Ep 1: Bang Bang

The Houston Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century.
But when Ben Reiter wrote about the club for Sports Illustrated in
2014, he came to believe that they would soon be champions. In
fact, he predicted on the cover of the magazine that they would win
the 2017 World Series. Then they actually did, and Reiter wrote a
bestselling book about their novel strategies and earned a new
nickname: Astrodamus. But there was one thing Reiter hadn’t
predicted or known about, a secret that wouldn’t come to light
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