Hang Up and Listen - The Greyhens Not Grayhens Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by sportswriter Jessica Luther to discuss girls in baseball. Dan Nosowitz also talks about trends in basketball sneakers, and Scrabble champion Will Anderson comes on the show to recount his victory.
Girls in Baseball (1:29): Jessica Luther joins to describe her time covering the elite Girls Travel Baseball team, why girls are dissuaded from playing baseball in high school, and what can be done to increase female participation in the sport.
Death of the High-Top (15:53): Esquire contributor Dan Nosowitz assesses Kobe Bryant’s role in the decline of high-top basketball shoes, whether the ankle support actually works, and how sneaker-makers are finding more ways to sell shoes.
Scrabble (29:38): An interview with Will Anderson, 2017 the North American Scrabble champion, with analysis of his victory, the debate over Boggle versus Scrabble, and some stump-the-champ anagramming.
Afterballs (50:57):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.5 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of July 31st, 2017. |
| 0:21.1 | On this week's show, we'll be joined by writer Jessica Luther to talk about why, with Jessica |
| 0:26.3 | Mendoza in the ESPN booth and Fox debuting and then canceling a show about the first |
| 0:32.6 | female big leaguer, why so few girls play baseball and what should be done about it. |
| 0:38.1 | Then Dan Nassowitz will be here to talk about his piece for Esquire about the death of the |
| 0:43.6 | high top basketball shoe. |
| 0:45.6 | And finally, it'll be my great honor to welcome to the show Will Anderson, the newly crowned |
| 0:51.1 | champion of Scrabble in North America. |
| 0:54.0 | Will crushed the field last week in New Orleans to win his first title. |
| 0:59.0 | We're doing a little Sadie Hawkins thing here today, joining me in Washington, is Slate's editorial director. |
| 1:05.2 | You may know him. |
| 1:06.2 | Josh Levine. |
| 1:07.5 | How does it feel to be me this week, Josh? |
| 1:09.6 | I always get Sadie Hawkins confused with Sophie B. Hawkins, sort of like Mina Kimes with |
| 1:14.7 | Bella Caroli and Bella Lagosie. |
| 1:16.9 | If you can Photoshop Sophie B. Hawkins into a hang-up and listen scenario for me, because |
| 1:23.4 | the listeners are now taking requests for Photoshoppery. |
| 1:26.9 | I would appreciate it. Thank you. |
| 1:29.4 | Nationwide, more than 100,000 girls play Little League and Youth Baseball. |
| 1:33.3 | But after that, the numbers plummet. |
| 1:36.2 | Just 1,296 girls total played high school baseball last year, according to the National Federation of State High School |
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