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11.11.2020
1 Stunde 3 Minuten
In the conclusion of our series finale, the Astros return for the
2020 season as the villains of baseball – without their fired G.M.
Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch. Meanwhile, skepticism rages
about whether justice was served. Other developments in baseball
raise questions about who really loses – and who wins – in a
world where everyone is seeking an edge. To learn more about
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04.11.2020
51 Minuten
After an intensive investigation, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred
issued his report about the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal and
punishments for some of its key figures. G.M. Jeff Luhnow and
manager A.J. Hinch received year-long suspensions, and were quickly
fired by the Astros. But did the right people face consequences? In
part 1 of our season finale, Luhnow breaks his silence about who
knew what and when they knew it - and reveals that the
Astros’ scheme extended beyond trash can banging. To learn more
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28.10.2020
49 Minuten
The revelation of the Astros’ trash can-banging, sign-stealing
scheme ignited a firestorm. Players emerged to say that they’d
known the Astros had been up to something – like Danny Farquhar, a
former White Sox reliever who’d been the first to detect
suspiciously-timed sounds from Houston’s dugout. But the scandal
really accelerated on the internet, where amateur sleuths like Tony
Adams scoured video evidence to figure out what exactly the Astros
had done. Adams’s work allowed statisticians to analyze the impact
of the Astros’ scheme – and to arrive at some surprising
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21.10.2020
52 Minuten
The 2018 Astros were even more talented than the previous season’s
champions. There was just one problem: they couldn’t count on their
closer. The good news? There was a great one, named Roberto Osuna,
available on the trade market – but Osuna had been suspended for
allegedly assaulting his girlfriend. While many clubs wouldn’t even
consider bringing him on, Jeff Luhnow’s Astros swooped in. It was
the moment when many realized just how far the Astros would go to
find a winning edge. And it was a seed that would metastasize into
something deeply destructive: a shocking clubhouse incident that
made the formerly lovable underdogs a target to be taken down. To
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14.10.2020
45 Minuten
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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The Edge follows best-selling Astroball author Ben Reiter as he
investigates the cheating scandal that tarnished the Houston
Astros’ World Series 2017 win. Through original interviews with key
figures in the scandal, Reiter gets to the bottom of what happened,
who’s to blame, and why the scandal enraged the sports world more
than any other in recent memory. He also answers the biggest
question of all: What drove the most forward-thinking organization
in the history of sports not just to the edge … but over it? The
Edge is an Audacy original presented in partnership with Ben Reiter
and Prologue Projects.
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