Hang Up and Listen - The How Fast Is DK Metcalf? Edition

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🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the upcoming NBA play-in tournament. They also discuss the latest brouhaha over violence in the National Hockey League and they assess NFL wide receiver DK Metcalf’s performance against pro sprinters.

NBA (2:49): Why LeBron James hates the play-in games and most everyone else loves them.

NHL (21:21): Does hockey have a cultural problem or a Tom Wilson problem?

DK Metcalf (43:03): He didn’t come close to winning. He still proved something.

Afterball (61:37): Josh on Armando Galarraga’s almost-perfect game, 10 years later.

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0:00.0	The following podcast includes explicit language.
0:07.3	Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 10th, 2021.
0:13.6	On this week's show, we're going to talk about the upcoming NBA play-in tournament, why LeBron James hates it, whether it's here to stay. We'll also discuss the
0:22.6	latest brouhaha over fighting in the National Hockey League and whether the sports bloodlust is ever
0:28.8	going to go away. And we'll assess what NFL wide receiver D.K. Medcath proved by finishing
0:35.5	not close to first place in the 100 meters at a California
0:39.7	track meet. I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen, the host of Slow Burn
0:43.7	Season 4 on David Duke. Also in D.C., Stefan Fatsas. He's the author of the book's Word Freak
0:50.1	in a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hello, Josh. With us from Out West, Slate Staff writer, host of Slow Burn Season 3 and the upcoming season
0:59.9	six, Joel Anderson.
1:02.0	Hey, Joel.
1:02.8	Hey, I'm, what's up, man?
1:04.0	How y'all doing this morning?
1:05.1	Doing okay, feeling like I don't exactly know what to small talk about and was just hoping
1:11.5	that something would develop organically?
1:13.8	I have two things then.
1:15.2	Have we had a chance to praise you for your contribution for the piece that ran in Slate?
1:20.7	Stefan, did we talk about that last week?
1:23.2	Did we catch up on that?
1:24.8	No.
1:25.5	I don't think we did.
1:26.7	About Josh's great piece that he wrote with Molly and Susan Matthews about.
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