Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Brett Favre, Roger Clemens, baseball finances, and legendary broadcaster Vin Scully.

Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Brett Favre, Roger Clemens, baseball finances, and legendary broadcaster Vin Scully.

Slate's Hang Up and Listen on Brett Favre, Roger Clemens, baseball finances, and legendary broadcaster Vin Scully.

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Aug. 23 2010 4:49 PM

Hang Up and Listen: The Narcissistic Athlete Disorder Edition

Slate's sports podcast on Brett Favre, Roger Clemens, baseball finances, and legendary broadcaster Vin Scully.

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In this week's episode of Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the relative loathsomeness of Brett Favre and Roger Clemens, the successes and failures of low-payroll teams in Major League Baseball, and broadcaster Vin Scully's return for his 62nd season with the Dodgers.

Here are links to some of the articles and other items mentioned on the show:

Hang Up and Listen's weekly Whitey whackers:

Mike's Whitey whacker: Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling says he's never heard of the players the team signed this off-season. Also, he's a racist.
Stefan's Whitey whacker: Robert Lipsyte's New York Times story about Harold Connolly, Olympic hammer thrower and steroids pioneer.
Josh's Whitey whacker: the extremist views of AP college football voter Joe Giglio.

Podcast production and edit by Abdullah Rufus.

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