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Today I'm joined by Stephanie Abstein of Sports Illustrated. She was one of the writers on a story that came out a few days ago,

blowing the lid off the pitcher substance abuse, not PEDs, but maybe it should be considered

that actual sticky stuff on the baseball. Stephanie, thanks so much for joining me.

Thanks a lot for having me.

I was just saying before we press record,

it seems like there's a story like this every baseball season

that talks about something that shouldn't be happening

in the game of baseball.

This year, it's the pitchers using illegal substances to doctor the baseball.

Of course, there was the Astros scandal at the end of 2019. PEDs back in the 90s, but this seems

like that might be that story for 2021. So I guess congratulations on breaking that story.

Yeah, this is definitely what everybody in the sport is talking about right now, I think.

Yeah, a couple quotes from the article, it did equate it to steroids,

it being that much of an advantage for players. Do you agree with that?

I think that there are good parallels to Star-Rides.

I think in the way that it provides an advantage, in the way that it's sort of a slippery

slope that you, like, you can get into it sort of slowly doing something that's only,

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