Hang Up and Listen - The Crying Neymar Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss the World Cup with Ken Early of the Irish Times, the fate of the DH and Major League Baseball expansion with Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, and killing the NBA draft with Jay Caspian Kang of Vice News.
World Cup (2:00): Ken Early joins for a conversation about Argentina’s fall from grace, England’s impressive play, and Neymar’s meltdowns.
Baseball (20:20): Ben Lindbergh explains why likely expansion and realignment in MLB will lead to the welcome death of pitchers hitting.
NBA draft (38:27): Jay Caspian Kang talks about how replacing the NBA player draft with an open auction would end tanking and empower players.
Afterballs (58:05):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 25th, 2018. |
| 0:18.8 | On this week's show, Ken Early of the Irish Times joins us to talk about World Cup matters, |
| 0:23.6 | including whether this is the year for England, whether this is another year for Germany, |
| 0:28.3 | and whether it will ever be the year for Argentina. |
| 0:32.0 | It will again. |
| 0:33.6 | The ringers, Ben Lindberg, will also chat with us about baseball's devious plots to add more teams and more playoff teams and make the designated hitter a universal thing. |
| 0:45.7 | And Jay Caspian Kang will explain why it's time to kill the NBA draft and replace it with something better. |
| 0:53.1 | Joining me in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio this week is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's |
| 0:58.1 | Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic, and the Colt Minor League Baseball Classic, Wild |
| 1:03.6 | and Outside. |
| 1:04.3 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:04.9 | Hi, Josh. |
| 1:06.3 | That was an instruction from Remy as the man, the username from somebody who reviewed us on iTunes, |
| 1:13.1 | who describes him or herself as a first-time reviewer, long-time listener, and was wondering |
| 1:17.4 | why the Colt minor league baseball classic Wild and Outside does not get pub. |
| 1:23.2 | We do. |
| 1:23.5 | We give it pub sometimes. |
| 1:24.5 | Occasionally. |
| 1:25.0 | And we've discussed why. Before. |
| 1:28.5 | So, Remy, go back. Listen to every episode. We can't remember when it was, but we talked about why. I don't include that in my little biolo. The cult minor league baseball classic Wildenite Side. I like that part, though, cult. How about we start talking about the World Cup? Just get right into it. Let's be good hosts and invite our guest in right away, joining us from a media center in central Moscow. |
| 1:51.3 | It is Ken Early. |
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