The Classy Intangibles Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and the New Yorker’s Vinson Cunningham talk about Jay-Z’s new partnership with the NFL. They also discuss Joseph Tsai’s multibillion-dollar deal to buy the Brooklyn Nets. Finally, they select the words they’d like to ban from the sports lexicon. Jay-Z (2:10): Did the NFL botch its move to bring on the hip-hop icon as a corporate partner or is the league savvier than we think? Brooklyn Nets (20:30): How and why Tsai paid the biggest price ever for a U.S. sports franchise. And will franchise values keep going up? Banned words (32:00): Is “class” the worst sports word of them all? What about “talk about”? Afterballs (48:30): Stefan on football and the heat and Josh on an incident from tennis player Daniil Medvedev’s past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	Hello, I'm Josh Levine,
0:10.0	Slate's national editor and the author of The Queen.
0:12.0	And this is Slate's Sports Podcast, Author of The Queen.
0:12.7	And this is Slate's Sports Podcast, Hang Up and Listen
0:15.3	for the week of August 19th, 2019.
0:18.7	On this week show, we'll talk about Jay-Z's new partnership
0:21.6	with the NFL and what it means for the league and the still unemployed,
0:25.3	Colin Kappernik. We'll also discuss Joseph's size multi-billion dollar deal to buy the Brooklyn
0:31.2	nets, the highest price ever paid for an American
0:33.9	sports franchise. Finally, we'll select the words that we would like to ban from
0:39.4	the sports lexicon. Joining me in Slates Washington DC studio is a high character guy, the author of
0:46.6	the book's Word Freak and if you talk to panic, it's Stephen Fatsis.
0:50.1	High motor too, I just want to point out.
0:53.0	That's implicit.
0:55.0	Also with us this week from our studio in Brooklyn, it's a guy who brings the Intangibles.
1:00.0	He is the theater critic for the New Yorker and a charter member the fan club for
1:04.8	R.J Barrett aka the Maple Mamba. It is our friend Vincent Cunningham, hey
1:09.4	Vincent. Hey, I am all those things. That's true.
1:13.5	Before we get on to business today, I wanted to let folks know that Hangup
1:17.4	Alum Mike Pesca is doing a live show at the Bell House in Brooklyn.
1:22.3	It's on Monday, September 16th. That show is the
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