The Farewell to Zion Edition

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Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Mike Pesca break down the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four and are joined by Lindsay Gibbs of ThinkProgress to discuss the women’s tournament. Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer talks about the new Major League Baseball season. And author Wayne Coffey comes on to discuss his new book, They Said It Couldn’t Be Done, about the miracle New York Mets of 1969. Basketball (2:40): Despite one of the greatest collections of young talent ever, Duke didn’t make the Final Four. Despite a perceived snub of a No. 2 seed, the Connecticut women did. Baseball (28:14): Major League Baseball has a labor problem: It has stopped overpaying older free agents but isn’t compensating its best young players at market rates. Mets (48:38): Fifty years ago, the New York Mets went from one of the worst franchises in the history of pro sports to World Series champs. 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 April 1st, 2019.
0:17.6	On this week's show, we'll discuss college basketball's Zion-less men's Four, and Yukon Full Women's Final Four.
0:26.0	Then we'll hear from Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer
0:28.0	about baseball's opening days,
0:31.0	the messed-up player market,
0:32.0	and reasons to be excited about the new season.
0:35.3	And finally, author Wayne Coffey will join us to discuss his new book.
0:39.4	They said it couldn't be done about the miracle New York Mets of 1969.
0:44.8	Mets fan and Slate Editorial Director Josh Levine is off this week.
0:48.7	Filling in for Josh is Mets fan Mike Pesca,
0:51.9	the host of Slate's daily Podcast, the gist, hey Mike.
0:55.8	Hello?
0:56.8	How are you?
0:57.8	Good, and, and, don't we list all your books, Stephan, come on.
1:01.4	We're getting there, Give me a second.
1:03.0	I got a whole bit cute up here, Mike.
1:05.0	Oh, oh, God bless you.
1:07.0	How am I?
1:09.0	Yes.
1:10.0	I'm well. I'm, you know, the, the, the final four is set and it's exciting it's damn exciting yeah
1:17.4	all right can I make a suggestion for someone that you should interview on the gist
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