The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast hanging up and listen for the week of July 18th, 2016.

On this week's show, we'll be joined by Cleveland Brown's wide receiver, Andrew Hawkins,

to talk about the state

of athlete activism and the aftermath of the shootings of Philando Castile and Alton

Sterling and the killing of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge. Jason Gay of the Wall

Street Journal will be here to help us assess the Tour de France and why race leader Chris Frum

ran up a mountain. Finally, we'll look at the Tour de France and why race leader Chris Frum ran up a mountain.

Finally, we'll look at the debate over wages in minor league baseball and what should be done

about the paltry pay in the sports lowest rungs.

Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of Word Freak in a few seconds of panic.

Welcome back, Stefan.

Hello, Josh.

And back to his customary spot in the number two hole in the lineup, where he is responsible

for bunting Stefan into scoring position on a weekly basis. I'm fast and scrappy. I get on.

It's Mike Peska, the host of the jest. Hey, Mike. Advanced metrics indicate that the number two hitters should be one of your best hitters, actually.

Maybe your best hitter.

Yeah, we're scrappy, though.

So it's good to have everybody back together.

We had made a promise a long time ago, and the lesson here is never promise anything to talk about the OJ made an America documentary series.

We are going to talk about it this week on the Slate Plus bonus segment.

It's a documentary about OJ.

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