Should the Astros' World Series Title Be Rescinded?
The Lead
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🗓️ 10 February 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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On Friday, there was yet another development in the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scandal. The Wall Street Journal reports that the team used a powerful algorithm called "Codebreaker" to figure out their opponent's signs. How much did the sign-stealing scheme help the Astros on the field? The Athletic's Jayson Stark and Eno Sarris recently ran the numbers to answer that question. Stark joins us to explain their findings, and to argue that despite their elaborate cheating scheme, the Astros should not have their 2017 World Series title vacated.
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| 0:00.0 | On Friday, there was yet another development in the Houston Astros' Science Stealing scandal. |
| 0:11.7 | Breaking news from the world of baseball and the Astros in regards to the cheating scandal. |
| 0:22.4 | Were the Astros practicing what they reportedly called the dark arts to steal signs? |
| 0:27.6 | And what did the former GM know? |
| 0:29.8 | Jeff Luno. |
| 0:30.8 | A new report from the Wall Street Journal says it was a lot more than he admitted. |
| 0:35.8 | According to the Wall Street Journal, the Astros were using a powerful algorithm called |
| 0:39.9 | Codebreaker to figure out other team signs beginning in the 2017 season. |
| 0:45.7 | And former General Manager Jeff Luno reportedly knew about it. |
| 0:49.9 | But we wanted to know how much did all of this, the algorithm, the video camera in the |
| 0:54.6 | outfield of their home stadium, the banging on trash cans, actually helped the Astros on |
| 1:00.5 | the field. |
| 1:01.8 | The athletics Jason Stark and Eno Seris recently ran the numbers to answer that very question. |
| 1:07.1 | Today, Jason joins us to explain their findings. |
| 1:10.5 | And to argue that despite their elaborate cheating scheme, the Astros should not have their |
| 1:15.8 | 2017 World Series title vacated. |
| 1:18.6 | And something happens. |
| 1:20.8 | We can't wave our magic wand and make it unhappened. |
| 1:28.4 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:30.7 | And I'm Anders Kelto. |
| 1:32.1 | It's Monday, February 10th, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:35.9 | It felt like something great was happening. |
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