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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Hosts Alex Kirshner, Ben Lindbergh, and Lindsay Gibbs discuss the brilliant (but boringly calm) Scottie Scheffler, who racked up yet another victory at the Open Championship at Royal Portrush. The hosts then welcome Front Office Sports writer Annie Costabile to examine the WNBA’s All-Star weekend. They also get into the MLB All-Star game’s swing-off finale. On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the panel ranks their favorite and least favorite innovations in sports broadcasting. Scottie Scheffler (3:37): He loves The Office more than golf. WNBA All-Star Weekend (21:42): How the players used their CBA leverage The Swing-Off (40:33): With great power comes great endings? (Note: time codes are only accurate for Slate Plus members, who listen ad-free.) Get more Hang Up and Listen with Slate Plus! Join for weekly bonus episodes of Hang Up and Listen and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the Hang Up and Listen show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or visit slate.com/hangupplus for access wherever you listen. You can email us at [email protected]. Podcast production and editing by Kevin Bendis, with production assistance from Patrick Fort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is Monday, July 21st, 2025.
0:10.8	Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate.
0:14.6	Back with you once again this week.
0:16.9	I'm Alex Kirchner.
0:17.9	I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I also co-host Split Zone Duo.
0:21.9	That's a national college football podcast.
0:24.1	Fun show for you this week.
0:25.2	We're going to talk about the astonishingly routine dominance of Scotty Sheffler,
0:29.8	winner of the Open Championship this week, and how Sheffler, clearly now, by far,
0:34.8	easily, the best player since Tiger Woods, stands a thwart a generation that's trying to put a fresh coat of paint on golf. Scotty really is not. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the WNBAs. Kind of contentious All-Star weekend. Very interesting stuff. A weekend that didn't feature Caitlin Clark playing games, but did feature some really interesting sports labor confrontations
0:54.3	in extremely public view. We'll talk to two people who were there to witness it firsthand,
0:59.7	and we'll talk, of course, about the swing-off and the future of close baseball games.
1:05.3	As usual, joining me this week is one of those two people who was there in person for
1:09.6	WMBA All-Star Weekend,
1:11.8	Lindsay Gibbs, the publisher of Powerplays, a newsletter that covers the biggest stories of the
1:15.8	moment in women's sports. And there were some big ones this weekend, Lindsay.
1:18.6	There were some big ones. There was lots of activity in Indy. I am a little worse for wear,
1:25.6	but motivated and solidarity-filled.
1:30.1	You know, Indianapolis, Indiana really is a fantastic city to go to an event in the downtown
1:35.0	area.
1:35.5	You can walk everywhere.
1:36.7	Everywhere is walkable.
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