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Hang Up and Listen
Joel Meyer
4.6 • 986 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh recap NFL conference championship weekend, where the Patriots braved a blizzard better than the Broncos, and Sam Darnold proved that resurrected quarterbacks really can win it all.
Later, they get into Trinity Rodman’s three-year NWSL deal that keeps her in D.C., but has caught the ire of the players’ union.
The panel wraps with a breakdown of the Mets' busy offseason and whether they can actually come out on top in 2026.
On the bonus episode, available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the panel discusses Alex Honnold's white-knuckle climb of the Taipei 101 tower live on Netflix.
NFL (4:16): Resurrection Bowl
Trinity Rodman (23:27): Cap space for star power
The Mets (41:04): Can we still LOL?
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| 0:00.0 | It is Monday, January 26, 2006. Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate. |
| 0:13.5 | Back with you again this week. I'm Alex Kirshner. I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I also |
| 0:17.4 | co-host the split zone duo, a college football podcast. We have a lot to discuss |
| 0:22.1 | with you this week. We'll talk about both the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, |
| 0:27.1 | punching their tickets to the Super Bowl in Santa Clara in a couple of weeks. We will talk about |
| 0:32.4 | Trinity Rodman of the Washington Spirit and the National Women's Soccer League, striking a deal to stay with |
| 0:39.3 | her team and in her league, but with a catch or two, and potentially major labor ramifications |
| 0:45.3 | for the NWSL and even women's sports, and we'll talk about the New York Mets owned by the |
| 0:51.0 | richest guy in baseball, finally deciding that they'd like some results |
| 0:55.6 | in exchange for spending more than almost anybody on their team. |
| 1:00.4 | Joining me for all of it this week is Lindsay Gibbs, the women's sports lead at CBS Sports |
| 1:05.3 | and the publisher of Powerplace, a newsletter covering the biggest stories of the moment in |
| 1:10.1 | women's sports. |
| 1:11.4 | Lindsay, |
| 1:16.1 | how are you? Doing pretty good, you know. I'm here in North Carolina where we actually got some snow, spent the weekend preparing for power outages that luckily never came, but we'll be inside |
| 1:22.0 | my house for a while. I know our producer Kevin and my co-host Ben have it much more than I do, but we're not used to that here. |
| 1:30.2 | And, you know, it's a tough weekend, I think, for a lot of Americans with what is going on in Minneapolis. |
| 1:38.0 | And yeah, it's a day where, which there have been a lot of these days in the past few years, decade, where it feels a little weird to be focusing on sports. But also, I'm excited to be here with you guys. So here we are. I was a little bit worried that I would be out of power and be unable to talk to you all. And that would have been sad. I'm thrilled that you have power. Ben Lindberg in Manhattan, |
| 2:02.0 | do you have power? I do have power. I suppose the question is a bit, a bit evident by the fact |
| 2:08.4 | that you're answering me that we're talking right now. I could be on battery backup or something. |
| 2:14.2 | I could have a generator. You never know. But no, we do not have a blackout here |
| 2:18.9 | in Manhattan. But I am snowed in. My daughter has a snow day. And hopefully we'll cooperate with this |
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