Hang Up and Listen - The Tiger! Edition
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🗓️ 24 September 2018
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Slate’s Jim Newell to talk about Tiger Woods’ first win in five years. Plus, Lee Jenkins explains why he left Sports Illustrated to take a job with the Los Angeles Clippers’, and Jonathan Hock discusses his documentary 14 Back.
Tiger Woods (1:19): It had been 1,876 days since Woods won a golf tournament. Why did it mean so much to see him back on top of the game he’s dominated for decades?
Lee Jenkins (22:10): SI’s longtime lead NBA writer decided to leave that gig to become the Clippers’ executive director of research and identity. Why’d he make the move? Also, what’s an executive director of research and identity?
14 Back (42:15): Jonathan Hock’s latest film is about the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees and the classic one-game playoff in 1978 in which Bucky Bleeping Dent played a starring role.
Afterballs(1:03:00): Stefan on Bucky Dent’s bat and Josh on an American star in Australian Rules Football.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.9 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast. |
| 0:14.7 | Hang up and listen for the week of September 24th, 2018. |
| 0:18.9 | On this week's show, Jim Newell will be here to discuss Tiger Woods's first win back |
| 0:23.2 | after five years in the not-winning golf tournament's wilderness. We'll also ask Sports |
| 0:29.9 | Illustrated's longtime lead basketball writer Lee Jenkins, why he took a job as the Los Angeles |
| 0:35.4 | Clippers executive director of research and identity, |
| 0:38.8 | and also what an executive director of research and identity is supposed to do anyway. |
| 0:45.3 | Finally, Jonathan Hock will join us to talk about his new documentary 14 back, |
| 0:49.9 | about the Red Sox, the Yankees, Bucky Dent, and their one game playoff to decide the 1978 season. |
| 0:57.4 | Joining me in our Washington, D.C. studio with Stefan Fatsis, |
| 1:01.1 | author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello, Stefan. |
| 1:04.6 | Hello, Josh. |
| 1:07.1 | You're excited about this Yankees situation? |
| 1:11.1 | Anything to relive my childhood, yes. |
| 1:13.1 | All right, we will relive your childhood in but a few minutes. |
| 1:16.9 | But first, let's talk golf. |
| 1:19.3 | On Sunday in Atlanta, Tiger Woods won the Tour Championship by two shots over Billy Horschel. |
| 1:25.3 | It was his first tournament victory in 1,876 days. |
| 1:29.6 | That is a lot of days. |
| 1:32.1 | Let's listen to what he said right after he made the last put on the 18th green. |
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