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Welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand,

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We are in the dead smack in the middle of the World Series as I record this, the Nationals.

I'm claiming the Nationals because I grew up in Washington, D.C. without a baseball team.

So why not? And that is totally a fair weather fan. I haven't followed the Nationals because I grew up in Washington, D.C. without a baseball team, so why not?

And that is totally a fair weather fan.

I haven't followed the Nationals.

But, yeah, I got a special guest to talk about baseball in a much more serious matter.

T.J. Quinn, the eminent sports journalist from ESPN for Outside the Lines for investigative journalism

through their enterprise unit, really had a sobering piece about Tyler Skaggs, the pitcher

for the Los Angeles Angels that died on July 1st, the wee hours from an overdose of opioids

that relates with fentanyl. We're going to talk about that.

What happened and how an Angel's employee was heavily involved and maybe others

and the DEA's involvement and all those kind of things.

And it's really a sobering story and one that sort of goes to the heart of an addiction

that may or may not have involved others in the exact same organization.

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