Hang Up and Listen - The Cavalcade of Whimsy Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl to talk about the race for the U.S. Soccer presidency, and Mike Pesca comes on to talk about NFL celebrations, the Miami turnover chain, and inspirational locker room speeches.
U.S. Soccer (1:30): SI’s Grant Wahl talks about the contenders for the top job in U.S. Soccer, why no women are running for the position, and whether promotion and relegation is coming to an American soccer field near you.
Mid-Season Whimsy Spectacular (18:33): The original Hang Up trio of Stefan, Josh, and Mike Pesca reunite for a check-in about the state of whimsy in football. Should the NFL get credit for its celebration renaissance? Is the Miami turnover chain amazing, spectacular, or transcendent?
Afterballs (44:11):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of November 13th, 2017. |
| 0:20.2 | On this week's show, Sports Illustrated's Grant Wall will join us to talk about the fierce competition. |
| 0:25.6 | Maybe it's a Titanic struggle or an epic brawl to take the top position at U.S. soccer, |
| 0:31.9 | where businessy dudes and former players are vying to become the group's next president. |
| 0:39.2 | And our old pal, Mike Pesco, will join us for a mid-season cavalcade of whimsy, wherein we'll look at the NFL's |
| 0:44.3 | Renaissance of In-Zone Celebration, the University of Miami's turnover chain, and locker room |
| 0:50.6 | speeches that may or may not inspire teams to victory. Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Or should I say, go out there and win the podcast. Stefan. Fight, fight, fight, fight, team, we're going to go out there and we're going to do it today. We're going to podcast our best. I'm like so stoked right now. I could run through. That was my Newt Rockney impersonation and we'll play that clip later. I could run through one of those egg-cray-shaped things that are on the wall of our podcast studio for sound dampening purposes. That's how pumped I am. Stefan, would you like to intro our first segment? |
| 1:29.1 | I would. |
| 1:29.6 | It was a big, big week for U.S. soccer, the women's national team, |
| 1:33.1 | gearing up for qualifying next year for the 2019 Women's World Cup. |
| 1:36.9 | They tied and won friendlies against rival Canada. |
| 1:40.4 | And the men's national team featuring household names like Kellynne Rowe, Lyndon Gooch, |
| 1:46.5 | Weston McKinney, and Josh Sargent is in Portugal for a friendly on Tuesday that kicks off the |
| 1:52.7 | United States run to qualify for the 20-22 World Cup in Qatar. |
| 2:00.4 | Proceeds from the game will benefit victims of wildfires in central and northern Portugal. |
| 2:04.9 | We've got that. |
| 2:06.0 | Back home in the aftermath of the men's failure to qualify for the next World Cup in Russia next year, |
| 2:12.3 | the field is indeed getting crowded to elect a president of the U.S. Soccer Federation. |
| 2:18.0 | Grant Wall writes about soccer for Sports Illustrated. |
| 2:20.7 | He is here. |
| 2:21.6 | Hey, Grant. |
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