Hang Up and Listen - The Rats Fighting in a Sewer Edition
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🗓️ 28 August 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay to discuss Floyd Mayweather’s win over Conor McGregor, by Ken Rosenthal to talk about the Athletic, and by Robert Lipsyte to assess Clay Travis and ESPN’s supposed liberalism.
Mayweather-McGregor (1:30): Jason Gay, who watched the fight while high, explains why fans weren’t unhappy with the experience, and looks at what’s next for the two very rich fighters.
The Athletic (16:09): Longtime sportswriter and baseball sideline reporter Ken Rosenthal explains why he signed on with the sports media start-up and why he believes its business model makes sense.
Clay Travis and ESPN (32:54): Former ESPN ombudsman Robert Lipsyte discusses accusations that the Worldwide Leader of Sports is a liberal bastion and the marketing genius of Clay Travis, who has brought the culture wars to sports.
Afterballs (52:24):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of August 28th, 2017. |
| 0:18.7 | On this week's show, Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal, we'll join us to talk about watching |
| 0:23.0 | the Mayweather-McGregor fight while hi. |
| 0:25.9 | And I will join us to talk about watching the fight on an illegal in-arena stream |
| 0:30.5 | in which a guy in the crowd shouted, there it is every time Mayweather landed a punch. |
| 0:35.8 | We'll also speak with Fox Sports baseball reporter Ken Rosenthal |
| 0:39.7 | about his decision to join the new sports media venture, The Athletic. And Robert Lipsight |
| 0:45.6 | will be here to discuss ESPN's move to reassign a broadcaster named Robert Lee, who is scheduled |
| 0:51.1 | to do play-by-play for a University of Virginia football game, as well as the broader accusation that ESPN is too damn liberal. Joining me in Washington, D.C., a Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic. And I think he was the guy shouting, there it is. It's possible. On my periscope screen. Possible. Say, there it is. I'll be able to tell. There it is. Close. Close. Was he highlighting the there, emphasizing there, or the... It was definitely emphasizing the there. Okay. Yeah. Maybe a little bit more inebriated than you are this morning. There we go. |
| 1:28.4 | That's my Stefan. |
| 1:30.4 | On Saturday night in Las Vegas, boxer Floyd Mayweather beat non-boxer Connor McGregor |
| 1:35.4 | in a boxing match by 10th round TKO, which means that the ref stepped in and stopped the fight |
| 1:41.8 | when McGregor was getting punched in the face a lot. |
| 1:44.4 | The 40-year-old Mayweather, who is now 50-0, an undefeated mark that's one win better than heavyweight Rocky Marciano's long-standing record, |
| 1:52.9 | said after the fight that he's retiring for good, this despite just getting a payday in the hundreds of millions of dollars. |
| 1:59.4 | So expect him to fight again in the next couple of years, maybe against McGregor, maybe against |
| 2:03.9 | a hologram of screech from Saved by the Bell, anything that can get him that sweet, sweet nine |
| 2:10.4 | figures. |
| 2:10.8 | People will pay for the screech hologram Mayweather fight. |
| 2:14.9 | McGregor, who is also going to get paid in the neighborhood of nine figures for this most |
| 2:18.8 | recent fight, did not look like he'd suffered all too badly, and his reputation certainly |
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