Hang Up and Listen - The Not Michael Jordan Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis discuss the musical Small Ball with Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey. ESPN’s Bill Barnwell joins to talk about why the NFL is bad at scouting quarterbacks, and The Good Place’s Mike Schur explains his love for Dan Le Batard.
Small Ball (1:55): The day after the Rockets’ win in Game 1 of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, general manager Daryl Morey talks about his passion for musical theater, which led him to commission a basketball-themed musical.
Quarterbacks (18:00): Why can’t the NFL separate the Akili Smiths from the Carson Wentzes? Bill Barnwell crunched the numbers for ESPN and joins the show to theorize about why the league can’t figure out which signal-callers to draft.
Dan Le Batard (37:39): Mike Schur, the creator of Parks and Recreation and The Good Place, discusses why he’s obsessed with the Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz and what makes it such a special radio show.
Afterballs(57:17):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.7 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcasts, Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 16th, 2018. |
| 0:19.9 | On this week's show, Daryl Morey, the general manager of the NBA's |
| 0:23.2 | best team, the Houston Rockets, will join us to talk about his new basketball musical, Small |
| 0:29.1 | Ball. ESPN's Bill Barnwell will also be here to explain why NFL teams are so bad at evaluating |
| 0:34.9 | quarterbacks. And Mike Scher, the creator of Parks and Rec and the |
| 0:38.7 | Good Place, will explain his infatuation with Dan Lebitard, the host of a sports radio show that is only |
| 0:44.8 | very occasionally about sports. Joining me here at the Slate office in Washington, D.C., mere blocks |
| 0:51.9 | away from three other offices that used to be Slate's Washington, D.C. office. It's Stefan Fatsis, D.C. mere blocks away from three other offices that used to be Slate's Washington, |
| 0:55.4 | D.C. office. It's Stefan Fatsis, author of a Twitter thread that inspired the OED to add the |
| 1:02.1 | word slime ball to the dictionary. Hello, Stefan. Well, they're working on it. They claim they |
| 1:06.8 | were working on it before Trump used slime ball in a tweet. Well, what would you expect them to say? Well, you know, I mean, it's in their online free dictionary. Yeah, that doesn't count. No, it doesn't count. Congratulations for inspiring the OED to add slime ball to the dictionary. Thanks, Josh. I'm sticking to it. Shocking that it wasn't in there already. |
| 1:27.8 | I'm going to read a little, it's very shocking. |
| 1:30.1 | I'm going to read a little intro to our Daryl Morey conversation in a second. |
| 1:34.5 | I just want to say before we get into it that we had eight first round NBA playoff games this weekend. |
| 1:42.0 | We'll have ample time to discuss the, you know, |
| 1:46.0 | LeBron's impending departure from Cleveland, the Pacers sweep, but we don't want to get ahead |
| 1:52.4 | of ourselves. We want to let the playoffs play out a little bit more before we get too deep. |
| 1:57.1 | So with that being said, on Sunday night in Houston, the top-seated Rockets held off the Minnesota Timberwolves 104 to 101 in game one of their first round Western Conference playoff series with the help of 44 points from the likely NBA MVP, James Hardin, joining us now, a leading candidate for the NBA's executive of the year, Rocket's general manager, |
| 2:18.4 | Darry. Welcome to the show, Darrell. |
| 2:20.8 | Hey, Josh, Stefan. Thanks for having me. |
| 2:23.1 | So I didn't say that you are the likely winner for the NBA's executive of the year |
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