The Everybody Hates Patrick Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis discuss Patrick Reed’s Masters win with Slate’s Jim Newell. The Toronto Star’s Bruce Arthur also joins to talk about the Humboldt bus crash, and the Ringer’s Ben Lindbergh helps assess Shohei Ohtahi’s amazing week. Masters (1:36): Jim Newell explains why first-time major champion Patrick Reed is so widely loathed, and they discuss whether we should be repulsed by Reed or feel bad for him. Canadian hockey tragedy (20:43): The bus crash in Saskatchewan that killed 10 youth hockey players and five adults joins a long list of horrifying sports accidents. Bruce Arthur and the hosts talk about the legacy of those events and the special place junior hockey holds in Canadian society. Baseball (31:26): Ben Lindbergh prognosticates about whether Los Angeles Angels phenom Shohei Ohtani can keep up his amazing pitching and hitting. They also chat about Giancarlo Stanton’s slow start and Gabe Kapler’s bizarre managing decisions. Afterballs(51:37): Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast Hangup and Listen for the week of April 9th, 2018.
0:55.0	On this week show, we'll be joined by Slates Jim Newell to talk about
0:58.3	weirdo golf villain, Patrick Reed's Triumph at the Masters.
1:02.7	We'll also be joined by Bruce Arthur of the Toronto Star
1:06.0	to discuss the outpourings of grief in Canada
1:08.9	after Friday's tragic bus crash in Humboldt, Saskatchewan that killed 10 junior hockey players and five adults.
1:17.4	And the ringers Ben Lindbergh will come on the show to chat with us about Shohay O'Tani's
1:21.0	remarkable first week and a half in the major leagues and other baseball happenings.
1:26.5	Joining me here in Washington, D.C. mere blocks away from 2 711s.
1:32.0	It's Stephen Fatsus, author of the 1998 Wall Street Journal article,
1:36.4	College Football, Cis Boom Blah,
1:39.0	students pass on attending games to surf net party watch TV bigger crowds at the Circle K.
1:45.0	Hello Stephen.
1:47.0	Also there were bigger crowds at the 7-Eleven.
1:50.0	I wanted to get in multiple convenience store brands at the top of the show.
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