Hang Up and Listen - What Happened to the Warriors and Kevin Durant
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🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin discuss the latest on sports and the coronavirus. They also talk with the Athletic’s Ethan Strauss about his new book on the Golden State Warriors, The Victory Machine. And the Hang Up and Listen Quarantine Magazine Club convenes to discuss Bill Russell’s “How I Psych Them.”
The pandemic (03:48): ESPN televising HORSE and Major League Baseball’s insane plan to restart the season.
The Victory Machine (23:36): The decline and fall of the Warriors’ basketball dynasty.
Quarantine Magazine Club (44:29): A conversation about a classic Sports Illustrated piece about sports and psychology.
Afterballs (01:01:46): Stefan on SI’s 1963 profile of Bill Russell and Josh with some sports trivia.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast includes explicit language, not restricted to words beginning with F, S, B, and Q. |
| 0:14.4 | Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's national editor, and this is Hang Up and Listen for the week of April 13th, 2020. |
| 0:21.7 | On this week's show, we're going to talk about ESPN televising horse, |
| 0:25.6 | Major League Baseball's plan to restart the season by quarantining everyone in Arizona, |
| 0:30.4 | and other dispatches from a sports world gone insane. |
| 0:34.0 | We'll also talk with the athletics Ethan Sherwood Strauss about his new book, The Victory Machine, the making and unmaking of the Warriors Dynasty. |
| 0:41.6 | And the Hang Up and Listen magazine club will convene to discuss how I psych them, Bill Russell's 1965 account of how he gets an opponent's heads. |
| 0:52.5 | Or will we discuss it? |
| 0:56.7 | Maybe. Maybe not. Think about it. |
| 1:02.2 | Hello from Washington, D.C. connoisseurs of the hang-up intro copy will note. I did not mention the queen up top, because I'm going to mention it now. The Queen, the only national book |
| 1:06.0 | Critic Circle Award winner, written by someone who has a strong opinion about the pass interference |
| 1:10.8 | no call |
| 1:11.3 | in the 2006 LSU Auburn game. It is out in paperback this week. It's got a new cover, |
| 1:16.7 | a green one. It's pretty. I've got a few copies to give away. If you want one, stay tuned for |
| 1:22.0 | after balls, and I will tell you what to do. Joining me here in the booth, Stefan Fatsas, he's the author of Word Freak and a few seconds of panic. How are you feeling today, Stefan? Wait, wait, I'm not joining you in any booth. We are isolated, Josh. Let's be clear. We don't want to give people the false impression that we are violating norms. The metaphorical booth, the notional booth. Thank you. Stefan, I'm admiring your little |
| 1:45.9 | nook there in particular. You've got some accoutrema on your shelf. What is that baseball that's |
| 1:53.8 | like a bookend on the left? Next to my daughter's baby shoes? Yeah, that's an autographed ball by |
| 2:00.6 | the key players from the Northern |
| 2:03.7 | League, who I wrote about in Wild and Outside, the little mentioned book on this podcast. |
| 2:09.2 | Oh, nice. So when you would go up to players, would you say, you're a key player, you can sign on |
| 2:14.7 | the sweet putts, but you're not a key player. You're maybe a key player. |
| 2:18.9 | Like, how did you navigate that? Actually, I just let them sign where they wanted to sign. |
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