The Red Sox Cheated, Too
The Lead
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🗓️ 8 January 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
An exclusive report from The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich reveals that the Boston Red Sox used video replay rooms to steal pitchers signs during the 2018 season, the year the team last won the World Series. Three people who were with the organization in 2018 told The Athletic that players would visit the replay room during games, learn signs and communicate them to batters at the plate through some intricate foot signals from runners on base. Since the story was published Major League Baseball announced it is launching an investigation into the Red Sox conduct.
You can read Rosenthal and Drellich's story here:
https://theathletic.com/1510673/2020/01/07/mlbs-sign-stealing-controversy-broadens-sources-say-the-red-sox-used-video-replay-room-illegally-in-2018/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:00.0 | Yesterday, Major League Baseball's Seine Stealing Controversy took another dramatic turn. |
| 0:12.0 | First the Astros, now the Red Sox, two World Series champions accused of using video to steal |
| 0:19.1 | signs. |
| 0:20.1 | What is going on? |
| 0:21.3 | An investigation by the athletics Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drelick found that the Red Sox used |
| 0:26.8 | video replay rooms to steal signs from opposing teams during the 2018 season, the year they |
| 0:33.5 | won the World Series. |
| 0:35.3 | Ken Rosenthal joins us today to discuss what exactly the Red Sox were doing and what |
| 0:40.0 | the consequences might be. |
| 0:44.2 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 0:46.8 | And I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 0:48.3 | It's Wednesday, January 8th, and this is The League. |
| 0:51.9 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 0:55.9 | There was just something about the emotion and the heart of the team. |
| 1:00.9 | The days of the past don't matter because we've got this. |
| 1:03.9 | You can't see anything like that. |
| 1:06.9 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
| 1:11.1 | It stays with you. |
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| 1:23.3 | Download the app today. |
| 1:25.3 | Hello, I'm Hannah. |
| 1:26.5 | And I'm Sirete. |
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