Another bonus episode, guys, we were so lucky to have a chance to sit down with Evandrelich,

who wrote the book, Winning Fixes Everything. That's the book that we read for the Astros episode,

McKinsey Strikes Out. Evan Trellich is a senior writer for The Athletic. He broke the story of the

Houston Astros cheating scandal alongside his colleague Ken Rosenthal. He covered the Astros for the Houston Chronicle from 2013 to 2016.

He grew up in New York City and he attended the real BU Binghamton University, the

premier public university in the Northeast.

He now lives in Queens.

Okay, here's our interview with Evan.

Speed.

Welcome back to another episode of the corporate gossip podcast, a special bonus episode.

My name is Becca Platsky. I'm CPA Scorned and the host of the corporate gossip podcast.

I'm here with my co-host and my brother.

Data Analytics Playboy Adam Platsky.

And we're here with a very special guest.

He is the author of the book that we read for our Astros podcast. Winning fixes everything, Evangeloic. Thanks, guys. So let's dive into it. You ready? Sure. So at the end of all of our episodes, we call out the heroes. And often those heroes are journalists and whistleblowers. And this case was no different. You, along with your reporting partner and Mike Fires, were the ones that were brave enough to call out a turd, even though that turd was painted in gold. And the immediate impacts of your reporting were clear in the aftermath of the cheating scandals and the rules changes.

But now that it's been a few years, I'm curious if you've seen any other like long-term impact of your work,

like on the culture of the clubhouses, the controls in place at the commissioner level.

Yeah, I mean, you know, they changed the pitch calling system.

Besides the playing rules element of it, which is significant.

I do think there might be a little more cognizance in front offices of how they're treating people,

maybe of the culture that they're building. I don't want to go too far with that and say that they're all enlightened now

and are putting human

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