Hang Up and Listen - The Little Tikes Hoop With a Saggy Pamper Edition
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🗓️ 7 May 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis is joined by ESPN’s Dave McMenamin to break down the epic buzzer-beater by LeBron James in Game 3 of the NBA’s Eastern Conference playoffs and by hockey writer Sean McIndoe to discuss the Stanley Cup playoffs. Slate’s Christina Cauterucci and Juliet Macur of the New York Times talk about the exploitative treatment of NFL cheerleaders. And ESPN’s Sam Miller explains how there were more strikeouts than hits in the major leagues in a month for the first time ever.
LeBron (3:15): Stefan and ESPN’s Dave McMenamin conduct a forensic breakdown of LeBron James’s seemingly impossible game-winning shot against the Toronto Raptors.
NHL playoffs (21:39): Stefan and hockey writer Sean McIndoe discuss the Vegas Golden Knights, the Winnipeg Jets, a rare playoff suspension, and Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins licking his opponents.
Cheerleaders (43:50): Slate’s Christina Cauterucci and Juliet Macur of the New York Times talk with Stefan about Juliet’s reporting on the treatment of cheerleaders for Washington’s NFL team
Baseballs (1:01:32): ESPN’s Sam Miller talks with Stefan about the decade-long rise in strikeouts and whether Major League Baseball needs to do something about it.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of May 7, 2018. |
| 0:20.7 | On this week's show, ESPN's Dave McMenaman and I will deconstruct the ridiculous shot by LeBron James that beat the Toronto Raptors in game three of their playoff series. |
| 0:32.8 | Hockey writer Sean McIndoo will stop by to discuss the NHL playoffs, including the Vegas Golden Knights, |
| 0:39.8 | and also what to do when one player licks another player. That's right, |
| 0:44.2 | Licks another player. Then Juliet McCur of the New York Times will be here to talk about her |
| 0:50.1 | report on the degrading treatment of the cheerleaders for Washington's National Football League team. |
| 0:56.1 | And finally, ESPN's Sam Miller will join me to talk about a milestone for the first time ever. |
| 1:03.2 | There were more strikeouts than hits in a month of Major League Baseball. |
| 1:08.8 | Josh Levine is Slate's editorial director. |
| 1:11.2 | He is away this week. |
| 1:12.7 | I am the author, most recently, of the Deadspin Post. |
| 1:16.7 | Jim Bob Ghostkeeper is the 2018 name of the year. |
| 1:20.3 | And I have to say that I feel like the voters got it right. |
| 1:23.2 | Ghostkeeper survived a regional that was stacked. |
| 1:26.5 | Salami Blessing, Miracle Crimes, Most High Thank God. |
| 1:30.1 | Then he beat Make-N-Love Petit Fard in the Final Four, and then the formidable Dr. Narwhal's mating in the final, with a hefty-five percent of the vote. |
| 1:41.3 | Our winner is a young hockey player out of Western Canada. His last name is a |
| 1:45.8 | translation from a cremettis word meaning keeper of the spirits. His first name is Jim Bob, one word. |
| 1:53.8 | That is a fine name all around. Congratulations to Jim Bob Ghostkeeper. All right, let's talk about |
| 2:00.6 | LeBron James. I could talk about LeBron James. |
| 2:01.4 | I could just say LeBron James 200 times in a row with different emphases and inflections, |
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