hould a Sportscaster Divulge Secrets? With the Major League Baseball sign-stealing scandal front and center, it makes us wonder how a sports broadcaster should handle these situations. If a play by play broadcaster knows players are cheating, should he spill the beans and tell his listeners or viewers?
Today's Question and Answers:
1. What is the most difficult sports to broadcast?
2. Can I become a sports broadcaster if I am not a good athlete?
More transcription from the episode....
Welcome to the Sportscasters Club radio show, where it's all about becoming a better sportscaster on a better sports fans. And now your host, A man who began his sports broadcasting career wave back in 1993. Rick Shults. Welcome to the Sportscasters Club radio show. I'm Rick Schultz. Glad to have you with us again for another action packed episode, and today we're gonna touch on one of the stories that's really front and center in the sports world, the major league baseball world. And that is, of
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course, the Houston Astros. And what's going on with not only the Astros but the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets? The cheating scandal, the technology scandal with teams using devices using technology to steal signs and get a leg up on the competition? I mean, obviously we've talked about this before, and you've heard about it certainly for the last week or two. The fact that stealing signs is nothing new. It's been going on in baseball forever, and I'm actually a proponent of trying to get the upper hand and steal a sign if if it's done in an ethical way. And that's funny because you say, How can I steal in an ethical way? Well, if you're just watching a picture and you're just trying to pick out what he does and you're trying to pinpoint a little thing that he does, maybe before he throws a fastball and you're gonna use that to your advantage, that's great, because that is something that's going on in baseball for 100 years, and that's part of the game. If you ask me, that's my opinion, and we're gonna touch on that a little bit. We're also going to get into what should a broadcaster do If that broadcaster is privy to the information? What if the broadcaster knows what's going on? Maybe the players tell them, should they give that away on the air? That's something we're gonna talk about as well today and then later in the programme, we're going to delve into our question and answer period. Willer will answer a couple of your emails that came in this week. Keep them coming at Sportscasters Club at gmail dot com. Or you can send an email to questions at sportscasters club dot com So refers gonna talk quickly about this this scandal, this technology sign stealing. Then we're gonna talk about how it pertains to a sportscaster. So maybe that alarm you with a little bit more information if you are going to, um But if you're gonna find yourself in a situation like that and have to decide ethically, what do you do? So those are the two things were gonna touch on today, and we're going to start in just a minute. All right? So as I mentioned when I laid out at the beginning of this radio show the scandal involving the cheating, the signs dealing with the Houston Astros and a j hinge on their general manager getting axed. And then you have It's spreading to Alex Cora with the Red Sox because he was a coach with the Astros at the time a few years ago when this sign stealing was happening and then Cora gets can I was shocked that Carlos Beltran eventually got fired by the Mets, and I think it really comes down to something changed this week, and I think the New York Mets found out maybe something that that Beltran was involved in, that maybe he did not die Volt to them initially. And perhaps that's why they decided to move in another direction. I think Beltran actually handled it the right way. You know, so many times is your athletes trying, tow, cover up or make excuses? He didn't do that. He admitted he was wrong. He admitted he cheated and that's how he decided to handle it. I think that was the right way. But it's a scandal that has really blown up on Major league Baseball and mark my words, they have not heard the end of it because if it's gone on with the Astros, it's going on with these people. The small amount of people that you've heard, some of the players and coaches, it's going on in many other places, very similar to the steroid scandal that we had back in the nineties, It wasn't just Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Raphael Palmeiro, Roger Clemens, a Rod. It wasn't just those players. There were a lot of players that were involved in these steroid scandals. Many of the names eventually did come out, and I'm sure and positive that many of the names we've never heard and they were able to skate through. So when we're talking about this scandal here, teams cheating, using using technology to cheat and get the upper hand. Sometimes as a broadcaster, you become aware of things.
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