Hang Up and Listen - The Flaming Pile of Garbage Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about the Steelers-Bengals pro football catastrophe. Neil deMause of the website Field of Schemes joins to discuss the NFL's Los Angeles schemes. Finally, they assess the 2016 Baseball Hall of Fame voting.
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| 0:00.0 | Hang Up and Listen is brought to you by Credit Karma. |
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| 0:19.9 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:28.2 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of January 11th, 2016. |
| 0:34.7 | We'll talk about the post-apocalyptic hellscape slash football game between the Pittsburgh |
| 0:39.5 | Steelers and Cincinnati Bengals and other happenings on the NFL's Wild Card Weekend. We'll also be |
| 0:45.5 | joined by Neil DeMoss of the website Field of Schemes to discuss the maneuvering by the St. Louis |
| 0:51.2 | Rams, San Diego Chargers, and Oakland Raiders to become the next pro football team or teams to play in Los Angeles. And we'll assess the voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame where Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza got elected. And Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, and David Eckstein did not. Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds |
| 1:11.5 | of panic. Who would have voted for David Eckstein if he was eligible? |
| 1:15.0 | For the scrappy ballot? Scrapster. First ballot. First ballot. The fact that he only got two |
| 1:22.3 | votes is really disgraceful. He scrapped. He scraped together two votes. He scraped together |
| 1:26.8 | two votes. A lot of other votes were recorded on the scrap paper. Got a lot of votes that were not really counted. Yeah. Because of the intangibles. Right. Votes that don't show up in the actual voting. Right. They really don't show up in the actual voting. Correct. Yeah. Yeah, he's a first ballot Hall of Famer when you consider votes that don't exist. Yeah. All right. |
| 1:44.6 | Mike Peska, the host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist with Mike Peska. How are you, Mike? Well. I'm glad to hear that. I got enough votes to remain on the ballot for next year. Well, that's a relief. I want to see you drop off. Speaking of relief, Trevor Hoffman. |
| 1:58.2 | Are we going to get to him? |
| 1:59.1 | That big question mark? |
| 2:00.9 | Sure. |
| 2:01.5 | All right, good. |
| 2:02.1 | Whatever you want. |
| 2:02.9 | Let's do it. |
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