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The Edge: Houston Astros

Ep 5: The Storm

The Edge: Houston Astros

Audacy Studios | Ben Reiter | Prologue Projects

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports

4.8717 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The revelation of the Astros’ trash can-banging, sign-stealing scheme ignited a firestorm. Players emerged to say that they’d known the Astros had been up to something – like Danny Farquhar, a former White Sox reliever who’d been the first to detect suspiciously-timed sounds from Houston’s dugout. But the scandal really accelerated on the internet, where amateur sleuths like Tony Adams scoured video evidence to figure out what exactly the Astros had done. Adams’s work allowed statisticians to analyze the impact of the Astros’ scheme – and to arrive at some surprising conclusions. 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

As a small business owner, my favourite thing about posting a job on LinkedIn is that when I hit send, I clock out and LinkedIn clocks in.

0:07.0

LinkedIn makes it easy to post your job for free. Get qualified candidates and manage them all in one place.

0:12.9

Plus, LinkedIn extends the reach of your job posts by allowing you to share it with your network.

0:17.7

And hiring managers that add a hiring frame to their LinkedIn profiles

0:21.5

receive two times more qualified applicants. Go to LinkedIn.com slash agree to post your job

0:27.4

for free. Terms and conditions apply. I'm ready to go if you're ready, Tony. Yeah, let's go. Great.

0:33.5

I'm Tony Adams. I'm 54 years old. I live in Houston, Texas, and I'm a web developer and graphic designer.

0:40.3

So Houston, Texas, that must mean that you grew up as a fan of the Houston Astros.

0:46.3

Very much so, yes.

0:48.3

Tony Adams was born the year after the Astrodome opened and just 27 miles away, 1966 in Baytown, Texas.

0:57.8

The Astros were always going to be his team.

1:01.0

It's kind of like family. You know, you don't get to pick your family. You don't get to pick

1:04.0

your baseball team. You know, it picks you.

1:07.2

Tony will tell you that he's mostly left-brained, but he's not one of those hyper-analytical

1:12.1

people who dispassionately intellectualizes everything and moves on. He feels things strongly.

1:19.8

One of Tony's most powerful memories from his childhood is of sitting with his mother,

1:24.9

listening to the golden voice of Gene Elston,

1:28.0

as Elston called Astros Games.

1:31.0

Long after Tony's mom died in 2014,

1:34.6

a few seconds of Elston's voice would bring memories of her rushing back.

1:40.5

That home run that Cesar hit back in the fifth inning is the 11th home run that he's hit off Atlanta

1:45.8

during his major league career.

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