Hang Up | A World Series for the Ages

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh discuss what was possibly the greatest World Series of all time. Then they’re joined by Matt Brown, the publisher of Extra Points, to break down the competing Republican and Democratic proposals that could reshape the future of college sports. Finally, the Hang Up podfather Josh Levin returns to introduce his new sports history podcast, Replay Booth, and shares an Afterball about a forgotten baseball hero. On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the panel discusses how the National Women’s Soccer League continues to lose players to European teams. The World Series (6:28): Yamamoto heroics College Sports and Politics (27:28): Why Texas billionaire Cody Campbell might be interrupting your Saturday football viewing experience Josh is back! (47:48): Levin returns to tell us about his new podcast, Replay Booth (Note: time codes are only accurate for Slate Plus members, who listen ad-free.) Get more Hang Up and Listen with Slate Plus! Join for weekly bonus episodes of Hang Up and Listen and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Hang Up and Listen show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or visit slate.com/hangupplus for access wherever you listen. You can email us at [email protected]. Podcast production and editing by Kevin Bendis, with production assistance from Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.5	It is Monday, November 3rd, 2025. Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate.
1:11.0	Back with you again. I'm Alex Kirchner. I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I also co-host the college football podcast, Split Zone Duo. Big show for you. This is we're going to talk a little bit of sports and politics. We're going to have a great guest, Matt Brown, of the Extra Points newsletter, to bring us up to speed on some political issues that you might be confused about if you've watched commercials during a college football game this year.
1:14.2	It's the push to save college sports or something on Capitol Hill.
1:19.3	Old friend and hang up and listen host Josh Levine will stop by to tell us about a unique
1:23.8	story of politics and baseball set in of all times the 1960s in a great new podcast
1:29.4	that he's got out this week. But first, obviously, we are going to talk about that incredible
1:35.0	world series. We can't lead this show with anything other than that this week. So stay tuned
1:39.6	if you're here for the Capitol Hill of it all. As usual, joining me this week is Lindsay Gibbs,
1:44.1	the women's sports lead at CBS Sports, and me this week is Lindsay Gibbs, the women's
1:44.5	sports lead at CBS Sports, and the publisher of Powerplays, the newsletter that stays on the biggest
1:49.4	stories of the day in women's sports. Lindsay, how are you? College basketball is back this week.
1:54.3	Women's college basketball, so excited. Men's stoop, but you know, you know where my
1:59.3	allegiances lie. And the Panthers beat the Packers.
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