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Jeff Passan on MLB Offseason Scandals

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week, news of recently re-hired White Sox manager Tony La Russa’s second drunk driving arrest sent shockwaves through the baseball world. La Russa is among a group of MLB decision makers which includes newly rehired Red Sox manager Alex Cora, and former Astros GM AJ Hinch, who seem to be getting second chances, in spite of their past questionable actions. As we make our way through this MLB offseason, Jeff Passan joins the show to bring us the latest on the La Russa story, and also break down new Mets owner Steven Cohen’s introductory press conference. Then, Katie Barnes explains women’s college basketball prospect Azzi Fudd, and her decision to commit to UConn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This has been out there for months.

0:03.1

Jerry's Reinsdorf has known about this for months.

0:05.9

And so what he is saying by not doing anything about it is I still want him.

0:10.5

I still want Tony LaRouca.

0:12.0

And he has to listen now to the community in Chicago and find out what they are saying.

0:16.8

And I suspect a lot of them will say something like this.

0:19.8

How can he manage your team when he can't manage himself?

0:22.7

It's not the first time.

0:24.2

It's the second time.

0:30.5

We learned this week about not the first,

0:33.4

but the second trunk driving arrest for Tony Larusa,

0:36.7

the newly rehired White Sox manager at age 76.

0:41.7

MLB insider Jeff Passon broke the Larusa arrest story.

0:45.9

And today, he breaks it down alongside a flurry of other key hires that say a lot about who gets a second chance in baseball and why.

0:57.3

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Thursday, November 12th. This is ESPN Daily.

1:06.0

Jeff, before we start here, I actually do want to clarify this. Has any other Tony Larusa news broken in the last few minutes?

1:13.4

Because we're getting to the point where any number of headlines seem plausible to be.

1:19.5

So my Twitter DMs, Pablo, have been open for four years now.

1:25.4

Oh, that's dangerous.

1:27.9

Jeff Passon is an ESPN baseball insider,

1:30.7

and he has many, many, many followers on Twitter.

1:35.2

It's really dangerous.

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