Hang Up and Listen - The Miami Marlins Have a Coronavirus Outbreak
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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In this Plus Preview, Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about the spread of COVID in Major League Baseball. What should the Miami Marlins and Major League Baseball do in response to the team’s coronavirus outbreak?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hang up listeners. You're about to hear a preview of this week's episode of the show. |
| 0:05.0 | The coronavirus pandemic has made it a challenge for us to do this show in a financially |
| 0:09.3 | sustainable way. Because of that, we're temporarily changing how we do the podcast. Every other week, |
| 0:17.1 | the full Hangup and Listen will be for Slate Plus members only, with just the first segment |
| 0:22.5 | available to non-members. If you want to hear every word of every episode that we do, |
| 0:28.6 | you need to subscribe to Slate Plus. It's only $35 for the first year, and your membership will |
| 0:34.9 | help assure that we can continue doing HangUp and Listen for a very long time. |
| 0:39.4 | If you want to subscribe, go to Slate.com slash hangup plus. |
| 0:44.0 | That's slate.com slash hangup plus. |
| 0:46.9 | And thanks so much for supporting the show. |
| 0:50.9 | The following podcast contains naughty language. |
| 1:00.7 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor. |
| 1:03.8 | This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 27, 2020. |
| 1:08.0 | On this week's show, we'll discuss how the sports world's various and sundry coronavirus |
| 1:12.0 | bubbles and non-bubbles are and are not working. In the case of Major League Baseball, definitely |
| 1:19.4 | not working. We'll also talk about the cardboard cutouts, virtual fans, and simulated crowd |
| 1:25.8 | noise, all of which are making the game we're watching on TV. |
| 1:30.0 | Extremely something. |
| 1:31.3 | I'm not sure what. |
| 1:32.8 | And finally, we'll toss around the latest nickname and major North American pro sports, |
| 1:37.9 | the National Hockey League's Seattle Cracken. |
| 1:40.9 | I'm the author of The Queen, the host of the now complete Slow Burn, season four, |
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