The Fantasy Baseball Player Who Accidentally Forced The Yankees' Hand
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🗓️ 27 April 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
For weeks now, we've been hearing a lot about the supposedly scandalous 'Yankee Letter' -- sent by MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred to the New York Yankees back in 2017, and related to possible sign stealing violations. But now that the contents of that letter have come to light (as of Tuesday), it's clear that the story behind the letter is more interesting than the letter itself. Today, we dive into that story, which involves an unlikely lawsuit filed by a fantasy baseball player -- a case that unintentionally set off a media firestorm directed at the Yankees. Then, Maggie Gray of CBS Sports Radio joins us to discuss the contents of the letter and what all of this means for the Bronx Bombers.
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| 0:40.8 | We've heard for weeks and weeks about this letter. |
| 0:44.2 | This letter that the Yankees were fighting to, we can't have this be public. |
| 0:48.3 | Well, now it's public. |
| 0:50.0 | I've read the letter. |
| 0:51.6 | Yeah, nothing. |
| 0:54.9 | For the past few weeks, the baseball world has been buzzing about the Yankee letter. |
| 0:59.7 | A letter sent from MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred to the New York Yankees back in 2017, about |
| 1:05.4 | possible sign stealing violations. |
| 1:08.3 | And on Tuesday, we finally found out what it contained. |
| 1:11.9 | Now, it does not implicate the Yankees in the sign stealing scheme similar to the one |
| 1:17.0 | for which the Houston Astros were punished, but it does reveal that the club used the |
| 1:22.2 | video replay room in 2015 and 2016 to decode signed sequences and pass them to a runner-on |
| 1:30.0 | second who would relay them to the batter. |
| 1:33.7 | But Lost in the Shuffle has been arguably a more interesting story, the story of why the |
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