Hang Up and Listen - Everyone Hates the European Super League
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🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin are joined by Ken Early of the Irish Times to talk about European soccer’s proposed Super League. They also discuss the NFL’s top quarterback prospects and they debate whether Triller Fight Club is the future of boxing.
Super League (2:10): What is this new soccer proposal? Why is it making everyone so mad? Is there any way to stop it?
Quarterbacks (21:40): What we know about Trevor Lawrence and crew, and why so many QBs will likely get picked at the top of the first round.
Boxing (38:52): Are Jake Paul, Snoop Dogg, Justin Bieber, Evander Holyfield the salvation for a dying sport?
Afterball (52:19): Stefan on the San Diego Sockers music video “One for the Thumb.”
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.2 | Hide your children. |
| 0:08.6 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the |
| 0:12.5 | week of April 19th, 2021. |
| 0:15.6 | On this week's show, Ken Early of the Irish Times and the second captain's podcast joins us to talk about the new |
| 0:22.0 | Super League proposal in European soccer, why everyone except the sports richest clubs hates it. |
| 0:27.9 | We'll also discuss the pile up of quarterbacks at the top of the upcoming NFL draft, |
| 0:32.9 | and we'll look at Triller Fight Club, the upstart promotion featuring the likes of Snoop Dog, Jake Paul, |
| 0:39.6 | and Evander Holyfield, is threatening to upend boxing. I'm in Washington, D.C., and I'm the author of |
| 0:45.6 | The Queen and the host of Slow Burn Season 4 on David Duke. Also in D.C., the proud owner of a |
| 0:52.4 | George Foster baseball bat. Stefan Fatsis, he's the author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hey, Josh. I'm just going to let the bat pass by, are you? I could say, you know. Try and have a conversation with you. Sure. Who's George Foster? Is that, are you talking about former Indiana Pacer Center? George Foster or somebody else? Oh, man. I think you're thinking of Jeff Foster. George Foster. Oh, wow, Jeff, wow. George Foster is a member of the 1970s big red machine. Big Red machine, Cincinnati Reds. 50 homers in a season. And then played for the Mets and'll be mentioned in my afterball, actually. Yeah, I found a bag of stuff in the garage, old golf clubs, baseball bats, wiffle ball bats. And there was this George Foster model bat in there. And I love it. Sitting on my desk now. I don't know how it got in there where I stole it from. You found a 1976 Sports Illustrated cover in your garage this weekend, basically. |
| 1:46.5 | Basically. |
| 1:46.7 | The all the sports you got. |
| 1:49.4 | Hey, Joel. |
| 1:50.3 | Hey. |
| 1:51.1 | Slate staff writer, the host of Slow Burn Season 3 and the upcoming Slow Burn season 6. |
| 1:55.1 | I just made it way more awkward. |
| 1:57.2 | That's proof of concept that the way that we usually do the introductions is correct. |
| 2:01.6 | Just wanted to switch it up to make sure. |
| 2:03.5 | Yeah, keep everybody on their toes this morning. |
| 2:05.6 | You know, things are moving around in the sports world, so we have to be able to adjust. |
| 2:10.5 | On Sunday, 12 of the richest soccer clubs in Europe, six from England, three from Spain, |
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