Hang Up and Listen - Hang Up and Listen: The Losingest Winner Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2014
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Mike Trout’s fame or lack thereof, interview the Iroquois Nationals’ Ansley Jemison about the World Lacrosse Championship, and talk to NBC Sports’ Joe Posnanski about Washington Generals coach Red Klotz.Show notes at www.slate.com/hangup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 21st, 2014. |
| 0:10.3 | On this week's show, we'll look at whether Mike Trout or anyone else in this generation of baseballers will approach the celebrity slash stardom slash fame slash people knowing about himness of Derek Jeter. |
| 0:22.1 | We'll also talk to Ansley Jemison, the assistant general manager of the Aroquois Nationals |
| 0:26.5 | lacrosse team about his squad's third place finish at the World Lacrosse Championships. |
| 0:33.0 | And finally, NBC Sports is Joe Posnansky. |
| 0:35.9 | We'll join us to talk about the late red clots, the Washington Generals coach who lost more than 14,000 games to the Harlem Globetrotters. |
| 0:44.4 | Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic, the Friday Sports Correspondent for NPR's All Things Considered. |
| 0:53.5 | And, Stefan, you had an amazing anagram moment that you want to share with the listeners. I do. I was at the gymnasium over the weekend. I was catching up on... Fully nude. Catching up on back issues of the gist with Mike Pesca, as I do at the gymnasium. I wasn't at the gym. Oh, I see. |
| 1:11.4 | I see what you mean. |
| 1:29.9 | I didn't get the comma in your sentence. You were checking on Mike's back issues. The gist with Mike Pesca is interviewing some guy that writes a blog about Archie, the comic. He does a podcast about Archie, Riverdale podcast. the guy that does the Riverdale podcast about Archie, the comic, because Archie has been killed off in some versions of Archie. |
| 1:33.2 | And as is my multitasking want at the gym while I am peddling on the stationary bike, |
| 1:37.5 | I also Anagram National Scrabble Championships coming up. |
| 1:41.4 | They are talking about Archie and Veronica and the other characters, |
| 1:45.4 | and these letters pop up on my phone. A-D-E-G-H-J-U, and my task is to anagram those letters, |
| 1:55.2 | and that is not a very hard anagram. Go ahead. Jughead! I nearly fell off of the stationary way. |
| 2:02.2 | And Jughead's a playable word and scrabble? |
| 2:04.3 | That's why it popped up as an anagram. |
| 2:05.7 | Yeah, Jughead's good. |
| 2:06.5 | Archie's not good. |
| 2:07.4 | Veronica, as I told Pasca afterward, Veronica is good. |
| 2:11.5 | It's got many meanings. |
| 2:13.2 | A bullfight pass. |
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