Hang Up and Listen - Almost Perfect
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🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Vinson Cunningham, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the epic Game 1 of the Nets-Celtics series. They also talk about the Minnesota Timberwolves, young playoff stars, and Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai. Finally, the Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh joins for a conversation about near-perfection at the start of the baseball season.
Nets-Celtics (3:05): Jayson Tatum, Kyrie Irving, and a whole lot more.
NBA playoffs (26:39): What we’re watching this postseason.
Baseball (49:02): The sadness of two perfect games that almost were.
Afterball (1:09:34): Vinson on the Timberwolves’ spotty playoff history.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, not restricted to words beginning with F, S, B, and Q. |
| 0:28.6 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 18th, 2020. |
| 0:38.2 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about the thrilling first game of the Celtics Nets Eastern Conference Playoff series, the outcome of which will determine the fate of the universe, |
| 0:43.5 | and more. We'll also discuss a bunch of other NBA stuff, including the Timberwolves' |
| 0:50.1 | play-in celebration, Chris Paul's agelessness, and that's owner Joe Tsai's relationship with the NBA and with China. Plus, the ringers Ben Lindberg will be here to help us assess a week of |
| 0:55.4 | historic pitching feats, including two near-perfect games, ruined by managers, an immaculate |
| 1:02.2 | inning and a whole lot of pitches faster than 100 miles per hour. I'm in Washington, D.C., |
| 1:07.6 | and I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast One Year. |
| 1:29.5 | Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsas, he is the author of Word Freak, A Few Second of Panic and Wild and Outside. Stefan, is this the point in the show when you tell us about all the heaters that you faced in slow-pitched softball? I hit a Grand Slam and had a chance to hit a second Grand Slam in the same inning. Did not enter the record books with that second Granny, alas. Is that Fernando Tatis who hit the two? I think it is, right? Yeah, |
| 1:36.8 | I think it is. Disappointing. I did double, though, so I was trying to kill it failed so if you do you know what uh F no I'm trying to |
| 1:49.6 | figure out if this is wrong if this is right F tete is almost anagrams into Fatsis oh very good |
| 1:56.6 | two T's though yeah that close fatisettis. Fattis. Yeah. |
| 2:06.7 | Joel Anderson is out again and still filling in with a Madison Square Garden's worth of brain space fully available to discuss the non-Nix franchise is alive in the NBA playoffs. |
| 2:12.6 | It is New Yorker staff writer and theater critic Vincent Gunningham. |
| 2:15.7 | Hello, Vincent. |
| 2:16.8 | Thank you so much. |
| 2:17.7 | Sadly true. |
| 2:18.8 | Unburdened by my love, now free to pursue any fancy or whim. |
| 2:25.0 | All right. |
| 2:25.8 | So Anna Graham's totally available later in the show. |
| 2:31.6 | We'll be looking for opportunities. |
| 2:36.8 | Before their first round, Eastern Conference playoff series began the Celtics versus the Nets look like it could be a classic. |
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