Hang Up and Listen - The She's Big League Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2016
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Josh Levin, Stefan Fatsis, and Mike Pesca discuss the stars of the baseball playoffs, including Clayton Kershaw, Javier Baez, and Francisco Lindor. They also examine the many theories on the decline of the NFL’s television ratings. Finally, they discuss the Fox show Pitch with former minor league baseball pitcher Ila Borders.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.8 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 17th, 2016. |
| 0:15.8 | On today's show, we'll talk about the stars of the baseball playoffs, among them Clayton Kershaw and Kenley Jansson, Javier |
| 0:23.5 | Baez, Francisco Lindor. It'll be a little Edwin Incarnacion, digression, as one does. |
| 0:30.2 | We'll also discuss why the NFL's ratings are down in 2016, and the baseball pioneer Ila Borders will join us to discuss pitch the new TV |
| 0:41.3 | show about the first woman to play in Major League Baseball. |
| 0:45.9 | Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, the author of the book's Word Freak, |
| 0:51.1 | A Few Seconds of Panic and Wild and Outside, which is relevant to the |
| 0:57.0 | Isla Borders pitch situation. |
| 1:00.0 | It is. |
| 1:01.5 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:02.4 | Hi. |
| 1:03.6 | It's relevant. |
| 1:05.1 | She pitched two years after I wrote that book in the Northern League. |
| 1:08.0 | So I wasn't there. |
| 1:09.0 | Deeply relevant. |
| 1:10.6 | So it's... You paved the way. It's pre-relevant. You paved the way. It So I wasn't there. Deeply relevant. So it's, you paved the way. |
| 1:12.7 | It's pre-relevant. You paved the way. It's pre-relevant. Wild and outside, you should be proud of it, |
| 1:17.8 | but we only mention it when it's directly germane to the issue at hand. And I have to, I have to think |
| 1:23.0 | it has something to do with your fee structure for your remuneration for when people buy that book. |
| 1:29.0 | It doesn't enrich you as much. |
| 1:31.1 | Is it in print? |
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