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Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Joel Anderson, Stefan Fatsis, and Josh Levin talk about ESPN’s stance on mixing sports and politics and LSU’s fancy new football facility. Sports Illustrated’s Emma Baccellieri then joins to discuss the Atlantic League’s role as a laboratory for new baseball rules. Sports and politics (01:19 ): Is it possible to construct a corporate policy on mixing sports and politics or is the problem the existence of a policy in the first place? LSU locker room (19:17): What a $28 million privately funded athletic facility says about the state of college sports. New baseball rules (37:47): Robotic umps! Stealing first base! What can we learn from these independent league experiments? Afterballs (53:30): Stefan on NFL training camp entrances and Josh on a very Louisiana legal case. 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	slates national editor and the author of the book The Queen.
0:12.2	This is Slate's
0:13.0	Sports Podcast Hang Up and Listen for the week of July 29th, 2019. On this
0:18.4	week show we'll discuss the latest curfuffle over ESPAN and politics.
0:22.1	This one occasioned by Dan Levitard's response to the
0:25.2	Center Back chant at a recent Donald Trump rally. We'll also talk about the LSU football team's
0:30.6	lavish new locker room, which includes sleeping pods and a lot of
0:34.4	purple carpeting. Finally, Sports Illustrated's Emma Bachelary will be here to
0:39.0	explain how the Atlantic League has become a laboratory for the future of baseball.
0:44.4	Joining me in slates Washington DC studio, fresh off his appearance at the 2019 North
0:48.8	American Scrabble Championship.
0:50.8	It is the author of the book's Word Freak in a few seconds of panic.
0:53.7	Mr. Stephan Fatsas, hello, Stephan.
0:55.6	Hello, Josh.
0:57.0	Welcome back.
0:57.6	Thank you.
0:58.6	Joining us via The Unsponsored Hang Up and Listen Hotline, it's the host of Sloburn Season 3,
1:04.0	an America's fastest 10-year-old,
1:06.0	circa a long time ago.
1:08.0	Our slate colleague Joel Anderson, hey Joel.
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