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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 8th, 2014.

On this week's show, we're going to talk about the crazily exciting opening week of the baseball playoffs,

and whether we're ruining it all by

constantly complaining about how dumb all of the managers are. Ned Eust, come on, man, with the

bunting. Matt Williams, you got to put in Clippard. We'll also discuss the NBA's new

$24 billion TV deal and whether the somebody

K.L. Prokharoff is here. Somebody just went long on NBA TV deals. We'll discuss

whether the TV sports bubble is about to burst. That guy might be sad. And for our last

segment, we'll be joined by writer and

raconteur, Roy Blund Jr. will ask him about his classic book on the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers,

about three bricks shy of a load, and how football has changed since he spent a year with one of the

NFL's most legendary teams. We are recording this week's show live at Galapagos Art Space in lovely Brooklyn, New York,

and we are doing so in front of a live audience that will now confirm that it will now confirm that it can read my thoughts, that it is both live and an audience.

Thank you very much, live audience.

Alongside me is Pelham Pelican, Stefan Fatsis.

He is the author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic,

the Friday sports correspondent for NPR's All Things Considered.

Hello, Stefan.

Hello, Josh.

Hello, everybody.

And also here with us is another New Yorker, two-thirds of us being New Yorkers.

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