Hang Up and Listen - The Unlimited Salad Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss March Madness, the Brock Osweiler trade, and the Washington NFL team’s decision to fire Scot McCloughan. They also talk about the annual video ranking the best hair in Minnesota high school hockey.
NCAA Tournament (3:40): Why isn’t Gonzaga the bettors’ March Madness favorite? Is Villanova getting enough love? We assess the March Madness matchups and potential biases in the NCAA selection committee.
NFL Offseason (16:49): An analysis of the game-changing, questionably legal Brock Osweiler trade between the Texans and the Browns, plus a breakdown of the Scot McCloughan firing and how the Washington Post covered it.
“All Hockey Hair Team” (31:20): Minnesota native John King creates a video every year celebrating the best hair in Minnesota high school hockey. How does the 2017 lettuce celebration compare to history’s greatest hockey hair videos?
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:12.4 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of March 13th, 2017. |
| 0:19.6 | On this week's show, we'll talk about March Madness |
| 0:22.1 | and what you need to know to be only mostly ill-informed |
| 0:25.3 | about the 2017 NCAA tournament. |
| 0:28.2 | We'll also discuss the Cleveland Brown's attempt to bring moneyball |
| 0:32.2 | to the football player acquisition market |
| 0:34.6 | and the Washington football team's messy firing of its general manager |
| 0:39.7 | Scott McLuhan. And we'll assess the hair in the Minnesota high school hockey tournament |
| 0:45.0 | and the strange controversy over a series of videos highlighting those flowing locks. |
| 0:51.4 | Joining me in Washington, D.C. is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few |
| 0:56.5 | seconds of panic. Hello, Stefan. You're swelling with pride today. I am. For two reasons, |
| 1:02.9 | I had good flow and played hockey in high school. Not quite the flow of a Minnesota flow, |
| 1:07.0 | but pretty good flow. Okay. And two, my daughter played fuckers in a Scrabble tournament over the weekend. |
| 1:13.1 | That's mostly what I was referring to. |
| 1:14.6 | I figured. |
| 1:15.2 | The flow was implicit. |
| 1:17.0 | And she had choices because the K and the R were blanks. |
| 1:20.3 | They're 18 possible seven-letter bingoes in that combination of tiles. |
| 1:26.0 | How much? |
| 1:26.4 | She saw some of the other ones. |
| 1:28.0 | Fuckers scored the most that she could see. |
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