 All right, I'm making another video about this because so much has happened since the first breakdown and there's been a lot of people saying stuff about the first allegation so I just want to counter them a little bit and kind of just give exactly what information is out on this scenario with the Astros and with MLB in general. Cheating using video cameras and all that nonsense because the guys at the athletic and people across baseball are getting out some good information and it's all scattered so let's see what we can find first as you know the athletic and their initial article the bombshell from Kenny Rosenthal and Evan Drillich so you say it Evan the Astros set up in 2017 was not overly complicated a feed from a camera in center field fixed on the opposing catcher signs was hooked up to a television monitor that was placed on a wall steps from the team's home dugout at Minute Maid Park in the tunnel that runs between the dugout and the clubhouse team employees and the players would watch the screen during the game and try to decode signs sitting opposite the screen on massage tables in a wide hallway so that's what they told us that's what Mike Fires went on record as saying the setup was we have pictures of the setup the area between the clubhouse and the dugout at Minute Maid Park we have a picture of a garbage can that looks you know if we're being honest that one side of it looks like it took a couple beatings in its day and then above the garbage can we have some of those not sure what they could be for honestly they could be for anything but it is funny that there's a hanging wire right above the garbage can in question what many of you probably don't know is this is not the first time we've heard about Astros players hitting a garbage can in signs back in 2018 Jeff Passon 2018 he wrote an article all about the sign stealing when the Astros had an employee in the opposing dugout taking pictures think about that and he wrote two major league players have said they witnessed the Astros players hitting a trash can in the dugout in recent years so this is 2018 so we've been talking about this the Astros have been rumored to do this stuff forever so I took that information I took the Farquhar stuff I made the breakdown which you guys all watched I put it on Twitter I put it on YouTube they got like 6 million views and with that came a lot of questions right with that came a lot of questions right and a lot of Astros fans saying oh one at bat well it was more than one at bat trust me I went on my podcast and I told everyone that listens I said hey if you're bored at work go find some if you're bored as fuck after you listen to this podcast at your office and you have the ability to have downtime go to YouTube and type the words in all caps at AT then HOU all caps 2017 that will give you all the full games that MLB or any YouTube account has of games that took place at Minute Maid Park in 2017 and just go to the seventh eighth ninth inning and you'll hear banging before breaking pitches I was doing it last night is too easy it's literally almost every game and the email started pouring in and the DM started pouring in and people sent me what they found and I took those videos and I put it on a thread and then on Reddit they went even crazier and they have a thread on there of their own with links and timestamps and you can hear this banging throughout the 2017 season why is this so damning well here's the thing for people that are trying to say oh the pitchers just tipping his pitches and they're letting the batter know that's not how that works if the pitchers tipping his pitches then the batter knows he knows exactly what to look for the banging is coming from off the diamond and beyond the dugout right so why would someone that removed from the field have insight that a guy on the field doesn't have has to be somewhere he's getting the feed of something so you know and they're saying that this is a cable that's hooked directly from a camera to the screen there's no broadcast delay there's none of that this was a camera they put in place now the banging patterns up perfectly with off speed pitches and sometimes it's even one bang for a slider two bangs for a changeup if you're just guessing on tipped pitches you're not going to be that exact not at all so then the examples started flying in you guys have probably seen these here's some more listen for the bangs put headphones on you honestly don't even need to adjust the audio for these you can go on youtube you can find them here some this ball is crushed to left field 35 runs batted in the switch hitter all of his home runs this season of two for six in the series the banging sound is so loud that baseball prospectus put out an article saying you can track the audio files you can just scan for that sound and you can track it and there's a whole article out there where they tracked it and it's persistent and it starts early in games and it goes throughout and it only bangs on off speed pitches so that's kind of damning and you'd be like oh well this did this help the astros well yeah because they were last in the league 15th 15th 15th 14th at strikeout to walk percentage and then they jump to first second and first a lot of you could say well they got better players so obviously they were really they were trying to tank in some of those early years and that's very fair counter but let's compare their strikeout and walk ratio to the league it looks like a fake chart all the teams gradually go down gradually go down and then bam astros it looks like you know what are they doing well probably cheating with the video camera so it just keeps going it's not a good look they were really good in 2017 they won the world series that year and then our dudes at the athletic Kenny and Evan come out again with some more headlines astros executive ask scouts for help stealing signs and suggested using cameras emails show that would be damning oh here's the email one thing in specific we are looking for is picking up signs coming out of the dugout the email sender wrote in a message from august of 2017 what we are looking for is how much we can see how we would log things if we need cameras binoculars so go to a game see what you can or can't do and report back your findings so as soon as these new executives came in they sent that to send that out to a bunch of scouts saying hey we want to cheat can you help us and a lot of the scouts said they were disgusted and some probably helped because they ended up doing it we had a bunch of other players come out and say you know hey this is bad we need this cleaned up look into this I had a bunch of people reach out to me because I was kind of I wasn't doing the investigating but I was putting it out there for everyone to see because I have a following and saying keep going this is bad and I have heard rumors and rumblings from people that I trust that this is way deeper than we even know right now and things could get worse so we'll wait and see there might be a part two to this video some players came out I heard this on my own and then a player came out Trevor Plouffe came out and said that according to Carson Smith and now confirmed by my source his source and also I had someone tell me this before that the Astros had someone watching a live feed and then relaying the pitch calls via earpiece to the bullpen catcher hands up on the fence for fastball hands down for off speed because the banging was unable to be heard because the fans were so loud so they directed their eyesight out there I went and checked you can try and check eye line stuff nothing's gonna be you're not gonna be able to prove that at all the bangings are most conclusive evidence they also said whistling whistling so many fans whistle and to say like oh that whistle came from this isn't gonna be there that banging is such a distinct sound and it matches up with just off speed pitches so perfectly that if they get a couple more people to corroborate that like this yeah this happened which I think they will as pretty damning the 2017 season looks up now do we think they got a moral compass and just stop cheating after 2017 or do we think they got smarter about it and change their methods obviously I lean one way and Astros fans probably maybe lean the other way if they even accept 2017 at all but I think that sums it up I think one interesting note is that the exec that got fired Taubman for the yelling about the domestic abuse to the reporter and the Astros handled it so terribly the Astros ended up firing him kind of by public demand but the public demand was probably right because he was seems like a bad guy so now he's lawyering up so now we got this Taubman dude who's probably a bad guy that helped implement cheating and then it was a bad guy that yelled at someone about domestic violence and that was a bad guy and got fired now seems like he's a bad guy and he's gonna spill the beans on the whole organization or sue them or something so bad guy but yeah spill the beans Taubman tell us the truth and we'll have to figure out if we trust you or not I think that's all I'll make a part two if more comes out it's been a wild wild run oh other teams do this other teams have done this I think the Astros led the way I think they started it I think they I think not started it but I think they really I think they really uh executed it to a more extreme and executed it better than any other team was doing and that's why they're at the forefront but sure we had the Apple watch had the Yankees messing with bullpen phones we've had other teams do this um and I'm no don't be naive enough to think that just one team is doing this my eyes are going crazy on me this video was brought to you by coverage gear dot com they sell this hat they sell hats for every single team all sports go to coverage gear dot com use use discount code breakdown for 20 off get yourself a Christmas present I like this one because it's so stupid and so corny that I like it but they have a bunch of like actual really cool ones so go to coverage gear dot com and I think that ends this video my right eye is twitching out on me like crazy and um oh buy a shirt