Ep 3: Smart Guys

One of baseball’s unofficial slogans? “If you’re not cheating,
you’re not trying.” Baseball's history of sign stealing is almost
as old as the sport itself. Players have always gone to great
lengths to decipher the non-verbal signals that opponents use to
communicate on the field: using buried buzzers, military-grade
telescopes, even cameras. In 2017, a respected veteran named Carlos
Beltran joined the Houston Astros. Aided by the powerful, and
largely unregulated, new technologies he had at his disposal,
Beltran led the Astros to their long awaited championship – even as
defeated rivals, like the Dodgers’ Chase Utley, harbored suspicions
about how they’d done it.  To learn more about listener data
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