Hang Up and Listen - The Satan’s Armpit Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Deadspin’s Laura Wagner are joined by Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer to discuss the baseball playoffs, and by Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post to discuss New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick. Plus, a conversation with Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal about Gritty.
Baseball (1:44): Can “bullpenning” carry the Oakland Athletics past the New York Yankees in the playoffs? And why were the Baltimore Orioles historically bad?
Belichick (17:02): Bill Belichick talked to Sally Jenkins about the changing state of football and his obsessive approach to the game—but not his relationship with Tom Brady.
Gritty (34:54): The Philadelphia Flyers’ new mascot, Gritty, is simultaneously terrifying and beloved. How did he become an overnight media darling?
Afterballs (48:02): Laura on Johnny Manziel’s “letter” to Baker Mayfield and Stefan on the etymology of “bullpen.”
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast, hang up and listen for the week of October 1st, 2018. |
| 0:17.6 | On this week's show, Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, will join us to talk about Major League Baseball's playoffs, including which teams might bullpen to the World Series. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm very excited about bullpen becoming a verb. We'll also talk about the coach of a two-and-two NFL team, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots, who emerged from his usual |
| 0:38.9 | cone of silence for a thoughtful interview with our guest, Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post. |
| 0:44.6 | And finally, we'll discuss the biggest story in sports right now. We always do the big stories, |
| 0:51.3 | and that would be gritty, the new nightmare fuel mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers. |
| 0:57.2 | Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal will share his thoughts about the gritty phenomenon. |
| 1:03.1 | Josh Levine, Slate's editorial director and the author of the 2005 post, |
| 1:08.3 | Rappers and Bloggers, separated at birth, exclamation point. He's off this week. |
| 1:13.9 | Joining me in our Washington, D.C. studio is former Hangup and Listen intern and current Deadspin |
| 1:19.8 | staff writer Laura Wagner. Welcome back to the show, Laura. Thank you. Wow. I need to step up my |
| 1:26.0 | rappers and bloggers separated at birth blocks. Wow. I think it's time. It's been 13 years. Someone should do a revival of that blog post. Yeah. Are you okay with us still referring to you as hang up and listen in? By the way. At this point, really, it's just reflected glory on us. So it's all good. There are two tiebreaker games in the National League. |
| 1:46.9 | The Cubs hosting the Brewers and the Rockies at the Dodgers. |
| 1:50.1 | All four have made the playoffs, but because they tied for their divisions, they need to play again to see who wins the division and who plays in the wildcard games. |
| 1:58.6 | But we will not talk about those games because we are recording this podcast before they are played on Monday afternoon. |
| 2:04.9 | But there's plenty more baseball to discuss with Ben Lindberg of the Ringer. |
| 2:09.7 | Hi, Ben. |
| 2:10.7 | Hi, October baseball. |
| 2:12.3 | Exciting. |
| 2:13.1 | Hey, it's October. |
| 2:14.1 | It is October. |
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