The Silver in China Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by Slate’s Joshua Keating to talk about the NBA’s China kerfuffle. ESPN’s Sam Miller also joins to discuss the baseball playoffs and David Epstein assesses Alberto Salazar’s doping suspension and the world track and field championships in Qatar. NBA and China (02:02): How Daryl Morey’s tweet about the Hong Kong protests instigated an international incident and what the NBA should do about it. MLB playoffs (17:29): Does the Nationals’ bullpen strategy make sense? Can anyone beat the Astros? Salazar and Qatar (35:42): Why the legendary track coach got suspended, and what to make of the hot and poorly attended world track and field championships. Afterballs (55:26): Stefan on carrying jockstraps and Josh on a DVR patent war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hello, I'm Josh Levine,
0:09.7	slate's national editor and the author of The Queen.
0:12.0	This is Slate's Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of October 7th,
0:16.5	2018. On this week's J
0:15.1	Jastes Josh Keating will join us to talk about how he tweet by Houston Rocket
0:22.1	General Manager
0:22.8	Darrell Mori sent the NBA scrambling to salvage its business
0:26.6	relationships with China.
0:28.6	E.S. P. S. Sam Miller will also be here to discuss the dominant Houston
0:31.8	Astros, Washington Nationals bullpen highs and
0:34.8	lows, and other big stories from the Major League Baseball playoffs.
0:38.6	And finally, we'll chat with David Epstein about famed track coach Alberto Salazar's suspension for doping violations,
0:44.7	so as the heat and empty seats at the track and field world championships in Qatar.
0:49.2	Joining me in Slates Washington DC studio is Stephen Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few seconds of panic.
0:56.0	Hello, Stephen.
0:57.0	Hi Josh.
0:58.0	We've got some news.
0:59.0	Do you know what I'm referring to?
1:01.8	I do. And it's a good thing that I do because I'm part of it.
1:05.0	It's a live show, our first one in a while, and it's going to be in Washington, D.C. for our hometown fans,
1:10.0	December 3rd at Hamilton Live in DC.
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