Hang Up and Listen - The Bronx Bombers’ Big Boppers Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2017
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Warren Cromartie and the Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh to discuss Shohei Ohtani and Giancarlo Stanton; David Epstein joins to assess Russia’s Olympics ban; and Daniel Libit talks about his muckraking site NM Fishbowl.
Shohei Ohtani and Giancarlo Stanton (2:10): Former Japanese League star Warren Cromartie assesses how Japanese star Shohei Ohtani will perform in the major leagues, while Ben Lindbergh explains the economics of the Los Angeles Angels’ deal with Ohtani and the Yankees’ trade for slugger Giancarlo Stanton.
Russia’s Olympics ban (25:21): David Epstein explains the International Olympic Committee’s move to (kind of) ban Russia from the Winter Games.
NM Fishbowl (41:57): Daniel Libit talks about his year-long effort to investigate New Mexico athletics and whether the model could work nationwide.
Afterballs (1:05:55):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.8 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, |
| 0:16.0 | for the week of December 11th, 2017. |
| 0:19.1 | On this week's show, we'll be joined by former major leaguer and Japanese |
| 0:22.4 | league legend, Warren Crow Marty for a conversation about Shohei Otani, the much-hyped |
| 0:28.1 | pitcher slash hitter, who just signed a deal with the Anaheim Angels. The ringers Ben Lindberg |
| 0:33.7 | will also be with us to discuss Otani and the New York Yankees acquisition of Giancarlo Stanton as part of the Marlin's latest fire sale. |
| 0:41.9 | We'll then talk with David Epstein of ProPublica about the International Olympic Committee's move to ban Russia from the Winter Olympics and the Trump administration's posturing about the U.S. maybe, but probably not, but actually really not, skipping out on the |
| 0:55.9 | games in South Korea. Finally, Daniel Libet will be here to tell us why he started a muck-raking |
| 1:01.1 | website about New Mexico athletics and what he found once he started digging into the |
| 1:07.5 | semy doings of a college athletic department. Joining me in Washington, D.C. as Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few |
| 1:14.1 | Seconds of Panic. Hello, Stefan. Welcome back, Josh. Thank you very much. A couple of |
| 1:20.7 | orders of business. We're thinking about doing a conundrums show as an end of the year, DeLeo, coming up to Christmas and New |
| 1:30.3 | years. You've probably heard, maybe heard, you should have heard the political gab fest shows |
| 1:35.7 | on conundrums. The classic one is, would you rather be a fish or a tree? If you have fish |
| 1:42.4 | slash tree type sports conundrums for us, please post them on our |
| 1:47.2 | Facebook page, Facebook.com slash hang up and listen. I'll start a thread for that, and you can |
| 1:53.0 | hop in there. We're also looking for an intern for the new year starting in January. |
| 1:59.9 | If you're in D.C. and you're interested in helping us out on |
| 2:02.4 | Mondays doing some research on the weekends, email us at hangup at slate.com. |
| 2:09.4 | On the phone with us now from Miami is Warren Crow Marty, who played for the Montreal Expos |
| 2:14.5 | for nine years in the 70s and 80s before going to Japan, where he |
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