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Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 5th, 2015.

On this week's show, we'll discuss the collapse of the Washington Nationals and the

non-collapsing teams that did, in fact, make the baseball playoffs.

Soccer writer Ken Early will join us to assess the chaos at Chelsea, where the defending

Premier League champions are in 16th place after eight games, which is not good.

They're in the relegation zone.

Not really.

You just like saying relegation zone.

I'm just like saying relegation zone.

They're one above the relegation zone.

And we'll talk about the superhuman feats of LSU running back Leonard Fournett and whether he should sit out a year of college football to

prepare for the pros. Joining me in D.C. as Stefan Fatsis, a man who's never been in anyone's

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