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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 14th, 2014.

On this week's show, we're going large with two big topics.

Stefan's eyes are wide.

We'll talk about Germany's 1-0-0,000 went over Argentina, 1-0, sorry, in the World Cup final.

The Germans' dominance of the tournament, Leonel Messi's sad golden ball victory. It might have been the saddest, most goldenest ball ever, and everything else that caught our eye over the past month in the World Cup. We'll then discuss LeBron James's move back to Cleveland and the method he used to announce it. An undecision-like, as told to essay in Sports Illustrated, we'll assess LeBron's motives the shape of his new contract and the fallout from that deal and the rest of the NBA. Finally, in our bonus segment for Slate Plus members, we'll look at Major League Baseball at mid-season, including the upside-down American League East and the continued dominance of pitching overhitting. Will there be snubs? Snubs! There might be snubs. Probably not snubs, though. Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, the author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. And the Friday sports correspondent for NPR's all things considered. Hello, Stefan. Hi, Josh. We should do this from Washington State once, so you could say joining me in Washington State. Major expenditure for Slate for a very, very important joke. We could just say that we're in Washington State and not actually be there. That would save Slate a lot of money. Theater of the Mind, folks. Theater of the mind. With us from New York. Actually, with us from Washington State. It's Mike Pesca, the host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist with Mike Pesca. How are those delicious Washington State apples, Mike? Oh, they're just round and golden or possibly red. New York has great apples, too. Huskies. You're going to go see

the huskies? Oh, love the huskies. Great one for the Sounders last night. Did you like that

Sounders game? Dempsey scored. He was almost offside, but he was barely on. Had Yedland do.

But Peska could tell us he was there in person. How did DeAndre Yedland do, Mike? Yeah, the Sounders. Today on the local public radio station, they said, what are you going to do after the World Cup? Are you going to watch other sports? Catch up on chores or do something else? You don't even mention the MLS. It's not even an even an option. Post World Cup, where do you take your soccer excitement to another sport? Like, how about the same sport? No, they don't know. Soccer mania in America leaves chores undone. No one does chores for a month. I'm going to bat. Cut to a goat who hasn't been fed for a week. All right. first, Erratum from last week, as many people pointed out, we didn't really get the whole Dutch

Flemish thing straight.

We're kind of joking.

Well, if you're joking, you still have to be right.

She notes that Dutch and...

That's not true.

A lot of Leno's monologues are based on misinformation.

Dutch and Flemish are, in fact, the same language that have been given different names.

Some dialectical differences, no more so than the differences between British and American English.

Also, she notes at the end, Walloon speak French.

I think we got like eight different things wrong in that Lenno-esque joke.

Shouldn't they speak Walloon?

So thanks to everyone who pointed that out, we will not make any mistakes in the future.

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