Hang Up and Listen - The Liberty Bring Ticker-tape Back to Broadway
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🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh talk about the New York Liberty’s victory over the Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA Finals. They also get into Tom Brady’s controversial new ownership stake in the Las Vegas Raiders, and the World Series picture. In the Bonus episode exclusively for Slate Plus subscribers, the panel discusses University of Virginia men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett’s retirement announcement.
WNBA Finals (10:02): The Liberty bring home the glory
Tom Brady (32:38): The broadcaster and now team owner
World Series (47:04): Clash of the evil empires
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| 0:47.0 | Welcome back to Hangup and Listen, Slate's Sports Podcast. |
| 0:51.0 | Back with you again, I am Alex Kirsner. I'm a contributing writer at |
| 0:54.2 | Slate where I cover all kinds of sporting topics and I co-host the college football |
| 0:58.8 | podcast Split Zone Duo. I've got a great panel with me you are getting to know them well. This week we will talk |
| 1:04.4 | about the New York Liberty claiming their first W&B a championship Tom Brady's |
| 1:08.7 | absurd conflict of interest as the new owner of the Las Vegas Raiders and a broadcaster at Fox and the impending world |
| 1:14.8 | series between two clubs from the only cities in America, New York and Los Angeles. |
| 1:20.2 | Back in the saddle this week is Ben Lindbergh, he's a senior editor for the Ringer and is a co-host of the effectively wild podcast. |
| 1:26.4 | He co-authored the MVP machine how baseball's new non-conformists are using data to build better players and the only rule is it has to work, our wild experiment |
| 1:35.4 | building a new kind of baseball team, you might know him, if not from these spots on Hangup |
| 1:39.6 | and Listen, from his previous work at Grantland or 538 or as the editor-in-chief of |
| 1:45.0 | baseball prospectus. Ben, how are you? |
| 1:47.8 | Still coming down from the high of my Sunday night split screening of Liberty Links |
| 1:52.2 | Game 5 and Mets Dodgers game six the best of |
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