After Hurricane Harvey forced Tony Adams from his home in 2017, he needed an emotional lift – and got it watching his beloved Astros win the World Series.
The electronic sign-stealing scandal, revealed in recent weeks, has been a body blow to this lifelong fan.
So, frustrated by the revelations that the organization and a number of its players cheated, Adams – a graphic designer and web developer by trade – poured his anger into research.
He spent more than 30 hours in the weeks since the scandal watching video, and compiling data on when the now infamous trashcan beating used at Astros games to signal pitches to batters could be heard.
Once compiled, he published it all, creating the website signstealingscandal.com, where you can see what he found, game by game, and batter by batter.
In the audio above, Adams tells Houston Matters producer Michael Hagerty why he wanted to spend time digging into this, what his research revealed, and how the cheating scandal has affected how he feels about his team.
