Evan Drellich: Why ‘Winning’ In Sports Doesn’t Fix Everything
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In 2019, a journalist for The Athletic broke the sign-stealing scandal in which Astros players used an in-stadium video to identify opposing catchers signs and banged on trash cans to relay that information to batters at the plate in and after their championship season in 2017.
While the sign-stealing scandal may seem like a brazen example of cheating, the line between cheating and gaining a competitive advantage can be blurry. Some rules are arcane, others aren’t enforced…until they are. And sometimes the game itself is patently unfair from the outset.
We take a walk through why athletes would risk it all on shady moves.
Guest Host:
- Executive producer and host of Houston Matters
Guest:
- Senior Writer at The Athletic, covering Major League Baseball
- Author of the forthcoming book, Winning Fixes Everything The Rise and Fall of the Houston Astros
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