The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of May 23rd, 2016.

On today's show, we'll talk about what, if anything, is wrong with the Golden State Warriors.

We'll be joined for that segment by Ethan Sherwood Strauss of ESPN. We'll then talk to Jason Klein of the minor league

baseball team naming a firm Brandios. They're the minds behind the iron pigs, the rubber ducks,

the flying squirrels. They're currently renaming the Binghamton Mets AA Farm Team. And finally, we'll talk

to Greg Howard of the New York Times about the launch of the ESPN website, The Undefeated.

Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, the author of the book's Word Freak and a

few seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. I'm going to change my last name to the Blue Wahoos,

which was another one of their names. You're a Pelham Pelican, do or die. It's true. I'm not a shucker. I'm a pelican. Mike, do you know the words to the song? I'm not a shucker. I'm a pelham pelicans. Pelham pelicans. Aw, shucks, we're not the shuckers.

I hate them.

Fuck those fuckers.

Pelham pelicans.

That's the more of the racey, the race album version of the song on the B side of a red fox routine.

Mike Peska is the host of Slate's Lately Podcast, The Gist.

And in our bonus segment this week, we are going to talk

about an article that was in The Undefeated during its launch week on how we should deal with

quotes, what we should do when Kevin Durant says, for example, he's a idiot when referring to

Mark Cuban. Sign up for Slate Plus if you want to hear this segment and if you want to hear

bonus segments on other Slate podcasts, you can sign up and get a free two-week trial

at slate.com slash hangup plus.

On Sunday night in Oklahoma City, the Thunder beat the Warriors 133 to 105 to go up

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