With MLB's Future In Doubt, One Prospect's Story
The Lead
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🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Negotiations between MLB players and owners keep getting worse, and might now be past the point of no return. But last week, there was a heartwarming tale that emerged during the MLB draft. Today, as we await the fate of the 2020 season, we bring you the story of Ed Howard, one of the stars of the Little League team that won the U.S. title in 2014, only to have that title stripped away, and who has now been was drafted by a hometown Major League team.
Read James Fegan's profile of Ed Howard:
https://theathletic.com/1648837/2020/03/19/six-years-after-jackie-robinson-west-ed-howard-is-a-big-time-mlb-prospect/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:06.1 | Hello, I'm Hannah. |
| 0:08.1 | And I'm Sirete. |
| 0:09.1 | And we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked-about cases. |
| 0:16.3 | From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga. |
| 0:21.6 | Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like. |
| 0:29.6 | We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, |
| 0:33.9 | the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction. |
| 0:39.9 | Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior. |
| 0:44.8 | Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? |
| 0:47.2 | What drives a child to kill? |
| 0:49.5 | And what's the psychology of a terrorist? |
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| 1:08.4 | Negotiations between MLB players and owners keep getting worse and might be past the point of no return. |
| 1:15.1 | But there was a bright spot in last week's MLB draft. |
| 1:19.2 | Ed Howard has a chance to be a star in the fact that he's a part of that Jackie Robinson West |
| 1:24.8 | Little League and now gets a chance to be a member of the Chicago Cubs. |
| 1:28.0 | What a neat story developing there in Chicago. |
| 1:31.3 | Today as we await the fate of the 2020 season, we're looking at the story of Ed Howard. |
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