Hang Up and Listen - The Why Is She Hanging Around Here? Edition
Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin talk about the first week of the U.S. Open. Aaron Schatz of Football Outsiders also joins to preview the NFL season, and Sheba Rawson of the Timbers Army fan group discusses the dispute over political signage in Major League Soccer. U.S. Open (01:16): How Taylor Townsend and Kristie Ahn had the best week of their careers. NFL (22:19): What should we expect from Baker Mayfield’s Cleveland Browns and Kyler Murray’s Arizona Cardinals? Politics and MLS (38:51): Should MLS ban an anti-fascist symbol? Afterballs (55:43): Stefan on Carli Lloyd and kicking Josh on watching tennis from courtside.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.5 | Hello, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen. |
| 0:13.0 | This is Slate's sports podcast tying up and listen for the week of September 3rd, 2019. |
| 0:18.0 | On this week show, we'll talk about the biggest news from the first week of the U.S. |
| 0:21.3 | Open, among them the rise of American tennis underdogs, Taylor Townsend and Christy |
| 0:26.9 | on. Aaron Schatz of football outsiders will also join us to discuss rising expectations for the |
| 0:32.5 | Cleveland Browns, dwindling contracts for running backs and other storylines at the start of the NFL season. |
| 0:38.8 | Finally, Sheba Rawson will be here to explain how her fan group, Portland's Timbers Army, |
| 0:44.3 | has responded to Major League Soccer's ban on political messaging. |
| 0:48.5 | Joining me in Slate's Washington, D.C. studio is the author of the book's Word Freak. |
| 0:53.4 | And a few seconds of panic, your friend and mine, Stefan Fatsas. Hi, Josh. Hello, friend. How was your weekend? I went to the U.S. Open, and we will talk about that in our first segment. I was offering you a smooth transition into the tennis. I went there for journalism. I went to my couch and watched a lot of the U.S. Open. |
| 1:11.4 | That seems like good preparation for our segment on the U.S. Open. |
| 1:16.2 | All right, Stefan, the U.S. Open, the big story from the opening week, was, for me at least, a couple of unseated Americans, both of whom actually lost in the fourth |
| 1:29.2 | round on Monday, ending their underdog runs. But neither 23-year-old Taylor Townsend or 27-year-old |
| 1:35.7 | Christian had ever made it that far at a grand slam. Both had been at times on the cusp of quitting |
| 1:41.1 | the sport. Now they've each earned $280,000, and due to the ranking |
| 1:46.0 | points they've won, they're both going to be in the top hundred of the women's rankings. |
| 1:50.7 | It was joyous, Stefan, to watch both of them win on Sunday, as I did. Maybe we can start with |
| 1:56.8 | Townsend. I wrote a piece about her, which I mentioned that she'd been done pretty dirty by the U.S. |
| 2:02.1 | Tennis Association. She was the number one junior in 2012. She was 16. She won Junior Grand Slams. |
| 2:08.6 | The USDA refused to pay her way to go to the Open that year. They wanted her to focus on her fitness, |
| 2:13.8 | which was another way of saying they thought she was overweight. She since had some success on the tour. She made it to the third round of the French Open five years ago. |
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