Hang Up and Listen - The Zack the Ball-Catching Maniac Edition
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🗓️ 22 June 2015
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca are joined by Shane Ryan to talk about Jordan Spieth’s U.S. Open win. They also discuss the knockout round of the Women’s World Cup and they interview Zack Hample, the man who caught Alex Rodriguez’s 3000th hit. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/hangupplus. Facebook: facebook.com/HangUpAndListen Email: hangup@slate.com Show notes at www.slate.com/hangup
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of June 22, 2015. |
| 0:14.7 | On this week's show, we'll be joined by Shane Ryan, author of the book Slaying the Tiger, |
| 0:18.7 | to talk about Jordan Speath's second straight major win, Dustin |
| 0:21.8 | Dustin Johnson's sad missed putts, and all the golfers waning about the course at this year's |
| 0:26.9 | US Open. We'll also assess the Women's World Cup looking at the U.S. team's chances, how we should |
| 0:32.3 | feel about the not entirely full stands and whether FIFA has fouled everything up more or less |
| 0:39.1 | than we expected. Finally, Zach Hample will be here to tell us how he snagged Alex Rodriguez's |
| 0:44.8 | 3,000th hit, why he's not giving the ball back to Arod, and where that souvenir ranks |
| 0:49.7 | among the more than 8,000 baseballs that he has caught in Major League Games. Joining me in Washington, D.C., is Stefan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic, and a man who has lost at Scrabble to Zach Hample. I have. Zach, well, I'm sure, tell us. Thank you for, thank you for validating my introduction. Yeah, yeah. He was in college. It was a long time ago. He doesn't play competitively anymore. But Stefan wiped the ground with A-Rod. |
| 1:11.9 | He does. my introduction. Yeah, yeah. He was in college. It was a long time ago. He doesn't play competitively anymore. |
| 1:14.3 | But Stefan wiped the ground with A-Rod. |
| 1:15.2 | He did. |
| 1:18.3 | We tried to play Fleak before it was recognized. |
| 1:24.0 | Joining us in New York, a man who ruins every show he's a part of by interviewing Kim Kardashian. |
| 1:28.0 | It's the host of Slade's Daily podcast, The Gist, with Mike Peska, featuring Kim Kardashian, Mike Peska. Hello. Hello. What do you guys think of preserving the elements |
| 1:34.1 | of the quarry? I thought it was unnecessary. It just seems like they didn't clear the quarry enough. |
| 1:41.8 | I don't know. When that guy, Grace's ball, bounded into the quarry at the end, that was kind of dramatic. |
| 1:48.6 | Yeah, but there was like all these elements of quarry still there. |
| 1:52.3 | Like it was the planet in aliens where there was a lost civilization. |
| 1:56.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:57.2 | Setbladder wants to play football on other planets. |
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