Houston’s Empire Strikes Back: World Series Preview With Jeff Passan

ESPN Daily

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🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Deep in the heart of Texas we find Jeff Passan, as the Houston Astros host Game 1 of the World Series tonight against the Atlanta Braves. For the Astros, it’s a chance for some vindication, after being baseball’s public enemy number one for their sign stealing scheme in 2017. For the Braves, it’s a chance to win their first World Series in a quarter century, and cap a stunning postseason run for a team that had the worst regular season record of any in the playoffs. Jeff Passan is in Houston, and breaks down everything you need to know for the Fall Classic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:14.3	Jeff, we've made it. We're here. The World Series is starting. And I got to admit, man,
0:20.0	like, we've been through eyepatches and plumbing emergencies
0:24.2	and Twitter doppelgangers with you.
0:26.4	I wasn't sure you were going to make it this far, to be totally frank with you.
0:30.6	I wasn't sure I was going to make it even to my hotel today
0:34.0	because people in Houston have it out for me.
0:38.1	Jeff Passen covers baseball for ESPN.
0:41.7	Like, I have gotten so many threats that if I see you, Jeff Passon, I'm going to punch you in the face.
0:52.1	And so every step I take in Houston, whether it's in the airport or downtown or otherwise,
0:58.5	Astros fans have been a frothing mob and sports talk radio in the town is fomenting it.
1:08.5	They think I hate their baseball team, which could not be further from the
1:12.8	truth. Well, Jeff, we got to clarify here, because the punchability of Jeff Passon's face,
1:17.4	I thought was a thing all of America could agree on. Very, very fair. Very fair.
1:21.0	But what you're describing, Jeff, is a scenario that I am unfamiliar with. So what have you
1:26.5	done? What is happening with you in Houston?
1:30.3	I think I told the truth.
1:32.8	And the truth about the Houston Astros hurts fans.
1:38.9	And it hurts fans, understandably,
1:41.1	because fans are rabid and fans are parochial.
1:44.1	And fans stick up for their
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