The Red Sox Fall Guy
The Lead
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🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Last week, Major League Baseball handed down its punishment to the Red Sox for using video replay to steal signs. Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of The Athletic broke the news about the Red Sox back in January. Today, Ken joins us to discuss the details of the punishment, the replay operator who ended up as Boston's fall guy, and whether Major League Baseball got this whole thing right.
Read Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich's reporting on the Red Sox: https://theathletic.com/1767946/2020/04/23/rosenthal-and-drellich-mlbs-red-sox-report-is-finished-but-plenty-of-questions-remain/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:00.0 | last week the Boston Red Sox were back in the news. |
| 0:08.8 | For Major League Baseball on a random Wednesday 24 hours before the NFL draft, they have handed |
| 0:16.9 | down the punishment to the Boston Red Sox for their role in a 2018 potential sign stealing |
| 0:24.8 | scandal. |
| 0:26.4 | Keteros and Thalon, Evan Drelick of the Athletic First Broke the news about the Red Sox |
| 0:30.3 | cheating back in January. Today Ken joins us to discuss the details of this punishment, |
| 0:35.4 | the replay operator who ended up as the fall guy, and whether Major League Baseball got it right. |
| 0:41.2 | In the past Baseball had said, we are going to hold managers and GMs responsible for any |
| 0:47.6 | misconduct of this nature, and in this particular decision they shifted course. |
| 0:56.5 | From wondering in the athletic, I'm Keteros and I'm Anders Keltov. It's Tuesday, April 28th, and this is the lead. |
| 1:07.0 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:11.0 | There was just something about the emotion and the moment. |
| 1:13.8 | No, the first, the first. |
| 1:15.4 | The first and the past don't matter because we've got this stuff. |
| 1:18.0 | You can't wait to see anything like that. |
| 1:20.2 | That's not good. |
| 1:21.2 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in your home. |
| 1:25.4 | It stays with you. |
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| 1:40.3 | In a four-part series, the Generation Y podcast unravels the story of Khalif Browder, |
| 1:45.4 | a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held it Recker's Island for three years |
| 1:51.2 | without trial. This is a story about a young life caught in the middle of the justice system. |
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