The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 28th, 2019.

On this week's show, Ben Lindberg of the Ringer will be here to discuss the Houston Astros'

massive World Series comeback.

Dead Spins Laura Wagner will then join us to talk about the Astro's massive World Series failures,

how an executive taunted a female reporter by shouting about an alleged domestic abuser,

and the team then failed to own up to it for a very, very long time.

Finally, the New Yorker's Vincent Cunningham will help us overreact to week one of the NBA season.

The Warriors, they're really bad.

Maybe that's not an overreaction.

We'll see.

Joining me here in the Washington, D.C. studio, it is the author of A Few Seconds of Panic

and Word Freak. Stephen Fatsis. Hello, Stefan. Hi, Josh. Did you want to talk about soccer? Happy morning. Before we get. Happy day. And to the rest of the show. Yes. Well, first, Christian Polisick scored his first, second, and third goals for Chelsea. Couldn't do much against Canada. Clearly, Canada much

stiffer than Burnley as an opponent. Clearly. And they were all great goals. They were fantastic

goals. This was very exciting. He looked very excited, as he should have looked. He looked

the way that he should have looked. He's figuring out both how to play at this level

and how to look at this level. Yeah. He's doing a good job of it. And we also have breaking

news on the U.S. men's national team. Yeah. The Dutch American player, Serginio Dest, made a choice

of what team he was going to play for internationally. He's 19 years old. He's a defender for

IACs and starts, which means he's really good.

And he's chosen the United States of America.

When we talked about Grant Wall, I was skeptical.

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