Hang Up and Listen - Baseball in a Cornfield
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🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about Major League Baseball’s Field of Dreams game. Writer Jessica Luther also joins to discuss the Deshaun Watson and Trevor Bauer cases. Finally, they review the documentary Malice at the Palace.
Field of Dreams (4:42): Is this kind of nostalgia good or bad for baseball?
Watson and Bauer (26:02): How should leagues handle allegations of sexual misconduct?
Malice at the Palace (46:35): What the Netflix documentary leaves out.
Afterball (1:07:16): Stefan on hockey players fighting fans in 1979.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait and see. |
| 0:12.1 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 16th, 2021. |
| 0:18.8 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about the Field of Dreams game between |
| 0:22.8 | the White Sox and Yankees and whether cornfield baseball is the future of the sport. Jessica |
| 0:28.5 | Luther of the Burn It All Down podcast will also be here to discuss Deshawn Watson and Trevor |
| 0:35.0 | Bauer and what happens when leagues investigate players accused of sexual |
| 0:39.5 | misconduct. And finally, we'll review the new Netflix documentary Malice at the Palace about the 2004 brawl |
| 0:46.9 | involving the Pistons, the Pacers, and a bunch of fans. Unruly fans. I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of the Queen and the host of the new podcast |
| 0:58.8 | one year. |
| 1:00.2 | Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:05.1 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:05.9 | Hey, Josh. |
| 1:06.4 | I think Wilden Outside is appropriate to mention this week because the cover of the book shows players for the Sioux city explorers walking through corn in the outfield |
| 1:16.7 | I never can really tell whether you're feeling enthused or ashamed about wild and outside |
| 1:23.4 | I need like a just a weekly update on your personal views. I'm enthused this week. I mean, |
| 1:29.7 | I'm sort of enthused and a little bit embarrassed that the cover of the book is Field of Dreams, |
| 1:33.9 | which I'm about to trash in this upcoming segment. Spoiler alert. With us from the West Coast, |
| 1:39.5 | from Palo Alto, Slate Staff writer, host of Slow Burn Season 3 and and the upcoming Slow Burnes Season 6, and world-renowned |
| 1:46.6 | sports trivia expert and champion, undefeated, untied, never scored upon, maybe scored upon. |
| 1:54.0 | Joel Anderson, hello, Joel. |
| 1:55.4 | One for one so far. A lot of lot of people saw that coming, me beating Meena Kimes. But, you know, |
| 2:00.5 | I just have to use people's expectations as my fuel. |
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