
0:25.4	mixed with the best.
0:27.5	Mmm, now that hits the spot.
0:40.5	Sleepy Bill Burns and Billy Maharag were broke.
0:43.5	They were busted.
0:45.5	They were wiped out.
0:47.5	They'd worked like crazy to find the money to pay a group of white socks players to lose
0:51.5	the World Series, but now it had all backfired.
0:54.5	And the worst part was, the teams had only played three games.
0:58.5	Just one-third of the way through the series, the fix was unraveling, the players were
1:04.0	furious, and both sides felt double crossed.
1:07.5	With all the animosity and backstabbing, there was no way to predict what would happen next.
1:13.5	What happened next, and what happened in the first three games, would be
1:18.5	analyzed and scrutinized for the next 100 years.
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