Does any stench remain from the Astros cheating scandal?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes discussed whether the Astros, who host the Cubs this weekend, still have a cloud hanging over them from their sign-stealing cheating scandal.

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0:00.0	The Cubs have a chance to play the Astros now this weekend.
0:03.3	Two first place teams.
0:04.9	Nobody seems to understand how the Astros are doing this.
0:07.3	They're on pace to win 96 games, Lawrence.
0:10.8	And they were supposed to be a third place team at best.
0:13.3	They just won 12 out of 15.
0:15.3	They're 17 and 6 in June.
0:18.1	They just swept the Phillies.
0:20.2	And the Phillies, guess how many innings of the 27
0:22.7	innings, the Phillies scored a run in that series?
0:26.1	One, right?
0:26.6	Correct.
0:27.2	One of the 27 innings.
0:29.7	That's it.
0:30.4	And it was the seventh inning, or eighth inning, I think it was, of the last games.
0:35.1	They were really close to just sweeping them out.
0:37.4	They've got a crazy good run prevention thing happening with the defense and some of the
0:44.2	starters.
0:45.3	Has Altuvei taken to left field?
0:48.2	I don't, we'll see.
0:50.2	We'll see.
0:51.1	I know that Jeremy Payne is a star at shortstop.
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