Hang Up and Listen - The Golden State Calf Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Athletic’s Marcus Thompson to discuss the Raptors’ rise and the possible end of the Warriors’ dynasty. Louisa Thomas of the New Yorker also joins to talk about the French Open. Finally, Thompson returns for a conversation about analytics and race.
NBA Finals (2:38): Can Kevin Durant save the Warriors’ season? Are the Raptors just the better team?
French Open (16:03): How Ashleigh Barty won her first grand slam and Rafael Nadal took his 12th title at Roland Garros.
Analytics and race (32:19): Are advanced stats making the league’s front offices whiter?
Afterballs (50:32): Josh on Mariano Puerta’s contaminated water glass and Stefan on Ada Hegerberg.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast. Hang up and listen for the week of June 10th, 2019. |
| 0:15.9 | Marcus Thompson of the Athletic will be here to break down the breakdown of the Golden State Warriors as they |
| 0:22.0 | face elimination in the NBA finals at the large hands of Kauai Leonard and some other dudes from |
| 0:27.5 | Canada. |
| 0:28.6 | Louisa Thomas of the New Yorker will join us to discuss Rafael Nadal's 12th French open title |
| 0:33.8 | and Ashley Barty's first. |
| 0:35.8 | And finally, we'll rejoin Marcus to have a conversation |
| 0:39.6 | about race, analytics, and hiring in the NBA. |
| 0:44.4 | Josh Levine is the national editor of Slate Magazine and the author of The Queen, |
| 0:49.1 | The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth. Josh is in Chicago, where he had a book-filled weekend. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey, Josh. |
| 0:57.1 | Hey, I'm sure all of you guys saw me on C-SPAN 2. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm trying not to let it get to my head. |
| 1:02.5 | It was C-SPAN 2. |
| 1:03.9 | I was watching C-SPAN 1. |
| 1:07.1 | Yeah, so we got moved to C-SPAN 2 because, you know, whatever was on C-SPAN, one ran over, probably like a really hot legislative debate. |
| 1:19.6 | Just couldn't move it. |
| 1:20.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.2 | That's understandable. |
| 1:22.1 | I hope it didn't affect the ratings too much. |
| 1:24.0 | Book TV. |
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