Goodbye to Billy Beane and Daryl Morey

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin are joined by the Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh to discuss the World Series matchup between the Dodgers and the Rays. They also discuss Billy Beane reportedly leaving the Oakland A’s and Daryl Morey departing the Houston Rockets. Finally, they assess an Atlantic piece on rich white parents using niche sports to get their kids into Ivy League schools. World Series (02:12): What do the Dodgers and Rays have in common, and what are the differences between baseball’s best teams? Beane and Morey (21:09): What’s the legacy of the sports world’s best-known analytically inclined executives? Rich parents and niche sports (39:12): On the culture of high-level squash and college admissions. Afterball (58:20): Joel on Derrick Henry, the rare star high school running back who made it in the NFL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.0	Hide Your Children.
0:05.0	Hi, I'm Josh Levine,
0:10.0	Splea National Editor, Slate National Editor.
0:14.6	This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 19, 2020.
0:19.4	On this week show, we'll be joined by the Ringers Ben Lindbergh
0:22.4	to discuss the World Series matchup between the LA Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays,
0:27.8	RIP, and the paths those teams took to get to the World Series.
0:33.0	We'll also discuss the potential end of an analytics era,
0:37.0	with Moneyball legend Billy Bean reportedly leaving the Oakland Days front office
0:42.0	and Darrell Mori leaving his post with the Houston Rockets.
0:45.6	Finally we'll have a conversation about a piece that ran in the Atlantic on how rich
0:51.1	Northeastern parents are using or trying to use sports like squash
0:55.6	to get their kids into Ivy League schools.
0:58.2	I am the author of the Queen, host of Sloburn season four.
1:01.6	I'm in Washington, D.C.
1:03.2	Also here in D.C.
1:05.4	The author of the book's Word Freak
1:07.1	in a few seconds of panic.
1:09.1	Stephen Fatsis, Stephen has shaved his quarantine beard which I take to mean that he won the
1:16.2	Stanley Cup so congratulations Stephen. Yeah I mean Doc Emmerich announced his
1:20.2	retirement as hockey announcer so fitting tribute to Doc Emmerich, I guess, even though those are completely unrelated events.
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