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Ep 0: Introducing "The Edge: Houston Astros" …Coming October 7
September 11, 2020
- 03:07
Season One of The Edge is a six-part documentary podcast, presented by Cadence13 and Prologue Projects, following best-selling Astroball...
Ep 1: Bang Bang
October 7, 2020
- 45:52
The Houston Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century. But when Ben Reiter wrote about the club for Sports Illustrated in...
Ep 2: Stargazers
October 7, 2020
- 48:56
Houston’s first great sports innovator was named Judge Roy Hofheinz. He brought the Astros to town in the 1960s with the promise of what...
About The Show
Season One of The Edge is a six-part documentary podcast, presented by Cadence13 and Prologue Projects, following 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?
More Episodes
Ep 0: Introducing "The Edge: Houston Astros" …Coming October 7
September 11, 2020
- 03:07
Season One of The Edge is a six-part documentary podcast, presented by Cadence13 and Prologue Projects, following best-selling Astroball...
Ep 1: Bang Bang
October 7, 2020
- 45:52
The Houston Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century. But when Ben Reiter wrote about the club for Sports Illustrated in...
Ep 2: Stargazers
October 7, 2020
- 48:56
Houston’s first great sports innovator was named Judge Roy Hofheinz. He brought the Astros to town in the 1960s with the promise of what...
Ep 3: Smart Guys
October 14, 2020
- 41:27
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...
Ep 4: Thank God We Got Osuna
October 21, 2020
- 48:38
The 2018 Astros were even more talented than the previous season’s champions. There was just one problem: they couldn’t count on their...
Ep 5: The Storm
October 28, 2020
- 45:26
The revelation of the Astros’ trash can-banging, sign-stealing scheme ignited a firestorm. Players emerged to say that they’d known the...
Ep 6, Part 1: Codebreaker
November 4, 2020
- 47:01
After an intensive investigation, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred issued his report about the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal and...
Ep 6, Part 2: Astroworld
November 11, 2020
- 59:40
In the conclusion of our series finale, the Astros return for the 2020 season as the villains of baseball – without their fired G.M....