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Hang Up and Listen - The How Tiger Lost His Stripes Edition

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pescsa discuss whether Tiger Woods will ever be great again. Writer James Andrew Miller also joins to talk about recent departures from ESPN, and author Molly Knight explains the Los Angeles Dodgers’ free-spending ways.


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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:07.9

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 20th, 2015.

0:14.1

On this week's show, we'll talk about the decline of Tiger Woods and whether he should just quit golf forever and crawl in a bunker somewhere and go to sleep.

0:22.4

After solving that one, we will talk to James Andrew Miller about what's going on at ESPN,

0:28.2

where subscriber numbers are down, and big names like Bill Simmons, Keith Oberman, and Colin Cowherd are headed out the door.

0:36.0

And baseball writer Molly Knight will talk to us about the Los Angeles

0:39.1

Dodgers spending spree and the Houston Astros remarkable rebuilding. Stefan Fatsis is out this week

0:45.9

is a thing that I used to say back when Stefan was on vacation. But back with me in Washington,

0:51.4

D.C. is the author of Word Freak in a few seconds of panic. A man who wished

0:56.4

he thought of the idea of throwing fake money at Set Blatter at a press conference. It's Stefan

1:01.4

Fatsis. Welcome back, Stadden. That's a good morning watching Set Blatter react to Dollar bills

1:06.4

cascading toward his head. He looked like he had never seen money before, which I found

1:10.4

implausible. He looked genuinely frightened, is seen money before, which I found implausible.

1:11.0

He looked genuinely frightened, is what he looked at.

1:13.3

At first he pointed his crooked little finger to get security to come over and escort the British comedian who pulled the stunt at a FIFA press conference in Zurich on Monday.

1:24.1

And then he sort of like leaped back in shock.

2:03.9

And it really is a fantastic jiff. I watched it many, many times. It's also a fantastic GIF, if you pronounce it correctly. That's an interesting conversation that we're not going to have. But FIFA, though, I mean, come on, there was a good reason for the press conference, too. They're reforming. I don't know if you heard, Josh. Did you hear that, Mike? No, what? They're going to reform. They're going to set up some committees. Because of the money, because of the dollars. To look into reform. Job British comedian. That's what we needed. He needs someone to make it rain. Yeah. There's going to be some task forces, too. Oh, Jesus. What, what, what, What color ribbon will the panels be? Just don't tell me it'll be...

2:01.8

It's an ad hoc task force, though? Okay. So I'm not sure if they've decided on a color yet. Uh-huh. I'll keep you posted. All right. I hope it's... So Pac-Man Jones is making it rain. It was always misinterpreted. He just wanted to start a task force. That's what that signified. Hey, Mike, it's Mike Peska,

2:18.9

host of Slate's Daily Podcast, The Just with Mike Pesca. He's in New York. Hi, Mike. How you doing?

2:24.8

One of the, the Guardian described it as set bladder being deluged with bank notes. We don't know

2:32.0

what dollars are. Bank notes.

2:35.2

Yeah.

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