Hang Up and Listen - Goodbye to Billy Beane and Daryl Morey
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin are joined by the Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh to discuss the World Series matchup between the Dodgers and the Rays. They also discuss Billy Beane reportedly leaving the Oakland A’s and Daryl Morey departing the Houston Rockets. Finally, they assess an Atlantic piece on rich white parents using niche sports to get their kids into Ivy League schools.
World Series (02:12): What do the Dodgers and Rays have in common, and what are the differences between baseball’s best teams?
Beane and Morey (21:09): What’s the legacy of the sports world’s best-known analytically inclined executives?
Rich parents and niche sports (39:12): On the culture of high-level squash and college admissions.
Afterball (58:20): Joel on Derrick Henry, the rare star high school running back who made it in the NFL.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.3 | Hide your children. |
| 0:11.9 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Splaits national editor. |
| 0:14.6 | This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 19th, 2020. |
| 0:19.3 | On this week's show, we'll be joined by the ringers Ben Lindberg to discuss the World Series |
| 0:23.5 | matchup between the L.A. Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays, RIP, devil race, and the |
| 0:30.0 | pads those teams took to get to the World Series. |
| 0:33.2 | We'll also discuss the potential end of an analytics era, with Moneyball legend Billy Bean |
| 0:38.7 | reportedly leaving the Oakland Day's front office and Daryl Morey leaving his post with the Houston Rockets. |
| 0:46.0 | Finally, we'll have a conversation about a piece that ran in the Atlantic on how rich |
| 0:51.0 | northeastern parents are using or trying to use sports like squash to get their kids into Ivy League schools. |
| 0:58.5 | I am the author of The Queen, host of Slow Burn, Season 4. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm in Washington, D.C. also here in D.C., the author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic. |
| 1:09.2 | Stefan Fatsis. |
| 1:10.4 | Stefan has shaved his quarantine beard, which I take to mean that he won the Stanley Cup. |
| 1:17.0 | So congratulations, Stefan. |
| 1:18.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.8 | I mean, Doc Emrick announced his retirement as hockey announcer. |
| 1:22.2 | So fitting tribute to Doc Emric, I guess, even though those are completely unrelated events. |
| 1:27.4 | With us from Palo Alto, Slate Staff Writer, host of Slow Burn, Season 3, Joel Anderson, |
| 1:33.2 | Joel, still smarting from Stanford cutting all of those varsity sports. |
| 1:38.2 | It's been a tough run for you. |
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