Hang Up and Listen - The Inside the NBA Insider Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2014
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss Kentucky's surplus of basketball talent. They also talk with Sports Illustrated executive editor Jon Wertheim about the future of sports TV and assess Yahoo NBA writer Adrian Wojnarowski.Show notes at slate.com/hangup
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| 0:00.0 | Hang Up and Listen is sponsored by the Short Game, Esquire Network's new series about some of the country's greatest young golfers and their caddies, who just happened to be their dads. |
| 0:08.9 | A revealing look at how hard we push our kids and at what cost. |
| 0:12.5 | Watch the full season of the short game on demand now on the Esquire Network. |
| 0:16.9 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:32.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate Sports Podcasts, Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 22, 2014. |
| 0:38.5 | On this week's show, we'll talk about John Calipari's Kentucky basketball steamroller, which is destroying every team in its path and could have as many as 10 future NBA players, which is more than the |
| 0:44.2 | Philadelphia 76ers have right now. Sports Illustrated executive editor John Worthy will join us |
| 0:50.3 | to look at the future of sports television and what will happen when millions more Americans join Mike Peska in cutting the cord. |
| 0:57.4 | One cord. |
| 0:58.5 | Everyone, grab a scissors. |
| 1:00.6 | We'll discuss a recent New Republic story on Yahoo sports writer, Adrian Wagenrowski, and Access |
| 1:07.4 | Sports Journalism. |
| 1:09.1 | And in our bonus segment for Slate Plus members, we'll assess whether Sacramento King's |
| 1:12.7 | owner Vivek Ronadive is crazy, a genius or a crazy genius. |
| 1:18.1 | Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak and a few |
| 1:23.1 | seconds of panic, and the Friday sports correspondent friend Piers, all things considered. |
| 1:29.0 | Crazy genius or crazy genius or a crazy genius neither none there are three things there there are three options so go with neither |
| 1:36.9 | and be opaque and mysterious about which one might be true opaque and mysterious that would be |
| 1:41.6 | the fourth yeah choice uh with us from new york isesca, the host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist, with Mike Pesca, the opaque and mysterious superhero, who protects us all from villains near and far. How are you, Mike? |
| 1:58.4 | I'm looking to become translucent. It's a tough process. |
| 2:02.8 | It's a journey. Someday. Yeah. We will all be translucent. I can't say transparent, |
| 2:07.8 | but translucent. That would be interesting if, you know, instead of a company saying, |
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