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Hi, I'm Josh Levine's National Editor.

This is Hang Up and Listen for Hi, I'm Josh Levine, Slates National Editor.

This is Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 27th, 2020.

On this week show, we'll discuss how the Sports World's

various and sundry coronavirus bubbles and non-bubbles are and are not working.

In the case of Major League Baseball, definitely not working.

We'll also talk about the cardboard cutouts, virtual fans, and simulated crowd noise,

all of which are making the game we're watching on TV, extremely something.

I'm not sure what. And finally, we'll toss around the latest nickname

and major North American pro sports. The National Hockey League's Seattle Cracken. I'm the author of the Queen, the host of the now complete Sloeburn season four.

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