The Commissioner Is Making Funny Faces

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis are joined by Slate’s Seth Stevenson to discuss the Patriots’ playoff loss and the post-NFL life of Rob Gronkowski. ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan also joins to talk about the legacy of NBA commissioner David Stern. Finally, they interview Theo Anthony about his documentary Subject to Review. Patriots and Gronk (01:39): Why couldn’t Tom Brady and Bill Belichick pull it together this year? And should we pity Rob Gronkowski or feel happy that he got out of the NFL at 29? David Stern (17:41): How we should think about the legendary commissioner, who had a reputation for meanness but made the NBA a corporate giant. Subject to Review (42:31): A heady, trippy documentary about replay in tennis. Afterballs (57:48): Stefan on the origins of “trash panda” and Josh on decibel readings at football games. 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	Hi, I'm Stephen Fats, the author of Word Freak and a few seconds of Panic, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast.
0:14.4	Hang up and listen for the week of January 6, 2020.
0:18.4	On this week's show, Sates Seth Stevenson joins us to talk about the end of the New England Patriots
0:24.2	Dynasty or whatever the team's loss over the weekend signified and a new profile
0:28.8	that he's written of retired tight end Rob Grankowski, who maybe would have changed the outcome of the game against
0:36.0	Tennessee on Saturday. Hall of Fame basketball writer Jackie McMullen will be here to assess the life
0:40.8	of one of the most influential executives in modern sports,
0:44.0	NBA Commissioner David Stern, who died last week.
0:48.0	Finally, Director Theo Anthony will join us to discuss his new E-SPN 30 documentary,
0:54.0	subject to review, a meditation on the mechanics
0:57.5	and metaphysics of instant replay.
1:00.4	Josh Levine is Slate's National Editor
1:02.4	and the author of The Queen, The Forgotten Life
1:04.8	Behind an American Myth.
1:06.7	He joins me again from New Orleans, where the Saints lost in overtime to the Minnesota Vikings
1:11.6	on Sunday,
1:12.8	26 to 20, Joshua at the game.
1:15.5	Appreciate the reminder.
1:16.8	Yeah, in case you had forgotten.
1:18.1	Yeah, they did lose an overtime.
1:19.5	I remember now.
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