Hang Up and Listen - The Not a Victory Cigar Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Ethan Sherwood Strauss to preview the NBA Finals. They also talk with Charles P. Pierce about the legacy of writer Frank Deford, and Daniel Engber joins for a conversation about our favorite non-famous athletes.
NBA Finals (1:54): A conversation with Ethan Strauss about what to look out for in the third consecutive finals matchup between the Warriors and Cavs. What will Golden State do in crunch time? Will Draymond Green kick anyone?
Frank Deford (21:25): Charles P. Pierce, who worked with Deford at Sports Illustrated and The National, talks about what made him a great writer and reminisces about his favorite Deford stories.
Non-famous athletes (40:10): Daniel Engber discusses his obsession with Mets utility player Keith Miller, and we talk about our listeners’ favorite non-superstars.
Afterballs (56:50)
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.3 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 30th, 2017. |
| 0:15.8 | On this week's show, we'll preview the third consecutive Cavs Warriors NBA Finals, and we'll be joined for said preview by Ethan Sherwood Strauss, who is formerly the Warriors beatwriter for ESPN. |
| 0:26.9 | We'll also talk with Charlie Pierce about Frank DeFord, who died on Sunday at age 78. |
| 0:32.4 | We'll discuss DeFord's long career at Sports Illustrated and his tenure as the editor-in-chief of the National, |
| 0:38.1 | the Daily Sports newspaper that opened for business in 1990 and closed in 1991. |
| 0:44.0 | And we'll talk about our favorite and your favorite non-famous athletes. |
| 0:47.7 | We'll be joined for that segment by Slate's Dan Inber, who as a kid was infatuated with a baseball |
| 0:53.1 | player so non-famous that I think |
| 0:55.8 | no one on earth shared his obsession. Joining me in Washington DC is Stefan Fatsis, the author of |
| 1:01.3 | the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. Hey, Josh. And I'm very pleased to |
| 1:06.8 | welcome in from California via Skype. Ethan Strauss. Ethan, you may or may not know, |
| 1:13.0 | was one of the folks who got laid off by ESPN back in April, and we've very much been missing |
| 1:18.0 | his voice and his words during the NBA playoffs. So, Ethan, it's great to have you on the show. |
| 1:23.2 | It's great to be on. I've got a lot of takes. A lot of takes stored up. Let's do it. |
| 1:28.1 | All right. |
| 1:28.7 | So, Ethan, after a deep dive into the Wikipedia entry list of film series with three entries, |
| 1:36.4 | I discovered that the third movie in the trilogy, often it goes direct to video. |
| 1:41.4 | Think Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3, Viva La Fiesta. Another option is to... |
| 1:47.0 | That was an injustice. Another option is to send the bad news bears to Japan. But for me, the best |
| 1:54.7 | analogy for adding Kevin Durant to the mix in Cavs Warriors 3 is Mary Steenbergin coming on board for Back to the Future 3, |
| 2:02.5 | the one where they went to the Old West. The lesson here is that when you do research, |
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