The Middle Relievers All the Way Down Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Yahoo’s Jeff Passan to discuss Red Sox pitcher David Price’s October awfulness. ESPN’s Jeff Carlisle talks about why Major League Soccer’s Columbus Crew are staying in Ohio, and Deadspin’s Dvora Meyers assesses gymnast Simone Biles. Baseball playoffs (3:20): Why have David Price and Clayton Kershaw been so much worse in the playoffs than in the regular season? And will the Milwaukee Brewers’ bullpen-first strategy come back to haunt them? Columbus Crew (21:22): The Major League Soccer franchise was supposed to move to Austin. How did Columbus manage to keep its team? Simone Biles (38:48): The reigning Olympic gold medalist is still taking gymnastics to new heights. She’s also getting more comfortable speaking out in public. Afterballs(58:42): Stefan on the UEFA Nations League and Josh on an obituary cliché. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast
0:02.0	podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's
0:10.0	Sports Podcast hang up and listen for the week of October 15, 2018.
0:16.2	On this week's show, Yahoo's Jeff Passen will join us to discuss Baseball's League Championship
0:21.3	series with topics including Red Sox pitcher David
0:24.9	Price's mysterious October awfulness.
0:27.9	Yes, Pians Jeff Carlyle will also be here to talk about the shocking success of the grassroots effort to keep
0:34.6	Major League Soccer's Columbus crew in Columbus.
0:38.6	And finally, DeVora Myers of Deadspin will come on the show to assess reigning Olympic gold medalist Simone
0:45.1	Biles who continues to soar to previously unseen heights gymnastically and who's
0:51.4	finding her voice off the mat as well.
0:54.0	Joining me in our Washington DC studio is Stephen Fatsus,
0:58.0	author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic.
1:01.0	Hello, Stephen.
1:02.0	Hello Josh.
1:04.5	Sunday night football, chiefs, Patriots,
1:08.1	Final score of 43, 40, New England.
1:11.3	Skorgami. Skorgami.
1:12.4	Skorgami of the season. Scourgamy. Scourgamy.
1:13.0	4 Scouragamy of the season.
1:15.0	But that's great, you know, that's all well and good.
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