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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of April 25th, 2016.

On today's show, we're going to talk about reigning National League MVP and Washington National Star Bryce Harper.

And whether he can make baseball fun again.

We'll also discuss ESPN's firing of transphobicobic dumbass Kurt Schilling.

They like our selection of topics.

And what that firing says about the politics of sports media.

And finally, and I hope this gets the biggest round of applause,

we'll be joined by U.S. women's National Team and Washington Spirit star Ali Krieger.

More popular than even Kurt Schilling.

She'll be talking with us about her World Cup win, her push for equal pay, and the future of women's pro soccer in the United States.

Joining me live on stage at the Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington, D.C.

It's the author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic, the amateur set bladder impersonator with the highest Scrabble rating.

It's Stefan Fatsis.

Thank you, Josh.

And also with us, it's the host of Slate's daily podcast, The Gist,

a man who believes in truth,

justice, vexelology, and the proportional counting of delegates.

Oh, my God.

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