Hang Up and Listen - Scandal in the National Women’s Soccer League
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🗓️ 4 October 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about Tom Brady’s win over the Patriots. Meg Rowley of FanGraphs also joins to discuss the end of baseball’s regular season and the start of the playoffs. Finally, the Athletic’s Steph Yang helps assess the present and future of the National Women’s Soccer League.
Brady vs. the Pats (03:09): Did the game live up to the hype? Was there too much hype?
Baseball (28:23): Should we be sad about the lack of chaos or happy about the possibility of chaos to come?
NWSL (49:42): What are the allegations, and what happens next?
Afterball (1:07:30): Stefan on the oldest players in NFL history.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.0 | Hide your children. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 4th, 2021. |
| 0:25.2 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about Tom Brady's triumphant return to New England as a member of the Tampa Bay Bucks. |
| 0:32.0 | Meg Rowley of fan graphs will also join us to discuss the distressingly non-wacky conclusion to baseball's regular season |
| 0:38.8 | and what to look for as the playoffs begin this week. And the athletics, Steph Yang, will be here |
| 0:44.4 | to assess the present and future of the National Women's Soccer League, which canceled |
| 0:48.9 | its schedule over the weekend in the wake of reporting about abuse and toxic work environments |
| 0:53.6 | throughout the league. I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen and the wake of reporting about abuse and toxic work environments throughout the league. |
| 0:55.3 | I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast One Year. |
| 1:00.2 | Also in D.C. is Stefan Fatsis. He's the author of Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic and Wild |
| 1:05.7 | and Outside, now permanent part of the rotation. Hello, Stephen. |
| 1:10.2 | Hey, Josh. We have a sheriff |
| 1:11.9 | to Ross Bowl update. They beat Real Madrid in the Champions League group stage. Are they good now? |
| 1:18.8 | Do we like them because they're winning? No, we still don't like them. We're just sort of, |
| 1:23.2 | our jaws are on the floor. Keep us posted with us from Palo Alto, host of Slow Burn season three and the upcoming season |
| 1:30.8 | six on the LA riots. |
| 1:32.5 | It's Joel Anderson. |
| 1:33.4 | Joel, we're just both wallowing and misery and defeat. |
| 1:38.3 | So I'm glad that we can be in this together. |
| 1:41.0 | Really looking forward to basketball season. |
| 1:43.1 | First NBA preseason game was |
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