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Hang Up and Listen

Hang Up and Listen - The Quest for .400

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis are joined by the Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh to talk about Luis Arraez’s run at a .400 batting average. The Athletic’s Steph Yang also joins to discuss the U.S. women’s national team’s World Cup roster. Finally, college golfers Maycee Kay Aycock and Sarah Marshall come on to explain why they stuck with the sport despite shooting some of the worst scores of all time.

 

.400 (3:14): Why it’s still a magic number in baseball.

 

USWNT (21:57): Will injuries doom them at the World Cup?

 

Bad golfers (42:26): How two women from Meredith College became sports heroes.

 

Afterball (1:02:08): Josh on meat judging.


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This is the overnight flight from London Heathrow to Beijing.

0:05.0

Flight time 11 hours, 237 passengers on board,

0:11.0

and one murderer.

0:15.0

There's no escape.

0:17.0

At 35,000 feet, red eye. Stream now on ITX.

0:30.0

Hi, this is Dahlia Lithwick, host of Slate's legal podcast Amagus. If you're listening to this show, you might be interested in Amicus's live show that we're hosting in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May the 14th.

0:45.0

My colleague, Mark Joseph Stern, and I will be talking to some amazing guests,

0:50.0

including Cheryline Eiffel, and a sitting state Supreme Court justice.

0:54.5

All about how originalism, a relatively recently invented way of interpreting the Constitution,

1:00.9

has taken over the Supreme Court and radically reshaped the law.

1:05.4

It's been doctrinal rocket fuel for the conservative legal movement and facilitated the rolling

1:10.7

back of abortion rights, the expansion of gun rights, and the

1:14.0

obliteration of the separation of church and state. And as another wildly

1:19.4

consequential Supreme Court term, careers to its end, the Court's originalists are on a tear.

1:26.6

But there's something you can do about it and we hope you'll join us in DC on May 14th

1:31.8

to explore the possible pathways out of the current situation, go to

1:36.7

slate.com slash Amicus Live for tickets. This podcast contains explicit language.

1:45.0

If you want to know how explicit, keep listening. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 26, 2023.

2:08.0

On this week show, the ringers Ben Lindbergh, we'll talk about the Marlins Louis Arise and his quest for the first 400 season since

2:15.2

1941. The athletic Steph Yang will also join us to discuss the US women's

2:20.4

national team's roster for the World Cup and whether injuries could cost them a title.

2:25.7

Finally, golfers Macy K. A. Cock and Sarah Marshall will come on to share how they've

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