Hang Up and Listen - The Golden Age of Tanking Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Guest hosts Daniel Engber and David Epstein talk with Carl Bialik about robot line judges in tennis, Mike Pesca joins for a review of NBA tanking, and Florentina Hettinga discusses the science of the Paralympics. Robot umpires (1:47): Carl Bialik discusses the latest innovation in line-calling technology and how it might affect tennis. Tanking (18:25): Hang Up host emeritus Mike Pesca chats about why there’s more tanking than ever in the NBA and what might be done about it. Paralympics (36:09): Sports scientist Florentina Hettinga sheds light on debates over classification in the world of disability sports. Afterballs (45:39):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.6 | Hi, this is Daniel Engber, contributing editor at Slate. |
| 0:16.5 | Josh and Stefan are out, so I'll be your limited time only special edition guest host on Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 5th, 2018. |
| 0:27.1 | On this week's show, we'll be joined by tennis superfan and super podcaster Carl Bialik to talk about automated officiating the death of the line judge in tennis and when we should expect the referee robots |
| 0:38.2 | to rise up and become our sports overlords. Then Mike Peska of the gist will drop by to discuss |
| 0:43.7 | the orgy of intentional losing that now seems to be taking place in the NBA and whether it |
| 0:48.9 | can or should be stopped. And finally, Dr. Florentina Hatinga of the University of Essex will join us to talk about |
| 0:55.6 | the Winter Paralympic Games in Korea, which start on Friday, and some of the confusing and |
| 1:01.1 | interesting issues around the science of elite athletes with disabilities. Joining me from Slate's |
| 1:06.5 | Washington, D.C. office as my co-guest host this week is David Epstein, formerly of ProPublica |
| 1:12.7 | and Sports Illustrated, and author of The New York Times bestseller, The Sports Gene Inside |
| 1:17.4 | the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance. Hello, David. |
| 1:21.1 | Hey, thanks for having me. David, I want to start by saying I've always been impressed by the breadth |
| 1:26.8 | of your work and talent. |
| 1:30.5 | But I just came across what I think is maybe your last published article, which is an editorial in the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. |
| 1:40.6 | Well, I published an obituary for Sir Roger Bannister yesterday, so you're out of date now. |
| 1:46.4 | Okay. |
| 1:48.5 | Last Thursday, tennis writer Cindy Schmurler published a piece in the New York Times about a new umpiring technology that debuted last November at the next gen ATP finals in Milan, |
| 1:58.6 | and then was tried again at the Del Rey Beach Open a few weeks ago. |
| 2:01.7 | Called Hawkeye Live, it's a radical extension of the multi-camera system that's been in place at major tennis events for more than a decade. |
| 2:08.7 | That one only comes into play when players make a formal challenge of a call made by a human line judge or chair umpire. |
| 2:14.8 | With Hawkeye Live, this human element has been removed altogether. Now, |
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