Hang Up and Listen - The NBA Jam Is Real Life Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Wall Street Journal’s Ben Cohen to discuss Duke freshman Zion Williamson and the video game–like NBA and NFL. Baseball writer Rob Neyer also joins to discuss Bill James’ claim that baseball players are replaceable.
Zion Williamson (4:09): After two games, the Duke star looks like the greatest athlete in the history of basketball. Where can he possibly go from here?
Sports as video games (19:55): Record-setting offenses in the NBA and NFL owe a lot to NBA Jam and Madden. How far will sports go in mirroring their video game counterparts?
Bill James (37:06): The legendary iconoclast said, “If the players all retired tomorrow, we would replace them, the game would go on.” Is he right?
Afterballs (58:58): Stefan on the next “next Bobby Fischer” and Josh on the case for NFL running backs to take performance-enhancing drugs.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of November 12th, 2018. |
| 0:16.8 | On this week's show, the Wall Street Journal's Ben Cohen will join us to discuss the Duke men's basketball team's remarkable freshman class, led by the remarkable Zion Williamson. |
| 0:28.1 | We'll also talk about what video games have to do with record-setting offenses in the NFL and the NBA. |
| 0:34.3 | And baseball writer Rob Nyer will be here to discuss the legendary baseball thinker, |
| 0:39.3 | Bill James, who made lots of people mad last week by tweeting that if the players all |
| 0:45.1 | retire tomorrow, we would replace them and the game would go on. |
| 0:49.7 | Joining me in our Washington, D.C. studio is the man who replaced Stefan Fatsas, |
| 0:55.6 | Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. You seem like |
| 1:00.6 | the old Stefan. You know, Josh, have we both retired right now? There actually would be no |
| 1:04.9 | podcast. Maybe in like three years there would be a podcast. It would take a while. It would |
| 1:09.6 | take a minute. |
| 1:16.5 | Before we get cranking here, I would like to bring in Ben Cohen of the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:19.3 | He's going to be with us for our first two segments. |
| 1:21.4 | Who would only be polite to mention him in the intro. |
| 1:22.6 | Welcome, Ben. |
| 1:25.6 | Thank you for having me and not replacing me yet. |
| 1:27.7 | We'll see what happens. |
| 1:37.9 | I wanted to talk about Cody Parky as like a little banter exercise as far as people who may or may not be replaced. |
| 1:42.8 | He had four uprights, the Bears kicker in the game on Sunday. |
| 1:44.6 | Thoughts, Stefan? |
| 1:45.7 | Oh, I have thoughts on this. |
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