Asterisks & Astros Risks

Far End of the Bench by The Not So Morning Show
S2E – Asterisks Astros Risks
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The asterisk, most notably utilized by Major League Baseball on Roger Maris and his 61 home run season in 1961.

The 2017 Houston Astros, who made trash can banging a part of their game on the way to a World Series title? Many MLB games are available online and it has allowed fans to do their own sleuthing, including one Astros fan, Tony Adams, recording audio from game broadcasts using a spectrogram to produce detailed charts available at signstealingscandal.com.

With these recent Astros and Red Sox scandals, MLB has taken some bruising that they hope the fans will forget. How about those teams’ competitors on the field? A rose is a rose is a rose.

Hey, perhaps we will discuss Pete Rose next?

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