Ep 2: Stargazers

The Edge: Houston Astros

Audacy Studios | Ben Reiter | Prologue Projects

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports

4.8 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Houston’s first great sports innovator was named Judge Roy Hofheinz. He brought the Astros to town in the 1960s with the promise of what would become known as the Eighth Wonder of the World: the Astrodome, the first ever domed stadium. But there was one thing the Judge couldn’t build: a championship team. That task fell to Hofheinz’s modern successor, Jeff Luhnow, who applied the disruptive, data-driven techniques he’d learned in the business and tech worlds… with controversial results. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am surprised that when you wrote your book, you didn't call me because I could have helped you.
0:08.4	This is Dave Trembly. He was hired by the Astros as the third base coach for the 2013 season.
0:15.3	I'm not the only journalist who's disappointed him.
0:18.7	I was waiting and waiting when this thing came out with the Astros.
0:24.0	I said, somebody's going to call me.
0:25.7	Somebody's going to figure it out and know that I'm a decent guy and I have no problem
0:31.1	talking to people and being honest.
0:33.5	Somebody's going to call me.
0:35.1	Trembly was hoping to get a call about the Astros because he has some strong opinions about them.
0:40.9	And he certainly has opinions about his boss in Houston, Jeff Luno.
0:45.4	Had you ever been around anybody like him in baseball?
0:48.4	Never. Never. Never.
0:52.1	Mm-mm.
0:56.2	By the time he'd joined the Astros, Trembly'd had a lot of jobs in baseball.
1:00.7	A scout, a minor league manager, even the manager of the Baltimore Orioles.
1:05.9	He'd spent nearly three decades working in the game.
1:09.0	You know, at that point, time I was in my 60s and then
1:11.6	eating more damn peanut butter and jelly sandwiches,
1:14.6	ridden more damn buses than he could ever shake a stick at.
1:18.6	He'd worked with hundreds of players, coaches, and executives.
1:22.6	But he'd never encountered anyone remotely like Jeff Luno.
1:26.6	Look like a Wall Street guy.
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