Podcast company Cadence13 is kicking off a new sports documentary podcast franchise with a season that will explore the HoustonAstros cheating scandal
Podcast company Cadence13 is kicking off a new sports documentary podcast franchise with a season that will explore the Astros' World Series-winning 2017 season. Major League Baseball fined the Astros in January after a report uncovered that players used technology to communicate signs stolen from opposing teams. writer Ben Reiter, who will write and host the show, andco-creators Leon Neyfakh and Andrew Parsons, who will produce via Neyfakh's Prologue Projects shingle.
A TV series based on the podcast also is in development with Left/Right Productions, the producer of Epix's . Reiter, Prologue Projects and Underground also are attached to the TV adaptation. "The Astros of the 2010s were the most innovative organization in the history of sports," Reiter said in a statement. "As it turned out, the ‘new way to win it all’ involved factors that no one could have imagined — myself included. Cadence13, Prologue Projects, and Left/Right are the ideal partners with whom to reveal the full story of the Astros’ exhilarating rise and shocking fall.
Added Neyfakh, "We have long wanted to apply our narrative approach to a story that's outside the world of politics. The Astros saga is the perfect place for us to start — in addition to being populated by amazing characters, it forces you to ask yourself hard questions about the meaning of fairness, cheating and secrecy."
The podcast, which is set to debut in summer 2020, will seek to reshape the public's understanding of the story. Reiter, who wrote abut the Astros for an , will look at the strategies and culture — sign stealing and all — that lifted the Astros from baseball's worst team to World Series champions in just a few years. Root of Evil
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