An Outsider's Take on America's Game

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Tabitha Soren is not a natural baseball fan. She got interested when her husband, Michael Lewis, was working on his book Moneyball. As Lewis became obsessed with teaching his readers another way to watch the game, Soren focused on showing people how to see the players in a different way: as fallible and broken people who sacrifice their bodies for a chance to play in the major leagues. The result is Fantasy Life, a 15-year span of photographs of a group of minor league draft picks for the Oakland A's. In the Spiel, yeah, we're having a hard time understanding this whole "unmasking" business, too. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	It's Tuesday, April 4th, 2017 from Slated to the Gist I'm Ike Pesca.
0:13.3	And the Gist has been nominated for three Webby Awards.
0:16.0	There are 14 podcast categories.
0:18.9	We were nominated for best host, best interview, and best writing.
0:23.0	See, I think we had a shot in the best recap show category.
0:27.2	Our Off-Shoot podcast, The Gist Gist.
0:30.2	I thought that had a chance.
0:31.4	Now, I don't know if you've heard The Gist Gist.
0:33.2	It's just a copy of The Gist, but it's recorded at double speed.
0:37.5	So we push it out to you with double speed.
0:39.6	And then when you play it at two time speed, you could listen to a 20-minute podcast in
0:44.0	five minutes.
0:45.0	Yes, I know that the promo codes for the great courses plus 10 to fly by.
0:49.6	But it is a time-saving idea.
0:51.3	Sadly, it is not nominated.
0:53.4	But the Gist was nominated at Thrice.
0:55.3	Very nice to be nominated.
0:56.6	You can vote in the People's Voice Awards.
1:00.0	So please vote.
1:01.0	We, the most nominated podcast, are in last place and all the categories.
1:05.2	I don't want to be color-purple here.
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