Hang Up and Listen - The Duglegur Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss Jemele Hill, Jerry Jones, and Donald Trump with the Ringer’s Bryan Curtis. Yahoo’s Jeff Passan also joins to discuss the baseball playoffs, and Roger Bennett of Men in Blazers talks about Iceland’s World Cup dreams.
Politics and the NFL (1:10): Bryan Curtis joins for a conversation about ESPN’s suspension of Jemele Hill, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ directive that his players stand for the national anthem, and the increasing politicization of the NFL.
Baseball playoffs (22:52): Jeff Passan talks about Game 4 of the Astros-Red Sox series and the radical shift in how pitchers are deployed in the baseball postseason.
Iceland (37:01): Roger Bennett revels in the soccer triumphs of the smallest nation ever to qualify for the World Cup.
Afterballs (49:46):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of October 10th, 2017. |
| 0:16.8 | On this week's show, we'll be joined by Brian Curtis of the Ringer, to about ESPN's decision to suspend Jamel Hill and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones's directive to his players about standing for the national anthem. |
| 0:29.4 | Yahoo's Jeff Passon will also be here to talk about the first week of the baseball playoffs and how a typically change reverse game has made a radical shift when it comes to pitcher usage. |
| 0:39.8 | And Roger Bennett of Men and Blazers will be with us to revel in the soccer-playing majesty of Iceland, |
| 0:45.8 | which just became the smallest nation ever to qualify for the World Cup. |
| 0:50.6 | Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. |
| 0:57.1 | Congratulations, Stefan. |
| 0:58.2 | I'm excited, too. I'm excited about Iceland. |
| 1:01.2 | You know, it's not quite handball level Iceland, but it's pretty impressive. |
| 1:05.5 | It's a good Iceland. |
| 1:06.4 | It's good. All Iceland is good Iceland, Josh. |
| 1:08.8 | Top Iceland. |
| 1:10.1 | On Sunday in Indianapolis, Vice President Mike Pence left the game between the Colts and 49ers |
| 1:14.8 | in a premeditated gesture that was supposed to look like spontaneous disgust. |
| 1:20.0 | Pence's boss, Donald Trump, congratulated him for his valor. |
| 1:24.2 | While Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones, said after his team's loss to the Packers, that if any of his players disrespects the flag, then we will not play, period. |
| 1:34.7 | That night, Jamel Hill, the ESPN anchor, who you might recall referred to Donald Trump as a white supremacist on Twitter, which led to the White House calling for her firing, noted that Jones had signed |
| 1:45.5 | notorious domestic abuser Greg Hardy and had then proceeded to call him one of the real leaders |
| 1:50.9 | on this team. She also said Jones had put black Cowboys players in an untenable position, |
| 1:56.5 | writing, if they don't kneel, some will see them as sellouts. She followed that up with |
| 2:00.9 | Don't Ask Dak, Des, and other Cowboys players to protest. A more powerful statement is if you |
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