The Oklahoma City Thunder Lost by 73

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin break down college football’s playoff match-ups and Brian Kelly’s move to LSU. Insider’s Bradford William Davis joins to discuss the baseball lockout and his piece on the sport using two different balls. Finally, a conversation about sports blowouts. College football (5:29): Does outsider Cincinnati have a chance against Alabama, Michigan, and Georgia? Baseball (27:22): Will the sport cancel games? And why did MLB have two different balls in circulation? Blowouts (47:36): What makes some lopsided victories great and others unwatchable? Afterball (1:04:30): Stefan with more sports musicals. If you enjoy Hang Up and Listen, consider giving the gift of Slate Plus to a fellow Slate fan and they’ll receive all the benefits of membership: unlimited reading, ad-free listening, bonus content, and so much more: Give Slate Plus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	The following podcast includes explicit language, including,
0:35.0	well, you'll just have to wait and see. I'm Stephen Fanc, and this is Slates Sports Podcast, Hang Up and Listen for the week of December 6th, 2021.
0:58.0	On this week's show, we'll break down the college football playoff and good old boy, Brian Kelly,
1:03.2	and his family moving from Notre Dame to LSU.
1:07.0	Bradford William Davis of Insider
1:09.2	will be here to discuss the Major League Baseball lockout,
1:12.2	and also his fascinating story about
1:14.4	Major League Baseball using two different baseballs last season.
1:18.3	Finally, we'll talk about blowouts for which it was a big week led by the OKC Thunder losing to Memphis
1:25.5	by an NBA record 73 points. I'm in Washington DC I'm the author of Word Freak
1:31.7	a few seconds of panic and Wild and Outside.
1:35.1	I also once was detained by police in Albania during a reporting trip.
1:39.1	Josh Levine is also in DC.
1:40.9	He's the author of The Queen, the national editor of Slate, and the
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