Hang Up and Listen - The How Many Altuves Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss Colin Kaepernick’s collusion grievance. They’re also joined by Evan Drellich to talk about Houston Astros star Jose Altuve, and by Caitlin Murray for a conversation about the Portland Thorns women’s soccer team.
Kaepernick and collusion (1:50): Stefan and Josh assess whether Kaepernick’s grievance against the NFL has a chance of succeeding and what the quarterback has to gain from pressing a collusion claim
Jose Altuve (19:36): Former Houston Astros beat writer Evan Drellich explains how the 5-foot-6 second baseman transformed himself into one of the best players in baseball.
Portland Thorns (37:25): Freelance writer Caitlin Murray discusses whether the National Women’s Soccer League champions provide a model for success for other women’s pro sports franchises.
Afterballs (52:34):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 16th, 2017. |
| 0:18.6 | On this week's show, we'll discuss Colin Kaepernick's collusion claim against the NFL and whether |
| 0:23.2 | it has any chance to succeed. We'll also talk to Evendrelic, the former Astros beat writer for the |
| 0:29.0 | Houston Chronicle, about one of the biggest anomalies in the history of baseball, the team's |
| 0:34.3 | five-foot-six-inch or maybe five-foot-fiveinch superstar Jose Al-Tuve, and Caitlin Murray, who writes |
| 0:41.5 | about soccer for the New York Times and other outlets, will join us for a conversation about |
| 0:45.5 | whether the Portland Thorns, who won the National Women's Soccer League Championship over the weekend, |
| 0:50.5 | are a model for success in women's sports, or a non-replicable outlier. |
| 0:55.8 | Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few |
| 1:00.2 | Seconds of Panic. |
| 1:01.8 | Replicable outlier. |
| 1:04.0 | I like that. |
| 1:05.2 | I like that. |
| 1:05.7 | If you haven't listened to our bonus episode from last week, we did one on the U.S. men's national soccer |
| 1:14.0 | team's disastrous loss to Trinidad, which knocked them out of the World Cup. You can find that |
| 1:20.1 | extra episode wherever you usually find this podcast. And if you didn't read it, Stefan convened a |
| 1:25.1 | roundtable on that failure, which we published on Slate last week. If you're looking for a 5,000 word discussion on the future of the men's national team program, this isn't the piece for you. But if you're looking for a 4,000 word discussion of the future of the men's program, then you should probably check it out. Stefan is nodding. I endorse it. I think it could have been $5,000. |
| 1:45.8 | If you want the $5,000 word, we can do that one next week. |
| 1:49.9 | On Sunday, a day in which Aaron Rogers and James Winston went down with injuries, |
| 1:55.3 | and Brian Hoyer got benched by the 49ers who gave the ball to the immortal C.J. |
| 1:59.9 | Betherd. |
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