Taiwan, Gambling and "The Untruth Game" with ex-MLB pitcher Don August

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🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Former Brewers pitcher and 1984 Olympic silver medalist Don August joins Chad Millman and Sean Zerillo to tell his story about being approached by Taiwanese gangsters in the mid-1990s to throw games in an international baseball league. Don shares this harrowing experience, as well as what it was like to play in the '84 games, as he prepares his memoir for publication. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the favorites the podcast from the Action Network. I am Chad Millman. I will be joined
0:15.4	today by Sean Zorillo, our lead baseball writer, and a very special guest from
0:20.6	the baseball world with some incredible stories.
0:23.4	If anybody has been following at Don August 38 on Twitter
0:28.6	for the past few days,
0:30.0	you would have seen something very special because Don is a former Major League Baseball player who once his major league career was over
0:39.6	traveled around the world playing baseball and he has been sharing strings of stories on
0:44.8	Twitter at Don August 38 which are both frightening and hilarious and feel like
0:51.6	they are straight out of Bull Durham or Ball Four.
0:55.8	Don August is on the phone from Milwaukee discovered by our producer extraordinaire
1:01.4	Matt Mitchell also from Milwaukee.
1:04.2	Don, thanks for coming on the favorites, man.
1:05.9	How are you?
1:06.9	Doing great.
1:07.4	Thanks for that introduction.
1:08.6	Sounds good.
1:09.5	How is your quarantine going?
1:11.0	How are you spending it?
1:11.9	Are you with family? What's your
1:13.1	situation? Well I'm at home. It's just me and the wife. My son has come up to visit us
1:18.9	who's been seeing her for the last couple of weeks and you know we're making do. So I mentioned off the top you have a
1:25.3	Twitter feed at Don August 38 you started telling some stories recently
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