The Allez Les Bleus Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Henry Grabar and Josh Levin are joined by Men in Blazers’ Roger Bennett to discuss the World Cup. Racquet Magazine’s Caitlin Thompson talks about Wimbledon. And Sports Illustrated’s Emma Baccellieri assesses the terrible Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals. World Cup (2:33): France won the World Cup with an average age of 25 years and 10 months. Is this the beginning of a French soccer dynasty? Wimbledon (20:12): Is Serena Williams’ remarkable comeback truly unprecedented: Also, Kevin Anderson and John Isner’s semifinal match lasted 6 hours and 36 minutes. Is it time to bring fifth-set tiebreakers to Wimbledon? Should men play three sets instead of five? Baseball (39:40): The Baltimore Orioles and Kansas City Royals are on pace to be some of the worst teams of all time. Is that a problem the major leagues needs to try to solve? Afterballs(55:18): Henry on horse racing tracks and Josh on the bizarre shooting of Cubs shortstop Billy Jurges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.2	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:34.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the
0:47.4	week of July 16, 2018. On this week's show, Roger Bennett of Men and Blazers will join us to talk about
0:54.9	France's World Cup Triumph and our lasting memories of the tournament in Russia.
1:00.3	Caitlin Thompson of Racquet magazine will also be here to discuss Serena Williams's near triumph at Wimbledon and whether we should impose a fifth set tie break to save the men of tennis.
1:14.4	And Sports Illustrated's Emma Bachelary
1:16.6	will chat with us about the Baltimore Orioles
1:18.7	and the Kansas City Royals in their quest
1:21.2	for a perverse kind of immortality as both are among the worst
1:25.9	baseball teams of modern times.
1:29.0	Stephen Fatsus remains in Iceland although he assures me that he is going to come back to us someday soon.
1:36.2	Joining me this week from Slate's New York studio is my colleague Henry Grabar, who writes
1:41.1	about business and urban planning and sometimes about sports.
1:45.0	He also shares a last name with Croatian president Colinda Grabar Katarovich,
1:50.0	but was not displeased with the outcome of Sunday's World Cup final because he is a citizen of the
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