The Andre the Provocateur Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by ESPN’s Kevin Arnovitz to discuss the NBA Finals. ESPN’s Julie Foudy also joins to talk about the Women’s World Cup, and Ben Lindbergh comes on the show for a conversation about his book The MVP Machine. NBA Finals (2:55): Why the Warriors won Game 2, and how both teams are playing great defense. Women’s World Cup (23:40): How the U.S. stacks up against the world, and how the fight for pay equity will play out during the tournament. The MVP Machine (47:34): The player development revolution in baseball, explained. Afterballs (1:05:01): Stefan on the spelling bee and Josh on aluminum bats as scrap metal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.0	Hi, I'm Stephen Fatsus, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast, hang up and listen for the week of June 3rd, 2019.
0:20.2	On this week's show, we'll talk about the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors, but mostly the Golden State Warriors.
0:26.0	As the NBA finals, Head West, Tied 1-1, Kevin Arnavitz of E-SPN will join us for that conversation.
0:33.9	Soccer legend Julie Fauty will be here to preview the month-long Women's World Cup in France,
0:39.8	which begins later this week.
0:41.6	And finally, we'll talk to Ben Lindbergh about his new book,
0:45.1	the MVP machine, how baseball's new conformists are using data to build better players.
0:51.6	Josh Levine is the national editor of Slate and the author of The Queen,
0:55.8	The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth.
0:58.8	Josh was book touring in California last week, but he's back.
1:03.0	Josh Levine is back.
1:04.0	Hi Josh.
1:05.0	Hey, hey Stephan, hey friends.
1:07.0	It was great.
1:08.0	There were a lot of hang-up
1:10.0	listeners who came up to me at various readings and I signed some
1:15.2	Remember Zellmo's and books which was nice. Yeah if people
1:22.0	buy a book I'm going to make this offer to podcast listeners if you buy the
1:27.3	book which you should do it's great I will send you an autographed book plate that says remember
1:38.3	Zellma Beatty and my signature and has a stamp of my face on it. You can look on
1:42.4	Twitter and see the stamp of my face on it. You can look on Twitter and see the stamp of my face.
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