Hang Up and Listen - The 0-162 or Bust Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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In this week’s episode of Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca take listeners’ questions in a special spring call-in show. Topics include how the worst baseball players in history would do against a team of all-time greats, the next great corporate stadium names, the proper time to buy championship apparel, and the panel’s favorite sports books. Hang Up and Listen is sponsored by QuickBooks. If you work for yourself, try QuickBooks Self-Employed. It helps separate your business and personal expenses, estimate your federal quarterly taxes and more. See what QuickBooks Self-Employed can do for you with a free 30-day trial at TrySelfEmployed.com/hang. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/hangupplus. Facebook: facebook.com/HangUpAndListenEmail: hangup@slate.comShow notes at www.slate.com/hangup
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Hang Up and Listen is sponsored by QuickBooks. |
| 0:03.6 | If you work for yourself, try QuickBooks self-employed. |
| 0:06.5 | It helps separate your business and personal expenses, estimate your federal quarterly taxes, and more. |
| 0:12.1 | See what QuickBooks Self-Employed can do for you with a free 30-day trial at tryselfemployed.com slash hangup. |
| 0:19.3 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen |
| 0:31.5 | for the week of May 18, 2015. |
| 0:34.7 | On this week's show, we're taking calls from you, the listeners, on such topics as |
| 0:39.7 | terrible baseball players, corporate stadium nomenclature, the proper time to buy championship |
| 0:45.9 | apparel, and how we have managed to acquire so much knowledge about sports. Oh, so much |
| 0:51.9 | knowledge, Stefan. Oh, so much. Your brain is just oozing out of your |
| 0:56.3 | ears. Exploding. There's knowledge on the ceiling here in the hang-up studio. Is that knowledge? |
| 1:02.4 | I thought it was gum. Joining me in Washington, D.C. It's knowledge user. Stefan Fatsis, author of the |
| 1:09.1 | book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. |
| 1:11.5 | Hey, Stefan. |
| 1:12.3 | Hello, Josh. |
| 1:13.7 | With us from New York. |
| 1:15.8 | It's Mike Pesca. |
| 1:16.7 | My knowledgeable friend. |
| 1:18.3 | The host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist with Mike Pesca. |
| 1:21.1 | That guy knows more than just sports stuff. |
| 1:24.6 | He's a polymath. |
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