Hang Up and Listen - The LeBron to the Golden State Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2018
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley to discuss LeBron to the Lakers, Sports Illustrated’s Luis Miguel Echegaray talks about the World Cup, and the Political Gabfest’s Emily Bazelon assesses the controversy over Luke Heimlich.
LeBron (1:16): How will the NBA’s balance of power shift now that the league’s best player is on the West Coast? What does LeBron’s departure mean for Cleveland? And will the Lakers be able to compete with the Warriors?
World Cup (27:26): How disappointed should Mexico be after yet another Round of 16 departure? Also, does Russia have a chance to win it all?
Luke Heimlich (44:43): The Oregon State baseball star went undrafted after it came out that he’d pled guilty to a sex crime as a juvenile. Should he get a chance to play in the major leagues?
Afterballs(1:11:58): Stefan on Pele in America and Josh on a new perspective for the penalty shootout.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.7 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 2, 2018. |
| 0:17.8 | On this week's show, LeBron. |
| 0:20.7 | Lakers, LeBron? Lakers, LeBron. Our colleague, Ben Mathis Lilley, will join us and we will LeBron together. Sports Illustrated's Luis Miguel Eshagaray will be here to talk about Brazil's win over Mexico and other World Cup matters. And Emily Bazelon of Slate's political |
| 0:39.7 | Gab Fest will be here to discuss the case of Luke Heimlich, the Oregon State Baseball star, |
| 0:45.2 | who has gone undrafted by Major League teams after it came out that he'd pled guilty to a sex |
| 0:50.0 | crime as a juvenile. Joining me in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio this week is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. Hello, Stefan. Hey, Josh. It's made your itinerary easier. You don't have to worry about watching Iceland and the World Cup. It must have eased your mind. It has a little bit. And if like Russia makes it to the semifinals, it'll ease it |
| 1:11.7 | even more if we're like, you know, walking on a glacier and I can't watch. We'll get to that in a |
| 1:17.1 | second. Let's start with LeBron James. On Sunday night at 8 p.m. Eastern, LeBron's agency |
| 1:23.6 | clutch sports group announced in a short press release that very curiously did not have any |
| 1:28.8 | hyphens, that LeBron James, four-time NBA MVP, three-time NBA Finals MVP, etc. |
| 1:35.6 | Had agreed to a four-year, $154 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. |
| 1:41.1 | Four years, $154 million. |
| 1:43.6 | Although James said goodbye to Cleveland and Cavaliers fans in an |
| 1:47.1 | Instagram story, he has made no other comment and apparently has left the country. Maybe he's |
| 1:53.0 | going to film Le Decision in a Boys and Girls Club somewhere in France. But in the King's |
| 1:58.9 | absence, it's left to us peons to make sense of this move, |
| 2:03.0 | which is at once totally understandable, good franchise, young talent. He's got houses in L.A., |
| 2:08.4 | entertainment industry, good opportunities for the kids. And it's also, but it's also totally |
| 2:13.4 | insane. And that LeBron is now on the goddamn Lakers, and also every great player in the |
| 2:18.8 | entire NBA, except for maybe Janus, is now in the Western Conference. Joining us now to discuss |
| 2:25.3 | is Ben Mathis Lilly, who writes about the news for Slate, and by virtue of his having |
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