The Sports Reporters - Episode 255 - What is worse for MLB... The Steroid Era or Current Sign-Stealing Scandal?

The Sports Reporters

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4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The guys toss around some sports topics! Including: Is there an end in sight for baseball and the current sign-stealing scandal? Does MLB have to step in and strip the title now with all the players speaking out? Is this worse or the steroid era? Plus, John Beilein makes it a half season with the Cavs... Are coaches jumping right from college to the pros ultimately doomed? And early thoughts on the proposed changes coming to the NFL playoffs.

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0:00.0	award-winning journalists new york times bestsellers no topic out of bounds no opinions left unsaid an institution for sports talk and information this is the sports reporters here's mike lupica mitch alb and bob ryan i'm mike lupica the new york daily news and m lb dot com i'm mitch album of the detroit free press and i'm bob ryan of the New York Daily News and MLB.com. I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.
0:22.2	And I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN,
0:25.2	and we welcome you to the Thursday edition of the Sports Reporters podcast,
0:29.3	a podcast resumption of a relationship that began almost three decades ago in television,
0:35.1	and we're so pleased to be able to get the group back together
0:38.8	and toss around some sports topics.
0:42.2	And gentlemen, there is one topic that it seems to have no end.
0:46.3	It has tentacles on tentacles.
0:48.9	And the latest manifestation of this sign- scandal, in the New York Yankees
0:57.7	Clubhouse, we are informed.
0:59.6	We have an interesting circumstance in which we have very unhappy and outspoken Yankee
1:04.9	players such as Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton who are denouncing the Astros and vilifying them.
1:14.2	And by the way, in the middle of the Clubhouse is a man who played for the Astros
1:19.3	and who was going to play a prominent role for the New York Yankees, and it's kind of caught in the middle of all this.
1:23.7	Garrett Cole, who says, well, there were no cheating in 18 or 19 when I was there.
1:28.9	I don't remember anything like that. I didn't see anything like that. And other voices are saying,
1:33.4	we don't believe anything. Any Astro says, oh my God, Michael, that's your bellywick. What do we make of all this?
1:39.6	Well, it's interesting. I mean, I'll start with the last thing you mentioned bob it is interesting because
1:46.0	they're paying the man what three hundred twenty four million dollars that they've elected to give
1:50.4	garret cole a complete pass on this where you know other astros who are on other teams now
1:57.2	i've taken responsibility he says well i'm pitcher. Well, do any of us having this
2:03.0	conversation today believe that Garrett Cole was unaware of what? Before I finish my answer,
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