Hang Up and Listen - The Silver in China Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Slate’s Joshua Keating to talk about the NBA’s China kerfuffle. ESPN’s Sam Miller also joins to discuss the baseball playoffs and David Epstein assesses Alberto Salazar’s doping suspension and the world track and field championships in Qatar. NBA and China (02:02): How Daryl Morey’s tweet about the Hong Kong protests instigated an international incident and what the NBA should do about it. MLB playoffs (17:29): Does the Nationals’ bullpen strategy make sense? Can anyone beat the Astros? Salazar and Qatar (35:42): Why the legendary track coach got suspended, and what to make of the hot and poorly attended world track and field championships. Afterballs (55:26): Stefan on carrying jockstraps and Josh on a DVR patent war.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.1 | Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:12.2 | This is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen, for the week of October 7, 2018. |
| 0:17.9 | On this week's show, Slate's Josh Keating will join us to talk about how we tweet by Houston Rocket General Manager Daryl Morey sent the NBA scrambling to salvage its business relationships with China. |
| 0:28.6 | ESPN Sam Miller will also be here to discuss the dominant Houston Astros, the Washington Nationals bullpen highs and lows, and other big stories from the Major League Baseball |
| 0:37.5 | playoffs. |
| 0:38.6 | And finally, we'll chat with David Epstein about famed track coach Alberto Salazar's |
| 0:42.7 | suspension for doping violations, as well as the heat and empty seats at the track and field |
| 0:47.1 | world championships in Qatar. |
| 0:49.2 | Joining me in Slate's Washington, DC studio is Stefan Fatsis. |
| 0:53.8 | Author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Fannick. |
| 0:56.1 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 0:56.7 | Hi, Josh. |
| 1:13.7 | We've got some news. Do you know what I'm referring to? I do. And it's a good thing that I do because I'm part of it. It's a live show, our first one in a while. And it's going to be in Washington, D.C. for our hometown fans, December 3rd at Hamilton Live in D.C. |
| 1:12.6 | We've done a show there before, have we not? I think we have. No, wait. There have been other slate shows. There have been other slate shows there, though, yeah. And it's great. I feel like I've done it before, because I've been to various slate events there. We will announce guests and special things related to the show later. But for now, we just |
| 1:30.9 | want to let you know that tickets are available, slate.com slash live. Again, that's Tuesday, |
| 1:35.3 | December the 3rd in D.C. tickets are available at slate.com slash live. Go there for tickets and for |
| 1:41.3 | information. If you want to see me also, I've got a book event coming up Tuesday, October 15th, |
| 1:47.1 | at the Potter's House and Adams Morgan in D.C. |
| 1:49.9 | A lot of fan service for D.C. folks. |
| 1:54.3 | If you want to hear about the Queen, I'll be there. |
| 1:56.5 | I've heard about it. |
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