Hang Up and Listen - The Allez Les Bleus Edition
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🗓️ 16 July 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Henry Grabar and Josh Levin are joined by Men in Blazers’ Roger Bennett to discuss the World Cup. Racquet Magazine’s Caitlin Thompson talks about Wimbledon. And Sports Illustrated’s Emma Baccellieri assesses the terrible Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals.
World Cup (2:33): France won the World Cup with an average age of 25 years and 10 months. Is this the beginning of a French soccer dynasty?
Wimbledon (20:12): Is Serena Williams’ remarkable comeback truly unprecedented: Also, Kevin Anderson and John Isner’s semifinal match lasted 6 hours and 36 minutes. Is it time to bring fifth-set tiebreakers to Wimbledon? Should men play three sets instead of five?
Baseball (39:40): The Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals are on pace to be some of the worst teams of all time. Is that a problem the major leagues needs to try to solve?
Afterballs(55:18): Henry on horse racing tracks and Josh on the bizarre shooting of Cubs shortstop Billy Jurges.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 16th, 2018. |
| 0:22.8 | On this week's show, Roger Bennett of Men and Blazers will join us to talk about France's World Cup triumph in our lasting memories |
| 0:28.1 | of the tournament in Russia. Caitlin Thompson of Rackett Magazine will also be here to discuss |
| 0:33.6 | Serena Williams' near triumph at Wimbledon and whether we should impose a fifth set |
| 0:40.1 | tie break to save the men of tennis. And Sports Illustrated's Emma Bachelary will chat with us about |
| 0:47.4 | the Baltimore Orioles and the Kansas City Royals in their quest for a perverse kind of immortality, |
| 0:53.4 | as both are among the worst baseball teams of modern times. |
| 0:59.0 | Stefan Fatsis remains in Iceland, although he assures me that he is going to come back to us some day soon. |
| 1:06.0 | Joining me this week from Slate's New York studio is my colleague Henry Grabar, who writes about business and urban planning and sometimes about sports. |
| 1:15.1 | He also shares a last name with Croatian president Kalinda Grabar Katarovic, but was not displeased with the outcome of Sunday's World Cup final because he is a citizen of the great nation of France. Al-A. Henry. |
| 1:30.2 | Ali Libra, Josh. I'm just really pleased for you. I don't know if I've ever personally |
| 1:35.7 | had a podcaster-to-podcaster relationship with someone who's a citizen of a country that's |
| 1:43.1 | won a Men's World Cup. |
| 1:44.6 | I don't know how that feels. |
| 1:46.1 | This is the first time that I have experienced that phenomenon as well, personally. |
| 1:52.0 | I do not remember France's triumph in the 1998 World Cup. |
| 1:56.2 | So, yeah, it's been a joy. |
| 1:58.1 | As you know, I wrote a piece for Slate over the weekend about some of the French team, the neighborhoods they come from outside of Paris, which is a place that I've done reporting for Slate. And then yesterday, when they won the game, all my sort of opinions about what it meant for France and the social consequences is kind of just faded away in this moment of sheer joy. And I |
| 2:20.5 | happened to be surrounded by French supporters because it was the day after Bastille Day. So |
| 2:25.4 | Brooklyn was having a Bastille Day party. And it was just a really raucous, joyous scene. |
| 2:32.2 | That's awesome. Let's talk about the game. |
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