Hang Up and Listen - The Oklahoma City Thunder Lost by 73
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin break down college football’s playoff match-ups and Brian Kelly’s move to LSU. Insider’s Bradford William Davis joins to discuss the baseball lockout and his piece on the sport using two different balls. Finally, a conversation about sports blowouts.
College football (5:29): Does outsider Cincinnati have a chance against Alabama, Michigan, and Georgia?
Baseball (27:22): Will the sport cancel games? And why did MLB have two different balls in circulation?
Blowouts (47:36): What makes some lopsided victories great and others unwatchable?
Afterball (1:04:30): Stefan with more sports musicals.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, including, well, you'll just have to wait and see. |
| 0:24.0 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast. Hang up and listen for the week of December 6th, 2021. |
| 0:27.7 | On this week's show, we'll break down the college football playoff and good old boy, Brian |
| 0:32.4 | Kelly and his family, moving from Notre Dame to LSU. |
| 0:36.9 | Radford, William Davis, of Insider, will be here to discuss the Major League Baseball lockout |
| 0:41.9 | and also his fascinating story about Major League Baseball using two different baseballs last season. |
| 0:48.8 | Finally, we'll talk about blowouts for which it was a big week, led by the OKC Thunder, losing to Memphis by an NBA record 73 points. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic and Wild and Outside. |
| 1:05.0 | I also once was detained by police in Albania during a reporting trip. Josh Levine is also in |
| 1:10.4 | D.C. |
| 1:15.3 | He's the author of The Queen, the National Editor of Slate, and the producer and host of one year in 1995. |
| 1:16.9 | Hey, Josh. |
| 1:18.6 | I just can't erase the image of Foghorn, Leghorn, getting arrested in Albania. |
| 1:24.9 | I don't know if that's what you wanted me to be thinking of, but like, you kind of, |
| 1:30.2 | you really dropped a bunch of fodder on us there. |
| 1:35.7 | Do you want to say more about Twitter here? |
| 1:38.2 | Albania. |
| 1:39.8 | Yeah, I was in Albania doing some reporting for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:42.8 | I was doing a piece about Albania's Olympic team, and I did another story while I was there. |
| 1:47.8 | This was after the fall of communism. |
| 1:49.4 | And I was wandering around the city, and I was taking pictures, and I took a picture of what |
| 1:53.7 | turned out to be a government building, and a cop car pulled up and forced me to get in and |
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