The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast. Hang up and listen for the week of August 18th, 2014.

On this week's show, we'll discuss the election of Rob Manfred, a name familiar to dozens of fans for his role in labor talks and drug policy as Major League Baseball's next commissioner and what it means for the sport.

We'll then turn to smaller baseball players and discuss the Little League World Series and the Youth Sports Industrial Complex with Mark Hyman, who has written three books about youth sports.

Finally, ESPN's Bonnie Ford will be with us to talk about FIFA's decision to play next year's

Women's World Cup on turf and whether that reflects unequal treatment for women in sports.

Slate executive editor and podcasting Improsario Josh Levine is away, vacationing, I believe, on a private island in the Saragasso Sea. I'm not even sure there are any islands in the Saragasa sea. It's probably pretty cold there. I've always just wanted to say Saragasso Sea. So joining me from New York is Mike Pesca, the host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist with Mike Pesca.

Hi, you, Mike Pesca.

The Saragasso Sea is 1100 kilometers wide, you know, the wide Saragosso Sea, I believe that was the name of a movie.

Yes, it was.

Yeah, and so how could it not have islands?

Yeah.

The Azores are in the Saragos.

Oh, they are?

Yeah.

See, I didn't know that. Do you know what the Saragasa Sea is named after? I'll give you three choices. You're ready?

Oh.

Okay.

Currents, the birds, or the seaweed? Currants. Saragosom seaweed. Oh. Damn. All right, cool. All right. We already got the trivia out of the way. Guestapalooza, too, the reckoning. Before we get started, Mike, I got to say,

I enjoyed your afterball last week about Molito Perez.

But you neglected some key factors. Two, The Reckoning. Before we get started, Mike, I got to say, I enjoyed your afterball last week about Molito Perez.

But you neglected some key facts about this true Yankee.

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