Yes, The Astros Cheated
The Lead
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🗓️ 13 November 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A new investigation by The Athletic's Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich has revealed that the Houston Astros used a high-powered camera to steal other teams' pitching signs during the 2017 season, the year they won the World Series. Major League Baseball is now investigating the matter to determine who within the organization knew about the scheme. Rosenthal joins us to talk about their report, exactly how the Astros were cheating, and what all of this could mean for the team and the league.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to our colleagues broke some pretty big baseball news yesterday about the Houston |
| 0:10.6 | Astros stealing picture signs. |
| 0:14.8 | This whole story from the athletic today is focused on the 2017 season and accusations |
| 0:20.0 | made now by former Astros pitcher Mike Fires who was on the team. |
| 0:24.4 | Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drelick reported that the Astros used a high powered camera in |
| 0:29.2 | the outfield to record opposing team scatchers and then decoded their signals in real time. |
| 0:35.3 | This was illegal in baseball and the Astros announced today that they have begun an investigation |
| 0:39.6 | in coordination with Major League Baseball. |
| 0:43.0 | Today Ken Rosenthal joins us to talk about their exclusive report about how widespread |
| 0:48.4 | sign stealing really is in baseball. |
| 0:51.3 | And what the consequences might be for the Astros. |
| 0:54.6 | Does this taint the Astros championship? |
| 0:58.4 | From wondering in the athletic I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:01.9 | And I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:03.2 | It's Wednesday, November 13th and this is The Lead. |
| 1:07.0 | God, sucker teed off in that like he knew I was going to throw a fat one. |
| 1:10.6 | He did know. |
| 1:11.6 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:15.6 | There was just something about the emotion and the heart of the Nugel Farrow for Christmas. |
| 1:20.4 | The days of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
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