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Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of November 16th, 2020.

On this week's show,

Fangraph's Meg Rowley will join us to talk about the Miami Marlins hiring of Kim Ang as the first woman general manager in Major League Baseball, or for that matter, in any of the major North

American pro sports. We'll also ponder whether this year's NFC East is the worst division in the history of

pro football, and we'll talk about our nation's insistence that sports must go on, no matter the state

of the pandemic, and the state at present is bad and it's getting worse. I'm in Washington, D.C.

I'm the author of The Queen and the host of Slow Burn, season four. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan.

Hey, Josh. Thank you for the cheeriness. We're going to need it with us from Palo Alto. Slate Staff writer, host of Slow Burn Season 3 and upcoming season 6 on the LA riots. Joel Anderson.

Hello, Joel. Hello, Josh. Hello, Stefan. Nice even tone, more in keeping with the mood of

America. So one thing that we haven't mentioned recently is the fact that people can subscribe to this

show. It is possible. There are various subscription

buttons attached to various subscription services, and you can also rate and review us in Apple

podcasts. If you've just been kind of wondering idly to yourself, what is it than I, just a lonely

podcast listener out walking the dog, washing the car, just staring into space?

What can I do to help Joel and Stefan and Josh?

Subscribing to the show and rating and reviewing us in Apple Podcasts is a thing.

Do it.

Can I say something about sometimes we get emails from people, and they really are touching. I've never, like, been part of a community. Wait, what am I saying? That's not true. I've been part of a community. But, you know, you just really get the podcast community. There you go. And you just really get the sense that people, whenever people reach out, sometimes I feel bad because I'm always behind on

emails. I don't know about the rest of you all, but when you do reach out and send us a note,

we do get it. And it is actually meaningful. And we get ideas often from folks when they reach out.

And I'm always surprised at the breadth of people that listen and reach out to us. So yeah,

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