Hang Up and Listen - The U Bum Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2017
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin and Marcus Thompson of The Athletic discuss the wave of protests against Donald Trump’s remarks about the NFL. Then they talk about Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant’s recent Twitter snafu and his fragile psyche. And broadcaster and former U.S. soccer player Marcelo Balboa joins for a conversation about hot, new Major League Soccer team Atlanta United FC.
NFL protests (1:35): Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Marcus Thompson of The Athletic discuss a remarkable weekend in professional sports that began with Donald Trump calling protesting NFL players “sons of bitches” and culminated in hundreds of athletes, coaches, owners, and others across sports rebuking the president in a wave of on-field protests and statements.
Kevin Durant (27:16): Stefan, Josh, and Marcus assess Kevin Durant’s apparent insecurities—reflected in his new line of Nike sneakers with insoles that take on his critics—and whether it’s possible to be an NBA superstar and also mingle with the public like a regular guy.
Soccer (41:13): Stefan interviews three-time World Cup soccer player Marcelo Balboa about Atlanta United FC, the Major League Soccer expansion team that recently drew a league-record 70,000 fans to a game in a new stadium in Atlanta.
Afterballs (48:17):
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:13.5 | Hi, I'm Stefan Fatsis, and this is Slate's sports podcast. Hang up and listen for the week of September 25th, 2017. |
| 0:21.8 | On this week's show, we will discuss the remarkable weekend in sports in which the president of the United States called for firing athletes who engage in peaceful, sanctioned protest, and the athletes and their employers responded in force. |
| 0:36.2 | Then we'll stick to some sports more or less and explore |
| 0:38.9 | the psyche of Golden State Warrior star Kevin Durant, who tweeted intemperately undercover in |
| 0:45.8 | the third person about his former team and coach. Finally, one-time U.S. men's national team |
| 0:52.1 | defender, Marcello Balboa, will be here to talk about Atlanta United, the Major League Soccer expansion team that is drawing record crowds and crazy fan support. |
| 1:03.3 | I am joined by Josh Levine. He is Slate's editorial director. He's not in the studio. Hi, Josh. |
| 1:14.5 | Hey, Stefan. Also with us is Marcus Thompson making a return appearance to the podcast. He is now a senior columnist for The Athletic. |
| 1:20.8 | What's up, Marcus? I'm sure you have subscribed already. Thank you very much. |
| 1:25.4 | I have. As a matter of fact, we've also done a segment |
| 1:30.4 | about The Athletic with the great Ken Rosenthal. We are all wishing you luck. On Friday night in |
| 1:37.4 | Alabama, Donald Trump decided to comment on the protests against police brutality and for racial |
| 1:42.7 | justice that took off last year after Colin Kaepernick |
| 1:46.4 | took a knee. I was going to play a clip of Trump labeling NFL players who had protested, |
| 1:51.2 | almost all of them black, sons of bitches or of him calling for fans to walk out of games, |
| 1:56.5 | where players silently protest, in other words, to boycott the league. But frankly, I can't listen to them |
| 2:01.5 | anymore. They make me sick. Instead, let us focus on what happened on Saturday and Sunday. |
| 2:07.0 | More than 150 NFL players, black and white, took a knee or sat down during the anthem. |
| 2:12.5 | LaShawn McCoy, who the day before tweeted, it's really sad, man. Our president is an asshole. LaShawn McCoy stretched and hundreds more linked arms. |
| 2:22.0 | Coaches and owners participated. Three full teams stayed in the locker room. A major league baseball player knelt, the first one to ever do so. |
| 2:30.5 | Two anthem singers knelt at the WNBA finals. |
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