Episode 43: Breathing First, Winning Next

Grandstand is back and this time we’re going for the win…by any means necessary! On this episode the Pontificator and Professor discuss what has been the spiciest talk of the town in the sports world - The 2017 cheating, albeit winning, Houston Astros. How much does the cheating scandal in baseball reflect the larger ethos driving our everyday lives beyond the game? What can modest fishermen, Pac Man, Max Weber and Vince McMahon teach Major League Baseball and society about the problem our game finds itself plagued in? As Grandstanders always do, we meander through these questions and more as we try to make sense of this sexy mess that we’ve caged ourselves in.