Hang Up and Listen - The Passing Is an Expression of Failure Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis talk with Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley about the NCAA Tournament, Slate’s Jim Newell joins to talk about Tiger Woods’ comeback, and ESPN’s Kevin Arnovitz assesses the Toronto Raptors and Houston Rockets.
March Madness (1:31):Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley chats with Josh and Stefan about how to be a college basketball fan without being a huge hypocrite. Plus: Can Penn become the first No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1 in the history of the men’s tournament? Tiger Woods
Raptors and Rockets (35:01): Kevin Arnovitz joins for a conversation about the NBA’s (maybe) two best teams. Are Toronto and Houston for real, and what explains their regular-season success?
Afterballs (52:00):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:16.1 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 12, 2018. |
| 0:23.2 | On this week's show, we'll be joined by Slate's Ben Mathis Lilly to discuss how to maximize your enjoyment of the NCAA tournament during a period in world history when enjoying the NCAA tournament. |
| 0:33.6 | Seems kind of hypocritical. |
| 0:35.7 | But don't worry, we'll figure it out together. |
| 0:37.6 | Our colleague Jim Newell will also be here to talk about Tiger Woods's almost triumphant return to professional golf. |
| 0:44.7 | And ESPN's Kevin Arnowitz will help us assess the Raptors and the Rockets, who, go figure, are the teams with the best records in the NBA's Eastern and Western conferences. |
| 0:55.7 | Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few |
| 0:59.9 | Seconds of Panic. Hello, Stefan. It's good to be back together. I know. That was the first |
| 1:04.3 | time ever. That hang up and listen was hosted by someone other than you, me, or Mike Peska, in case you |
| 1:12.4 | forgotten him. |
| 1:13.7 | I've been storing up my takes, so I've got like, I've got at least like four this week, |
| 1:20.4 | as opposed to my usual zero. |
| 1:21.9 | Really, if you take one week off, you multiply your takes by an infinite number. It's exponential. Exponential take multiplication. |
| 1:31.2 | Let us start with the NCAA tournament. I'm always excited for March basketball. You got the |
| 1:36.6 | CBI, which I'm excited about. Some of the best individual sports moments of my lifetime are |
| 1:43.7 | March Madness moments. The whole framework of the tournament |
| 1:46.9 | is fantastic. Lots of games at the same time. They're all on TV for watching by me. But the NCAA |
| 1:52.6 | basketball tournament is also a very bad thing because it's the very goodness of the tournament |
| 1:56.9 | that allows the very badness of big timetime college sports to exist. Between 2010 and |
| 2:03.1 | 2013, CBS and Turner are paying $19.6 billion to televise these games because you and I like to |
| 2:10.6 | watch these games. If we didn't watch, then this rotten system in which some of these billions |
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