Hang Up and Listen - The Tiger! Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin discuss Tiger Woods’ Masters win with Slate’s Jim Newell. The New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham joins to talk about Kyle Korver’s essay on white privilege. Finally, ESPN’s Jeff Passan explains the logic behind Ozzie Albies’ awful contract.
Tiger Woods (1:55): His win at the Masters was an all-time great sports moment. Here’s how we’ll remember it.
Kyle Korver (24:32): What he got right in his Players’ Tribune essay on race and the NBA and what he left out.
Ozzie Albies (44:55): If the young Braves star is happy with the “worst contract ever” then do other players have the right to complain?
Afterballs (1:01:09): Stefan on the photographer Robert Riger and Josh on the Claudine Longet Invitational.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.3 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 15th, 2019. |
| 0:18.3 | On this week's show, Jim Newell, will join us to talk about Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods winning |
| 0:23.8 | the Masters. Tiger Woods. The New Yorkers, Vincent Cunningham, will also be here to discuss |
| 0:29.2 | Kyle Corver's piece for the Players Tribune about the NBA and white privilege. And ESPN's |
| 0:34.9 | Jeff Passon will come on to talk about what's been Ballyhooed as the worst baseball contract of all time, the seven-year extension that Ozzie Albiz just signed with the Atlanta Braves. |
| 0:46.8 | Here with me in our Washington, D.C. studio is my co-host, Stefan. |
| 0:51.8 | That's my name. |
| 0:52.8 | Kevin Fatsis. |
| 0:53.9 | Author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic. I'll get a right one of these weeks. It's all right. You're not first. Yeah. Stephen. Good to be here with you. How are you? Stephanos. Go full on. Is Fatsis short for something? No. I don't think so. maybe 100 years ago. No, not 100 years ago. It'd have to be like 200 years ago. I don't know. |
| 1:11.6 | Levitating. Is Fats is short for something? No. I don't think so. Maybe 100 years ago. |
| 1:12.7 | No, not 100 years ago. |
| 1:14.0 | It'd have to be like 200 years ago. |
| 1:25.0 | I don't know. Levittanski was mine. Really? Yeah. Huh. That's why it's pronounced Levine. Is Josh short for something? Joshua. Joshua B. Levine. It is. Okay. Let's talk about you. Yeah, what's up? |
| 1:27.7 | Your book, got to pre-order the queen. |
| 1:30.0 | Everybody has to pre-order the queen. |
| 1:29.3 | Do you think it's too much pressure to tell people they have to pre-order |
| 1:32.6 | the queen? I'm going to afterball the queen. And so I'm going to entice people with actual content |
| 1:39.3 | rather than shame, guilt and shame. Guilt and shame is pretty good. Guilt shame and content. |
| 1:45.5 | I'm triangulating. |
| 1:48.3 | Let's begin the show, shall we? |
| 1:49.7 | I'm on page 200 something. |
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