Hang Up and Listen - The Making Adjustments Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
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🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by ESPN’s Jeff Passan to discuss the World Series matchup between the Astros and Nationals. The Ringer’s Kevin Clark also joins to talk about the Rams’ deal for Jalen Ramsey, and Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl assesses the U.S. men’s national soccer team.
World Series (01:45): How Houston and Washington made it and what to watch for when they square off.
Jalen Ramsey (19:47): Are the Rams outsmarting the rest of the NFL or outsmarting themselves?
U.S. soccer (34:59): Gregg Berhalter’s gotten off to a rough start. Is it time for the USMNT to cut bait and start over?
Afterballs (53:18): Stefan on the genius of @DonZemmer and Josh on a baseball walk-off conundrum.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.4 | Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:12.0 | This is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of October 21st, 2018. |
| 0:18.4 | On this week's show, ESPN's Jeff Passon will be here to discuss the Astros walkoff, |
| 0:22.6 | Game 6 win over the Yankees, and Houston's World Series matchup with the Washington |
| 0:26.9 | Nationals. |
| 0:28.0 | Kevin Clark of the Ringer will also be here to talk about the Rams trade for Jalen Ramsey, |
| 0:32.6 | the most all-end NFL transaction of the last decade, according to Kevin Clark. |
| 0:37.7 | And finally, Sports Illustrated's Grant Wall will chat with us about the state of the U.S. |
| 0:42.1 | men's national soccer team after its shocking, disgraceful loss to Canada. |
| 0:47.6 | Canada, Stefan. |
| 0:49.0 | Disgraceful! |
| 0:50.0 | What are we doing? |
| 0:51.2 | Joining me in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio, Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hi, Josh. Sad. Oh, yeah. I was upset. Oh, I was too viscerally. I was really angry. It's the only team you care about. It is. I was not upset when the Yankees lost in game six of the ALCS. Some would call you more of a sports scholar than a fan, but in this case, it's just all-splene. Live show, which organ are you going to put forward at our live show? On December 3rd. I'm reserving my organs. Some brain, some heart, some kidney. Whichever is the most appropriate on that date. Some pancreas. |
| 1:28.4 | December 3rd at the Hamilton Live in D.C. |
| 1:31.0 | Iles of Longerhans might be involved. |
| 1:33.6 | Ryan Longerhans, former short-lived major leaguer. |
| 1:37.0 | Slate.com slash live for tickets and information. |
| 1:39.9 | That is December 3rd, a Tuesday, Hamilton Live in D.C. |
| 1:46.1 | On Saturday in Houston, the Astros Jose Altuve had a walk-off two-run Homer of her oldest Chapman |
| 1:52.6 | to ensure that for the first time since the 1910s, the New York Yankees would go an entire |
| 1:58.3 | decade without making a World Series. |
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