The Sports Reporters - Episode 253 - NBA All-Star Break Observations. How should MLB move on from Astros cheating?

The Sports Reporters

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🗓️ 13 February 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Will the Astros cheating scandal engulf and devour the MLB season? What would make everyone feel better? How should MLB move on from the whole situation? Plus, with the acquisition of Mookie Betts and David Price, could this be the LA Dodgers best team ever? And with the NBA hitting the All-Star break the guys discuss their biggest surprises so far. And how will the scoring changes impact the All-Star game this year?

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0:00.0	Award-winning journalists, New York Times bestsellers. No topic out of bounds. No opinions left unsaid.
0:08.6	An institution for sports talk and information. This is the sports reporters.
0:14.0	Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan. I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.
0:20.1	I'm Mike Lubbuk of the New York Daily News and MLB.com.
0:23.1	I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press and welcome to the sports reporters podcast,
0:27.2	the podcast incarnation of the long-running TV show on Sunday mornings on ESPN
0:32.0	and now a twice a week podcast on Mondays and Thursdays.
0:36.4	The Houston Astros still actually going on as we're beginning this podcast, issuing, I guess,
0:45.6	an apology public for the first time with the owner Jim Crane, new manager, Dusty Baker,
0:52.0	Jose Al Tuve, and others commenting on what took place in the
0:58.3	signed stealing cheating scandal that went on.
1:02.0	Guys, I want to get your thoughts on this, particularly every quote that I read referred to
1:10.5	what happened. I want to say again how sorry our team referred to what happened.
1:11.6	I want to say again how sorry our team is for what happened, Crane said.
1:16.6	Altuve referred to what happened.
1:19.6	This wasn't what happened.
1:21.6	This was what we did.
1:23.6	You know, even the verbs being used, it's not, I'm sorry that we cheated.
1:29.8	It's, I'm sorry for what happened, as if this was some kind of like hurricane that blew in and then blew out or something like that.
1:37.2	And to me, that's still not accepting full responsibility for what they did.
1:41.2	What do you guys think?
1:42.4	Jim Crane, in the question and answer period
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