SI Weekly Presents: The Extractor

Fall of a Titan

SI True Crime

Sports, True Crime

4.3 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Hi Fall of a Titan listener! We at SI are excited to share some of the best Sports + True Crime audio stories we have been working on for our podcast, Sports Illustrated Weekly. If you liked Fall of a Titan, we think these stories will be right up your alley. So give it a listen, and if you like what you hear head on over to the SI Weekly feed for more stories like this each and every week. Be sure to follow/subscribe to the show to get new episodes as they come out. Enjoy! Listen to Sports Illustrated Weekly The flight from Havana to Miami takes a mere 80 minutes, and for many Cubans, the promise of starting a new life in the US is too great to ignore. That's even more true for elite baseball players like Cesar Prieto who could make a fortune if he makes it to the big leagues. To complete his journey, Prieto would need some help, and that’s where the extractors come in. SI senior writer Greg Bishop introduces the unforgettable Jo Hastings and Billy Henderson and reveals what a defection sounds like as it happens. The Extractor on SI.com Follow @podcasts_si | @JohnGonzalez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Fall of a Titan fans, if you're looking for more sports meets true crime stories,
0:08.5	we've got something we think you might like.
0:10.6	My name is John Gonzales, host of Sports Illustrated Weekly.
0:14.4	On our podcast, we go deep into the most fascinating stories in sports like this one we're
0:18.7	about to play.
0:19.7	We'll be dropping some of our favorite true crime stories in this feed coming up, so
0:24.1	if you like what you hear, please subscribe to Sports Illustrated Weekly, available wherever
0:29.0	you listen to your favorite podcasts.
0:30.9	We'll also put a link in the description of this episode.
0:34.1	Thank you, and we hope you enjoy this story.
0:36.0	You got to ask yourself, how many times you're going to roll a dice before the dice rolling
0:46.7	on the wrong side?
0:52.3	Billy Henderson circling the Miami International Airport.
0:55.9	This little mission right here, make everything else that I ever done, like Mickey Mouse.
1:01.1	Targeting a baseball player, they're referred to him by the codename of Baby J. The initial
1:06.0	plan is to grab him at the airport.
1:11.7	It's about 12-17, they should be here any moment now.
1:19.1	Five minutes of every mission determined success or failure.
1:23.9	That is the bus, the target is over the green bus, that is it.
1:30.0	Minute four.
1:31.0	I also got my nine millimeter.
1:35.0	Okay, now we're down to three minutes.
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