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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 31st, 2014. On this week's show, we'll look back at the weekend's action in the NCAA tournament and assess the unlikely final four of Florida, Wisconsin, Yukon, and Kentucky.

Assess.

We'll then discuss the NLRB ruling, which will surely be appealed 400 times.

Labor relations.

Northwestern University's football players will indeed be allowed to unionized, at least before the appeal.

Finally, we'll scrutinize the contract extensions handed out to American League sluggers

Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout, the former of which has been, it's really hard to concentrate,

the former of which has been pilloried because it's too expensive in the latter because it's too cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. Farv, far, far. Joined in Washington, D.C. It's been a while. It's been too long since we had some farv talk. Should we just add a fourth topic? Sure. And farv. Can we talk about the genes where they talk about how it's a U shape, not a V a V-Shap? Isn't there just like the nice way of saying, Americans, you've got a fat-ass. It's a U-shape. The word fat-ass doesn't scan well with the Favv fan. How about we go with U-Shap? Seven Fadsts, the author of the book's V-Shap and U-Shap and Word Freak on a few seconds of panic.

He's also the Friday Sports Correspondent for Wrangler Jeans, Talk Radio, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and NPR's All Things Considered.

How is it? How are you, Stefan?

I'm well, Josh.

With us from New York, back from his triumph and hosting duties in Chicago at Way Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. It's NPR's Mike Pesca, who no longer works for NPR. He's the host of Slate's new daily podcast. This show is off to a rip-roaring start. How's it going, Mike? Good. After a painful rodeo accident, I'm now wearing W-shaped jeans. I don't really want to get into it that much. I think Peter Sagle, I think you may have pipped Peter Sagle. Can you say Pipped Peter Sagle? It's an interesting analogy that that exists. Because a few people say that, and Peter Sagle's great, and I don't want to put myself in that. Exactly. A few people said he's never going to actually come back and I'm going to take his job.

Yeah. So that thing is one of these useful myths. I mean, it's not exactly a myth. He did take a day off and then Garrig never came out of the lineup. But just think about it logically. Like, that happens a lot and what? You can't find

another place for Pip and Pip was slumping and the whole team was slumping. And then when people say, oh, you're the Lou Gehrig to Wally Pip. All I think of is, well, one guy died young of a horrible disease and the other guy lived to 71 and had a nice life but became this anecdote. Which which life would you rather have?

Wally Pip.

Gary's life was pretty good.

Do you think of his name wasn't Wally Pip that any of this would have happened? I think the name kind of suited his role. Certainly. If it was like, George, you take it today, Lou. If it was Peter Sengel, no one would be talking about it. All right.

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