MLB First Half: Astros Ascend, deGrom Dominates, Ohtani Is Otherworldly
The Lead
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3.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Major League Baseball has arrived at the All-Star break, and during the first half of the season, no player has put on a more amazing all-around show than Angels slugger/ace Shohei Ohtani. Today, The Athletic’s Joe Posnanski joins us to break down some of the season’s biggest story lines, including Ohtani’s superhuman feats, Jacob deGrom’s brilliance, the return to dominance of baseball’s most controversial team — the Houston Astros — and whether MLB is finally getting its sticky substance problem under control.
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| 0:46.0 | Hey everyone, before we start today's episode, we just wanted to give the latest news on the arrests and weapons seizure |
| 1:00.0 | that happened this weekend at a hotel in Denver, just a block from Course Field where this week's MLB All-Star game is being held. |
| 1:06.0 | On Sunday, multiple news outlets reported that four people had been arrested after a hotel worker spotted a gun in a hotel room. |
| 1:14.0 | Authorities say they arrested four suspects all in their 40s who had more than a dozen long guns body armor |
| 1:20.0 | and more than a thousand rounds of ammunition on the eighth floor of the Maven hotel in downtown Denver. |
| 1:25.0 | And according to our affiliate KMGH, one of the suspects recently got divorced and said, |
| 1:30.0 | quote, he wanted to go out in a big way. |
| 1:32.0 | There was concern about the fact that the hotel was located so close to the stadium and speculation that perhaps there could have been a plan to target the MLB All-Star game. |
| 1:41.0 | But not long after those reports, the FBI's Denver Field Office put out a statement on Twitter saying, quote, |
| 1:46.0 | we have no reason to believe this incident was connected to terrorism or a threat directed at the All-Star game. |
| 1:51.0 | We are not aware of any threat to the All-Star game events, venues, players, or the community at this time. |
| 1:57.0 | So the plan as of Sunday night is to proceed with the game and the festivities as planned. |
| 2:02.0 | And on that note, let's move on to today's episode. |
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