Hang Up and Listen - The Rabbit Out of His Head Edition
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🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Jemele Hill of the Atlantic to discuss what’s gone wrong with LeBron James and the Lakers. They also talk about Bryce Harper’s $330 million deal with the Phillies and Jason Witten’s return to football after a year in the broadcast booth.
LeBron (1:18): We knew the Lakers star would have a tough road in the Western Conference. We didn’t know it would be this tough.
Bryce Harper (17:04): Was the Phillies’ record-setting outlay wise or foolish? Will Philly fans embrace Harper or boo him?
Jason Witten (29:31): The Cowboys tight end had a rough first year on Monday Night Football. Is that why he’s hanging up his microphone and heading back to the field?
Afterballs (45:56): Stefan on Bill Walton and Jack Scott and Josh on a crazy high school basketball ending.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.4 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 4th, 2019. |
| 0:18.1 | On this week's show, we'll talk about the Lakers' late-season slide and the increasing |
| 0:22.3 | likelihood that LeBron James will miss the NBA playoffs. We'll also discuss Bryce Harper's |
| 0:28.1 | record-setting $330 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies and Jason Witton's return |
| 0:34.2 | to the Dallas Cowboys after a not-so-centilating season in the Monday |
| 0:38.5 | night football broadcast booth. Here with me in our Washington, D.C. studio, is my co-host, |
| 0:44.6 | Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. Hello, Stefan. Good |
| 0:49.6 | morning, Josh. And also with us this week. We're happy to have joining us from L.A. is Jamel Hill, who you probably |
| 0:57.9 | know from her 12-year stint at ESPN and who you are getting to know as a staff writer at the Atlantic, |
| 1:04.2 | where she's written pieces recently on Colin Kaepernick and Kamala Harris. Jamel, welcome to the show. |
| 1:10.3 | Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. |
| 1:14.1 | So let us jump in to the LeBron scenario on Saturday night in Phoenix. He scored 27 points, |
| 1:23.0 | got 16 assists and nine rebounds, as the Lakers lost to the worst team in the NBA falling to |
| 1:29.1 | the Sons 118-109. LeBron said after the game that he's not here to harp on negativity, |
| 1:34.5 | but we certainly are here to harp on negativity. The Lakers now have just an 8% chance to make |
| 1:40.2 | the playoffs, according to 538. L.A. is 30 and 33, four and a half games behind the Spurs for the eighth seed |
| 1:47.5 | and the Western Conference playoffs. |
| 1:49.5 | They're actually so mediocre that they'd be out of the Eastern Conference playoffs, too, |
| 1:53.8 | a game behind Orlando. |
| 1:55.0 | And they have just one more win than Anthony Davis's tanking New Orleans Pelicans. |
| 2:00.1 | If the Lakers missed the playoffs, the biggest reason will be that they went six and 12 when the 34-year-old LeBron was out with a groin injury. |
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