The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 11th, 2016.

On today's show, we'll talk about the opening week of the baseball playoffs, where the Red Sox and David Ortiz bowed out.

The Indians and Blue Jays moved on, and the Cubs are maybe going to be okay, or maybe not.

Who knows?

We'll also discuss the concept of locker room talk and what one talks about in a locker room.

And Scott Price of Sports Illustrated will join us to talk about his new book about football and Alequipa, Pennsylvania. It's called

Playing Through the Whistle, Steel Football, and an American town. Joining me in Washington,

D.C., a Stefan Fatsis, the author of Word Freak, and A Few Seconds of Panic.

Hello, Stefan.

Hello, Josh.

Good hosting.

Oh, thanks for entrusting me with the sacred duty.

Thank you.

Thank you for passing the Scepter back to me.

With us from New York is Mike Pesca, the host of Slate's Daily podcast, The Gist.

Also sacred.

Sure.

I like good hosting.

To me, it's like a, this isn't the case, but it sounds like it could be a phrase from

a bygone era, an idiom of a distant time.

Like in Hamilton, where they used to say, what you mistake, but

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