Hang Up and Listen - Brett Phillips, World Series Hero
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🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the likely and unlikely heroes of the 2020 World Series. ESPN’s Myron Medcalf also comes on to talk about how the pandemic is affecting college sports “have nots” like UC Riverside. Finally, the hosts are joined by … a mystery guest!
World Series (02:02): Where did Brett Phillips come from? And how did Clayton Kershaw transform his postseason legacy?
UC Riverside (20:34): Why this Division I school is considering eliminating sports entirely.
Mystery guest (37:31): A sports innovator joins the show. Will Joel and Stefan be able to guess who he is?
Afterball (55:14): Josh on Andrew Giuliani’s failed lawsuit after he got kicked off the Duke University golf team.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, not restricted to words beginning with F, S, B, and Q. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor. This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 26th, 2020. On this week's show, |
| 0:22.5 | we'll talk about the likely and unlikely heroes of this World Series, which the LA Dodgers |
| 0:27.4 | are leading three games to two over the Tampa Bay Rays. ESPN's Myron Bed-Cath will also join us |
| 0:33.0 | to discuss the financial challenges of college sports during a pandemic and how one division |
| 0:38.0 | one school is considering dropping sports entirely. And for our final segment, we're going to |
| 0:42.9 | have a hang up and listen game show. Stay tuned as our panelists interrogate our mystery guest |
| 0:48.1 | and try to guess who he is and why he's here. And you, the listeners, can play along at home |
| 0:53.5 | or not. It's really up to you. the listeners, can play along at home or not. |
| 0:54.6 | It's really up to you. |
| 0:56.1 | I am the author of the Queen, host of Slow Burn Season 4, resident of Washington, D.C., |
| 1:00.8 | and for one week only, the presenter of What's My Line? |
| 1:05.4 | Also, in Washington, D.C., it's the author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic, |
| 1:09.8 | playing to win this |
| 1:11.3 | brand new catamaran and Stefan Fatsis. Hello, Stefan. You know how much I love sports challenge. |
| 1:18.0 | I do. And catamaran's. Are you Dick Enberg? I'm just a lonely catamaran salesman trying to get this |
| 1:23.4 | catamaran off my lot with us from Palo Alto, Slate staff host of slowburn season three playing to weigh this totally different brand new catamaran it's joll anderson welcome joel what the hell i'm gonna do with a catamaran you're by the ocean right there come on you're just crawling in catamaran's out there. A catamaran is a boat, right? |
| 1:44.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.2 | Just, okay. |
| 1:45.9 | Some sort of a boat. |
| 1:46.9 | Sailboat. |
| 1:47.7 | I don't know how to swim. |
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