Hang Up and Listen - Bronny Makes His Name
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Undefeated’s Lonnae O’Neal to talk about Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson. Sports Illustrated’s Emma Baccellieri also joins to discuss baseball free agency. Finally, author Damon Young chats about the rise of Bronny James.
Lamar Jackson (01:24): What’s the larger significance of this particular black quarterback?
MLB free agency (18:47): Stephen Strasburg, Gerrit Cole, and Anthony Rendon have all signed huge deals. What do those contracts say about the state of the game?
Bronny James (33:50): There’s a lot of pressure on LeBron’s son. Over the weekend, he lived up to the hype.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.2 | Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen, |
| 0:12.3 | and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 16, 2019. |
| 0:17.9 | On this week's show, Lanay O'Neil of the undefeated, |
| 0:20.5 | will be here to talk about the |
| 0:21.4 | excellence of Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson and how he's changing football. Sports |
| 0:27.0 | Illustrated's Emma Bachelary will also join us to discuss the huge new deals for baseball |
| 0:31.6 | players Steven Strasberg, Garrett Cole, and Anthony Rendon. And finally, Damon Young of |
| 0:36.7 | very smart brothers. |
| 0:37.8 | We'll chat with us about the rise of 15-year-old Brani James, aka LeBron James Jr., |
| 0:43.7 | who appears to be quite good at basketball and also has 3.8 million followers on |
| 0:48.8 | Instagram. |
| 0:49.9 | Joining me in Slate's Washington, DC Studio studio is the decidedly less popular on social media. |
| 0:56.5 | Stephen Fatsis. |
| 0:57.0 | No followers on Instagram. |
| 0:58.3 | Author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic working on building out his brand. |
| 1:03.2 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:03.8 | Hi, Josh. |
| 1:04.4 | We are still soliciting calls for our call-in show. |
| 1:08.2 | We'd love to hear from more folks, get more questions, whether they're conundrums, advice, trivia, probably not trivia, but try us, whatever. The phone number is 7-7, hang-up 10, and we would love to hear from you. |
| 1:25.8 | On Thursday, Lamar Jackson had another Lamar Jackson game. |
| 1:30.3 | The Ravens quarterback through five touchdown passes rushed for 86 yards, breaking the |
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