The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 5th, 2015.

On this week's show, we'll talk about the U.S. women's national team's resounding 5-2 win over Japan in the Women's World Cup final. We'll also discuss the start

of NBA Free Agency with Lamarcus Aldridge moving from Portland to San Antonio, D'Andre

Jordan from the L.A. Clippers to Dallas and Yahoo's Adrian Wojnerowski tweeting five more moves

in the time it took me to recite the sentence. Finally, we will evaluate ESPN's use of the K-Zone graphic, whether the superimposed

strike zone is a genius sports television innovation or an annoying box that won't get

off my screen.

Stefan Fatsis will be with us shortly on the phone from Vancouver, where he has been

serving as Carly Lloyd's life coach.

With us this week is Grantland's Brian Curtis, who is in our New York studio filling Stefan's cleats.

How are you, Brian?

Doing just great.

Sorry, I meant to say, talk about what it's like to sit in for Stefan.

I usually at this point falsely claim to be the author of Word Freak in a few seconds of panic, but I believe since Stefan's actually on, I'm going to decline this time on that one. Wait, I have another question for you. Has the feeling of sitting in for Stefan sunk in yet? Ooh, good question. Let me think about that. Has anyone ever answered that, Mike, you can field this too. Has anyone ever answered? Has it sunk in yet with yes? It has already sunk in. Right now, you know, right now, I guess maybe tomorrow. Right now we're just enjoying this. Has it sunk in? When do you know it's sunk in? You can only say that in retrospect in retrospect no one says it's sunk in i'm thinking about going to the grocery store and get some stuff

for the weekend i would like the the the word you need to rely on as when answering that question is

surreal because surreal is no real definition it is itself surreal you sound a little smarter

than most people say you know it, it's just surreal. Oh,

oh, it's a reference perhaps to the da-daists. I'll take it. I feel like since Fox Sports

1 probably doesn't have that much going on now the Women's World Cup is over, they should just have a

sunk-in cam on Carly Lloyd. Just follow her every move for the next few days and at some point declare that it has sunk in.

Because we just don't ever get the follow-up of when it sinks in.

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