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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of September 8th, 2015.

On this week's show, we're going to discuss the final, but maybe not actually final resolution of Deflategate,

with the federal judge vacating Tom Brady's four-game

suspension and Roger Goodell, looking like an enormous fool, the poor guy. We'll also talk about

the Washington football team's latest clown showery with the team benching Robert Griffin

the third after maybe botching his neurological exam and the general manager's

wife accusing an ESPN reporter of trading sexual favors for scoops. And Yahoo baseball writer

Jeff Passon will join us to assess the back and forth between the New York Mets, Matt Harvey and Harvey's

agent Scott Boris, who have been arguing for the last week about whether the star pitcher should stop pitching prior to the playoffs to protect his arm.

We are all discombobulated geographically this week.

I'm not in D.C. I'm up in New York to go to the U.S. Open, so not joining me in Washington, D.C., but in Washington, D.C. himself is Stefan Fatsas, author of the book's Word Freak, and a few seconds of panic.

Hello, Stefan.

Hi, Josh. You were up late last night.

I was. Federer, Isner, 76, 765. It went late, but I like it. I like tennis, you guys.

One break in three sets. One break in three sets.

One break in three sets. Yeah. Federer. Magical. So magical. That was meant as a joke, but I just need to

make it clear. So I don't feel like the embodiment of a cliche. He was magical, is what you're saying.

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