Hang Up and Listen - The Farewell to Zion Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Mike Pesca break down the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four and are joined by Lindsay Gibbs of ThinkProgress to discuss the women’s tournament. Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer talks about the new Major League Baseball season. And author Wayne Coffey comes on to discuss his new book, They Said It Couldn’t Be Done, about the miracle New York Mets of 1969.
Basketball (2:40): Despite one of the greatest collections of young talent ever, Duke didn’t make the Final Four. Despite a perceived snub of a No. 2 seed, the Connecticut women did.
Baseball (28:14): Major League Baseball has a labor problem: It has stopped overpaying older free agents but isn’t compensating its best young players at market rates.
Mets (48:38): Fifty years ago, the New York Mets went from one of the worst franchises in the history of pro sports to World Series champs.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Hang up and listen for the week of April 1st, 2019. |
| 0:17.4 | On this week's show, we'll discuss college basketball's Zionless men's final four and |
| 0:23.2 | Yukon Full Women's Final Four. |
| 0:26.5 | Then we'll hear from Ben Lindberg of the Ringer about baseball's opening days, the messed up |
| 0:31.4 | player market, and reasons to be excited about the new season. |
| 0:35.2 | And finally, author Wayne Coffey will join us to discuss his new book. |
| 0:39.3 | They said it couldn't be done about the Miracle New York Mets of 1969. |
| 0:44.9 | Mets fan and Slate editorial director Josh Levine is off this week. |
| 0:48.8 | Filling in for Josh is Mets fan Mike Peska, the host of Slate's Daily Podcast, The Gist. Hey, Mike. |
| 0:55.7 | Hello. |
| 0:56.7 | How are you? |
| 0:58.1 | And, and don't we list all your books, Stefan? Come on. |
| 1:01.2 | We're getting there. Give me a second. I got a whole bit queued up here, Mike. |
| 1:05.2 | Oh, oh, God bless you. |
| 1:06.8 | Got a whole bit cute. |
| 1:07.6 | How am I? |
| 1:09.0 | Yes. I'm well. I'm, uh, you know, the, uh, the, the final four is set. And it's |
| 1:15.8 | exciting. It's damn exciting. Yeah. All right. Can I make a suggestion for someone that you should |
| 1:20.0 | interview on the gist? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You should interview this Josh Levine guy. He has a new |
| 1:24.2 | book coming out in May. It's called the Queen, the forgotten life Behind an American Myth. I understand that you can pre-order it now. I'm 150 pages in. Me too. I think I'm exactly 150 pages in also. It's pretty fucking amazing, isn't it? It's really good. It's really good. Yeah. Again, the author's name is Josh Levine. He went with the Los Angeles Lakers color scheme. Maybe the L.S. Oh, wait a minute. |
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