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Felger & Massarotti

September 5th – Hour 4

Felger & Massarotti

Beasley Media Group

Sports

4.1977 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In the fourth and final Hour, Felger and Mazz discussed the cheating claims against the Boston Red Sox.  Mike and Tony also continued to take calls on the Patriots and trade of Jacoby Brissett.  To wrap up the show, it’s the Final Word with Jim Murray.

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0:00.0

Yeah, yeah, yep, yep, yep, go Hess, Bo Hess, and now the end is near.

0:08.2

Boehler and Mass, 985, the Sports Hub.

0:11.7

Borderline Blockbuster by the New York Times, Red Sox, caught and admitted to cheating this season,

0:17.8

where in multiple games over multiple weeks at least that they admitted to maybe more

0:22.4

uh... they

0:23.7

basically deciphered signals catcher signals

0:28.1

using their video replay personnel who would then relay the information

0:32.2

to trainers in the dugout on their apple watches

0:35.1

who would then relay the information to the players.

0:39.5

And that's basically what happened.

0:44.8

The New York Times story says, Maz, that in recent years, as cameras have proliferated across Major League Baseball parks, teams have begun using the abundance of video to help

0:50.0

them discern opponent's signals, or signs, I should say.

0:53.3

Some clubs have had clubhouse attendance quickly relay information to the dugout from

0:58.0

a personnel monitoring video, so they would have attendants run up the hallway from where

1:03.2

the replay people are.

1:05.3

Okay, with that approach, the information has to be rushed to the dugout on foot so it

1:10.4

can be passed to the runner on second base.

1:13.1

The Red Sox seemed to shorten the communication chain and more quickly get the information to their batters

1:18.3

by sending information electronically to people in the dugout, which is a big no-no.

1:23.5

But even running it to the dugout is a no-no.

1:26.4

So basically, their video personnel would pick up the catcher signals.

1:34.6

Text the trainers in the dugout with their Apple watches.

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