The Not Michael Jordan Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Josh Levin and Stefan Fatsis discuss the musical Small Ball with Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey. ESPN’s Bill Barnwell joins to talk about why the NFL is bad at scouting quarterbacks, and The Good Place’s Mike Schur explains his love for Dan Le Batard. Small Ball (1:55): The day after the Rockets’ win in Game 1 of the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, general manager Daryl Morey talks about his passion for musical theater, which led him to commission a basketball-themed musical. Quarterbacks (18:00): Why can’t the NFL separate the Akili Smiths from the Carson Wentzes? Bill Barnwell crunched the numbers for ESPN and joins the show to theorize about why the league can’t figure out which signal-callers to draft. Dan Le Batard (37:39): Mike Schur, the creator of Parks and Recreation and The Good Place, discusses why he’s obsessed with the Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz and what makes it such a special radio show. Afterballs(57:17): Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Pepsi Max.
0:03.0	Pepsi Max knows the music isn't just a soundtrack.
0:06.0	It's a pulse, and every city has its own.
0:09.0	That's why they teamed up with Spotify to measure the musical taste of cities across the UK and create a
0:14.9	playlist that matches their pulse perfectly. From Glasgow's dance scene to the Rat Game
0:20.1	in Birmingham. Search for Pepsi Max's profile on Spotify to hear the music your nearest city
0:25.6	loves. Brought to you by Pepsi Max. Dusty for more.
0:30.2	The following podcast contains explicit language. Hi, this is Josh Levine, and this is Slate's Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the
0:46.7	week of April 16, 2018.
0:50.2	On this week show, Darrell Mori, the general manager of the NBA's best team, the Houston Rockets,
0:55.7	will join us to talk about his new basketball musical, Small Ball.
0:59.9	E-SPN's Bill Barnwell will also be here to explain why NFL teams are so bad at evaluating
1:05.0	quarterbacks.
1:06.5	And Mike Schur, the creator of Parks and Rec and The Good Place, will explain his infatuation
1:11.2	with Dan Leavittard, the host of a sports radio show that is only
1:14.9	very occasionally about sports.
1:18.2	Joining me here at the Slate Office in Washington, D.C. mere blocks away from three other offices that used to be Slate's
1:24.8	Washington, D.C. office. It's Stephan Fatzis, author of a Twitter thread that
1:30.0	inspired the OED to add the word slimeball to the dictionary.
1:34.3	Hello, Stephan.
1:35.3	Well, they're working on it.
1:36.3	They claim they were working on it before Trump used slimeball in a tweet.
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