The When You’re the Steak Edition

Hang Up and Listen

Joel Meyer

Sports, News, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Stefan Fatsis and Josh Levin are joined by The Gist’s Mike Pesca to discuss the NFL’s conference championship games. ESPN’s Steve Fainaru also joins to talk about the collapsing football insurance market, and Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer assesses baseball’s ice-cold free agent market. NFL playoffs (3:51): The Saints got robbed. Does that mean the NFL should institute instant replay for pass interference? Also: Is there anything new to say about the Patriots? Football and insurance (32:44): It’s getting harder and harder for the NFL and other football entities to get insurance coverage. Does that mean the sport is on the verge of collapse? MLB free agency (50:01): With spring training getting closer, superstars Bryce Harper and Manny Machado remain unsigned. What’s going to break the impasse? Afterballs (68:05): Stefan on “good from 70” and Josh on Mike Tice’s Super Bowl ticket scalping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	Hi, this is Josh Levine and this is Slate's
0:11.0	sports podcast Hangup and Listen for the week of January 21st, 2019.
0:16.7	On this week's show, Hangup Panelist Emeritus Mike Pesca will be here to discuss the cruelty,
0:21.8	the depravity, and the Brady of the NFL's
0:24.4	conference championship weekend. E.S. P. P. S. P. Fainteru will join us to talk
0:28.6	about his story on the collapsing football insurance market and Weather Said Collapse will
0:33.6	imperil the sport and finally Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer will help us assess
0:38.4	Major League Baseball's ice-cold free agent market as superstars Manny
0:42.4	Machado and Bryce Harper remain unsigned
0:45.1	less than a month before spring training commences. Joining me in our
0:50.3	Washington DC studio is Stephan Fatsis, author of the book's Word Freak and a few
0:54.7	seconds of panic.
0:56.5	Hello, Stephen.
0:57.7	Hey Josh.
0:58.9	Got a text from Stephen the other day
1:01.1	about how the Duke campus,
1:04.0	She chefskiville in particular was, what was the exact quote?
1:07.8	Not as bad as it seemed?
1:09.6	I think I said it wasn't Satan's lair.
1:11.6	Where in the which circle was it?
1:15.0	Probably third or fourth.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Joel Meyer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Joel Meyer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.