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Hang Up and Listen - Hang Up and Listen: The Farewell to Throwing Arms Edition

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Josh Levin, Mike Pesca, and special guest Johnette Howard discuss Bubba Watson’s Masters win. They also talk about baseball’s alarming rate of Tommy John surgeries, and are joined by the New Republic’s Christopher Beam to explore football in China.Show notes at www.slate.com/hangup.


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0:00.0

Hang Up and Listen is sponsored by Audible.com.

0:03.1

Audible offers more than 150,000 audio books, all available for listening on your smartphone, tablet, and desktop.

0:10.5

Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at Audiblepodcast.com slash hang up.

0:21.6

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of

0:25.4

April 14th, 2014. On this week's show, we'll talk about Bubba Watson's second master's

0:30.6

win in three years and whether the tradition, unlike any other, is actually changing with

0:35.0

the times. We'll also discuss a spate of Tommy John surgeries

0:38.5

in baseball and why the game still hasn't figured out how to keep pitchers healthy. Finally,

0:43.3

we'll be joined by Chris Beam of the New Republic to talk about his story, Year of the Pigskin,

0:48.0

my hilarious heartbreaking triumphant season with the American Football League of China.

0:53.4

My compatriot, Stefan Fatsis, is out this week for

0:56.0

spring break, and I can only assume that he's now shotgunning a beer in Panama City, wearing a

1:00.9

Zellmos do-it-better t-shirt, yelling woo-hoo. Stefan, with his woo-hoo's.

1:07.2

Woo-hoo! Joined, as always, by Slate's Mike Pasca, you do a pretty good woohoo, Mike.

1:12.6

Woohoo.

1:13.6

Without the woohoo, no one would have fun.

1:15.6

Woohoo.

1:16.6

Woohoo is like the bungee jumping of sounds.

1:18.6

Like if you can't tell it to someone else, it's not worth doing.

1:21.6

What do you think the cause and effect is there?

1:23.6

Do you think the woohoo causes fun or is a...

1:26.6

Mm-hmm... Woo causes, who is the effect?

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