Sports Night with Evan Drellich

Winning Fixes Everything 

Saturday, November 11th at 7:30pm 

Performing Arts Center, East Entrance, Arts and Education Building, The J Creve Coeur 

Baseball, that old romantic game, has been defaced and consumed by corporate America. As Moneyball-thinking and Ivy League graduates grabbed hold of the sport, the Astros set out to build a cost-efficient winning machine on the principles of the outside business world, squeezing every dollar out of every transaction, player and employee.

In Winning Fixes Everything, Drellich reveals the rise and fall of the Astros to be a collision of subcultures. The team’s top boss was a former McKinsey consultant who lived on the bleeding edge with no guardrails. He hired outsider after outsider to change the organization as quickly and cheaply as possible. The wins piled up, and so did the cash for the billionaire owner with a checkered business past. But not even a World Series title could cover up the rot.

Interviewed by Tamar Sher, KMOV Sports Anchor.

General Admission: $40