"Thank God We Got Osuna!" What One Incident Reveals About the Culture of the Houston Astros

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🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Things have not been going well for the Houston Astros in the World Series. They are down 0-2 - but all the talk has been about how they are handling a team's executive's taunting of reporters over a domestic violence issue. Baseball insider Jeff Passan explains what's really going on, and how this incident reveals much bigger truths about the Astros' culture. Could their insatiable hunger to win cost them more than a championship? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Another 2-2 in a swing in a weak round ball to Ward's third.
0:03.4	Charging Rendon fires to first in time to get Mariznick, and that's the ball game.
0:09.7	The Washington Nationals come to Houston and they take both.
0:13.8	And the nationals are going home, singing, up two games to none.
0:19.6	With game two in the books, the World Series heads to Washington.
0:22.6	But the Astros are battling more than just the nationals.
0:25.6	After Houston's assistant GM drew ire for his treatment of female reporters over a domestic violence issue,
0:31.6	the team immediately rose to his defense.
0:33.6	ESPN's Jeff Passen explains why he wasn't surprised what the Astros response says about the team's executive culture
0:40.4	and what might happen next.
0:43.1	I'm Mina Kimes.
0:44.3	It's Thursday, October 24th,
0:46.2	and this is ESPN Daily, presented by Dell Small Business.
0:54.0	Jeff, you're in Houston right now.
0:56.3	We're in the middle of the World Series,
0:58.3	but everyone's still talking about an incident
1:00.6	that happened in the Astros Clubhouse on Saturday.
1:04.5	What happened?
1:05.3	So right after the Astros clinched the American League pennant,
1:09.4	there's a huge celebration going on.
1:12.4	Let's go win the World Series.
1:15.9	And in the middle of the clubhouse
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