Hang Up and Listen - The Moneyball for Rich People Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Johnette Howard to discuss Ezekiel Elliott’s suspension, tennis writer Ben Rothenberg comes on to talk about Sascha Zverev, and Mike Schur analyzes the Los Angeles Dodgers’ excellence.
Ezekiel Elliott (2:16): Johnette Howard joins to review the domestic abuse allegations leveled against the Cowboys running back, if the NFL punishment system worked in this case, and whether the suspension marks a change in the NFL’s treatment of alleged victims.
Sascha Zverev (15:14): New York Times tennis writer Ben Rothenberg and Johnette assess Zverev’s impressive defeat of Roger Federer and if the 20-year-old can be the one to finally unseat tennis’ Big 4.
Los Angeles Dodgers (27:47): The Good Place creator Mike Schur discusses how the Dodgers got so great, the team’s transition from lousy to good (and rich) ownership, and how fans in L.A. might react to another early postseason exit.
Afterballs (47:17):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:17.9 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 14th, 2017. |
| 0:25.0 | On this week's show, Jonette Howard will join us to talk about the NFL's decision to suspend Dallas Cowboys running back, Ezekiel Elliott, for six games for domestic violence, despite Elliot never getting arrested or charged with a crime. |
| 0:38.8 | Ben Rothenberg of the New York Times will also be with us to assess the rise of 20-year-old |
| 0:43.5 | Sasha Zverev, who looks like the guy who could finally end the era of the big four in men's tennis. |
| 0:49.9 | And Mike Schur of Fire Joe Morgan and Parks and Rec and the Good Place fame will come on the show for a conversation about the Los Angeles Dodgers, who might just be the best baseball team of modern times. |
| 1:02.2 | Joining me in Washington, D.C. is the illustrious Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a seconds of panic. On pace for the greatest podcast season |
| 1:12.1 | in history. Hello, Stefan. I'm a terrible illustrator, so I don't know if illustrious is the right |
| 1:16.9 | word. Also with us this week, not sure about her drawing skills, but back on the podcast, after a four-year |
| 1:23.7 | hiatus, it's Jonnet Howard. Janet's been a columnist and feature writer for Newsday, Sports |
| 1:29.3 | Illustrated, The Washington Post, the National Sports Daily, and ESPN. She's also the author of a book |
| 1:35.0 | about tennis, The Rivals, Chris Everett versus Martina Nevratilova. You can find her on Twitter at |
| 1:40.9 | Jonette Howard. Welcome, Jeanette. Thanks for having me. And we were just |
| 1:45.6 | learning before we hit the record button about your first job as an eight-year-old. What was the |
| 1:50.9 | name of the paper? The Broadway dispatch. All right. We'll be looking for back issues of that, |
| 1:56.7 | but I imagine it was illustrious. Has it been digitized yet? I did illustrate it, though, stuff like... |
| 2:02.5 | You did. |
| 2:04.5 | You're multimedia. |
| 2:06.1 | Multimedia talent at 8. |
| 2:08.3 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 2:08.5 | Unchanged today. |
| 2:10.0 | So I'm going to hand off to Mr. Fatsas for the introduction for our first topic on |
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