The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 24th, 2016.

On today's show, we'll talk about the Cubs Indians World Series matchup, the idea of the long-suffering sports fan base,

and whether a Cubs title is indeed the last great American sports story. We'll also discuss

the upcoming season premiere of our National Soap Opera, the National Basketball Association,

and Dead Spins Diana Moskowitz will join us to look at the NFL's handling of the Josh Brown domestic abuse case and the finding by a civil jury that Derek Rose is not liable on charges of gang rape. Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, the author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. Hello, Stefan. Hello, Josh.

Mike Peska is out this week, filling in for him, joining us from his lavish home, complete with a studio

quality microphone. It's Pablo Torre, senior writer at ESPN. You may have seen him on such television

programs as a round the horn, highly questionable, and pardon the interruption.

Hello, Pablo.

Do I need to do a Mike Peska impression or am I, like, good being myself?

Nobody can impress Mike Pesco.

Fair.

Can you use impress as a verb that way?

You're the dictionary guy, dude.

It's true. I am the dictionary guy. If you can't, you will be able to soon, I promise. So, Pablo, we're going to start with whimsy watch. Search for whimsy in the most non-whimsical of places, the NFL. So Stefan is really psyched about the Eli Manning audible call at the line of scrimmage in the London game.

Let's listen to that.

Hey, Trump, Trump, Trump.

You're coming to the saddle on your ball.

Are you aware, Pablo, that Eli Manning is denying that he said Trump?

I saw that yesterday, and part of me was hoping that there was something to the theory,

which I have just developed, that he was actually paying homage to the John Oliver Drump

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