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🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about ESPN’s stance on mixing sports and politics and LSU’s fancy new football facility. Sports Illustrated’s Emma Baccellieri then joins to discuss the Atlantic League’s role as a laboratory for new baseball rules. Sports and politics (01:19 ): Is it possible to construct a corporate policy on mixing sports and politics or is the problem the existence of a policy in the first place? LSU locker room (19:17): What a $28 million privately funded athletic facility says about the state of college sports. New baseball rules (37:47): Robotic umps! Stealing first base! What can we learn from these independent league experiments? Afterballs (53:30): Stefan on NFL training camp entrances and Josh on a very Louisiana legal case.

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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 Book the Queen.
0:12.3	This is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 29, 2019.
0:18.1	On this week's show, we'll discuss the latest kerfuffle over ESPN and politics. This one
0:22.6	occasioned by Dan Lvatar's response to the center back chant at a recent Donald Trump
0:27.6	rally. We'll also talk about the LSU football team's lavish new locker room, which includes
0:33.0	sleeping pods and a lot of purple carpeting. Finally, Sports Illustrated's Emma Bachelary will be here to explain how the Atlantic League
0:40.7	has become a laboratory for the future of baseball.
0:44.3	Joining me in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio, fresh off his appearance at the 2019 North American
0:49.2	Scrabble Championship.
0:50.7	It is the author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic.
0:53.7	Mr. Stephan Fatsis,
0:54.9	hello, Stefan. Hello, Josh. Welcome back. Thank you. Thank you. Joining us via the unsponsored
1:00.5	Hang Up and Listen Hotline. It's the host of Slow Burn Season 3, an America's fastest 10-year-old
1:05.3	circa a long time ago. Our slate colleague, Joel Anderson. Hey, Joel. Hello, good morning. It was
1:11.3	1988. You'll always be the fastest 10-year-old in our hearts. That's right. I still feel 10-year-old
1:17.9	some days. Shall we start? Let's start. Let's start. The day after Donald Trump let a rally
1:24.7	crowd chant send her back about Democratic Congresswoman Ilan Omar,
1:29.0	the iconoclastic and extremely popular ESPN radio and TV show host Dan Lebitard, whose parents are Cuban exiles,
1:36.3	told his audience what he thought.
1:38.3	Lebitard's monologue lasted nearly four minutes.
1:41.1	Let's listen to a bit of it.
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