Hang Up and Listen - The Crotch-Chopping, Bat-Flipping Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2018
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis is joined by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer and Emma Baccellieri of Sports Illustrated to discuss the baseball playoffs; by author Michael Sokolove and Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports to talk about college basketball’s corruption trial; and by writer Liam Boylan-Pett and history professor Louis Moore to discuss Bob Beamon’s record-shattering long jump and his underreported civil-rights protest at the 1968 Olympics.
Baseball (1:01): The Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers are meeting in the World Series as the two hottest, and probably the two best, teams in baseball.
Basketball trial (23:55): The federal government’s case against three bit players in the business of college basketball player recruiting masks the actual problem with the sport: the NCAA.
Bob Beamon (47:43): Sports fans are familiar with Bob Beamon’s record long jump at the Olympics in Mexico City 50 years ago. But his medal-stand protest was overshadowed by that of Tommie Smith and John Carlos.
Afterballs (1:05:38): Stefan talks about whether boys should be allowed to play on girls’ field-hockey teams—and a gripping game in which one was.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:14.5 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast. |
| 0:18.3 | Hang up and listen for the week of October 22nd, 2018. On this week's |
| 0:22.7 | show, it's a guest-a-pelooza. Ben Lindberg of the Ringer and Emma Bachelary of Sports Illustrated |
| 0:28.7 | will preview the World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers. |
| 0:34.5 | Author Michael Sokolov and Yahoo's Dan Wetzel will discuss the ongoing college |
| 0:39.0 | basketball corruption trial, which has surfaced big names, but also the small-time behavior |
| 0:44.5 | of bit players in the multi-billion dollar business. And finally, writer Liam Boylan |
| 0:50.4 | Pet and Professor Lewis Moore will talk about Bob Beeman's record-shattering long jump 50 years ago and the Olympics civil rights protest that went largely unnoticed. |
| 1:01.8 | Josh Levine is off this week. I'll be trying to go nine here in Slate's Washington, D.C. studios. |
| 1:07.7 | Or maybe I'll just pitch to one batter and go home. Only my right UCL and the |
| 1:13.2 | crafty manager knows for sure. Joining me now to discuss actual non-metaphorical baseball are the |
| 1:19.9 | aforementioned Ben Lindberg. Hey, Ben. Hey, Stefan. Good to be back. And the aforementioned Emma |
| 1:25.9 | Bachelary. Hey, Emma. Hi. |
| 1:28.1 | All right, Dodgers Red Sox, 102 years since they met in a series. |
| 1:32.4 | Not that that's especially relevant. |
| 1:34.6 | It was Brooklyn against Boston then. |
| 1:36.1 | And it's 100 years since 1918, which I hoped would never stop being a chant in the Bronx. |
| 1:42.1 | But alas, is no more three times over. Ben, this could be very good. |
| 1:48.2 | Big market teams quibbling about who's the bigger market. Lots of young and interesting players. |
| 1:57.0 | I'm excited about this, even though I hate Boston, or maybe that's why I'm excited about it, |
| 2:01.2 | because I think they might lose. I am too. I barely remember that 1916 Red Sox versus Brooklyn |
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