Hang Up and Listen - The Andre the Provocateur Edition
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🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by ESPN’s Kevin Arnovitz to discuss the NBA Finals. ESPN’s Julie Foudy also joins to talk about the Women’s World Cup, and Ben Lindbergh comes on the show for a conversation about his book The MVP Machine.
NBA Finals (2:55): Why the Warriors won Game 2, and how both teams are playing great defense.
Women’s World Cup (23:40): How the U.S. stacks up against the world, and how the fight for pay equity will play out during the tournament.
The MVP Machine (47:34): The player development revolution in baseball, explained.
Afterballs (1:05:01): Stefan on the spelling bee and Josh on aluminum bats as scrap metal.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.1 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of June 3rd, 2019. |
| 0:20.0 | On this week's show, we'll talk about the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors, |
| 0:24.1 | but mostly the Golden State Warriors as the NBA finals Head West Tide 1-1. |
| 0:29.9 | Kevin Arnowitz of ESPN will join us for that conversation. |
| 0:33.9 | Soccer legend, Julie Fowdy, will be here to preview the month-long Women's World Cup in France, which begins later this week. |
| 0:41.6 | And finally, we'll talk to Ben Lindberg about his new book, The MVP Machine, How Baseball's New Conformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players. |
| 0:52.0 | Josh Levine is the national editor of Slate |
| 0:54.4 | and the author of The Queen, |
| 0:55.8 | The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth. |
| 0:58.9 | Josh was book touring in California last week, but he's back. |
| 1:02.9 | Josh Levine is back. |
| 1:04.4 | Hi, Josh. |
| 1:04.9 | Hey, how to, hey, Stefan. |
| 1:06.4 | How to go? |
| 1:06.5 | It was great. |
| 1:08.2 | There were a lot of hang-up listeners |
| 1:10.4 | who came up to me at various readings, |
| 1:13.7 | and I signed some remembers Zellmos in books, which was nice. Yeah, if people buy a book, |
| 1:24.1 | I'm going to make this offer to podcast listeners. If you buy the book, which you should do, |
| 1:28.7 | it's great. I would agree. It's great. I will send you an autographed bookplate that says |
| 1:38.0 | remembers I'm a baby and my signature and has a stamp of my face on it. You can look on Twitter |
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