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Hang Up and Listen

Scandal in the National Women’s Soccer League

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6986 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about Tom Brady’s win over the Patriots. Meg Rowley of FanGraphs also joins to discuss the end of baseball’s regular season and the start of the playoffs. Finally, the Athletic’s Steph Yang helps assess the present and future of the National Women’s Soccer League. Brady vs. the Pats (03:09): Did the game live up to the hype? Was there too much hype?   Baseball (28:23): Should we be sad about the lack of chaos or happy about the possibility of chaos to come? NWSL (49:42): What are the allegations, and what happens next? Afterball (1:07:30): Stefan on the oldest players in NFL history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0

Hide Your Children. Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slate's National Editor, and this is Hangup and Listen for the week of October 4, 2021.

0:55.7

On this week show, we're going to talk about Tom Brady's triumphant return to New England as a member

1:00.3

of the Tampa Bay Bucks.

1:02.4

Meg Rowley of fan graphs will also join us

1:04.8

to discuss the distressingly non-whacky conclusion

1:08.0

to baseball's regular season

1:09.8

and what to look for as the playoffs began this week.

1:13.0

And the athletics, Steph Yang, will be here

1:15.3

to assess the present and future of the National Women's

1:17.7

Soccer League, which canceled its schedule over the weekend

1:20.7

in the wake of reporting about abuse and toxic work environments throughout the league.

1:25.6

I'm in Washington, D.C. I'm the author of The Queen and the host of the podcast one year.

1:30.4

Also in D.C. is Stephen Fatsis. He's the author of Word Freak, a few seconds of panic, and wild and outside, now permanent part of the rotation. Hello, Stephen.

1:40.0

Hey Josh. We have a Sheriff Taras Bowl update. They beat Real Madrid in the Champions League group stage.

1:47.3

Are they good now? We like them because they're winning?

1:51.5

No, we still don't like them. We're just sort of our jaws are on the on the floor.

1:55.8

Keep us posted with us from Palo Alto, host of Sloburn season three and the upcoming

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