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Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by the Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh to discuss the Astros’ massive World Series comeback. Deadspin’s Laura Wagner also joins to talk about Houston’s front office debacle, and the New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham assesses Week 1 of the NBA season. World Series (03:37): How Houston turned it around and how Max Scherzer’s neck undid Washington. Astros front office (22:34): What the Astros’ arrogance reveals about the culture of baseball. NBA (39:22): Overreacting to the Warriors’ awful start, rookie Ja Morant’s star turn, and more. Afterballs (57:16): Stefan on the last gasps of segregation in baseball and Josh searches for a seven-game series without a home win. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hello, I'm Josh Levine,
0:10.0	slates national editor and the author of the Queen,
0:12.0	and this is Slates' sports podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 28th, 2019.
0:18.0	On this week show, Ben Lindbergh of The Ringer, will be here to discuss the
0:21.0	Houston Astros massive World Series comeback.
0:24.2	Deadspens Laura Wagger will then join us to talk about the Astros massive World Series failures.
0:29.2	How an executive taunted a female reporter by shouting about an alleged domestic abuser, and the team then failed
0:34.8	to own up to it for a very, very long time.
0:37.7	Finally, the New Yorkers Vincent Cunningham will help us overreact to week one of the NBA season. The Warriors, they're really bad.
0:45.7	Maybe that's not an overreaction. We'll see. Joining me here in the Washington DC
0:50.3	studio, it is the author of a few seconds of panic and Word Freak.
0:54.9	Stephen says, hello Stephen.
0:56.0	Hi Josh.
0:57.0	Did you want to talk about soccer?
0:58.4	Happy morning.
0:59.5	Before we get happy day into the rest of the show yes well first Christian
1:04.6	Polisicicic scored his first second and third goals for Chelsea couldn't do much
1:10.1	against Canada clearly Canada much stiffer than Burnley as an opponent clearly and they were all
1:16.1	great goals they were fantastic goals this was very exciting he looked
1:20.0	very excited as he should have looked he looked he looked the way that he should have looked. He looked the way that he should have
1:24.5	looked. He's figuring out both how to play at this level and how to look at this
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