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The Press Box

Beto’s Doomed Campaign, Editing Trump, and the Cable News Sign-off the Week | The Press Box

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss Beto O’Rourke ending his presidential bid (03:00), the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week (25:30), Peter Osnos’s piece in The New Yorker on editing Trump (32:1 5), and an update on the 2020 United States presidential campaigns  (40:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I released the book of basketball in 2009.

0:02.5

I swore I was done.

0:03.9

What else was there to say?

0:05.1

The book was 704 pages long.

0:07.9

I figured out the secret of basketball

0:09.5

with help from Isaiah Thomas

0:10.7

and used it to rank the top 96 players of all time.

0:14.1

I blew up the basketball hall fame

0:15.7

and turned it into a five level Egyptian pyramid.

0:18.9

I figured out the 33 greatest whatever.

0:21.1

I solved every MVP debate.

0:22.8

I made the case for Russell overwilt.

0:24.9

I explained why MJ was the greatest ever.

0:27.5

I wrote hundreds of pop culture references,

0:30.0

at least 250 inappropriate jokes

0:31.9

and God knows how many footnotes.

0:34.3

I even drove to San Diego for the epilogue

0:36.7

to spend time with Bill Walton.

0:38.8

And when the book reached number one

0:40.1

on the New York Times bestseller list,

0:42.2

that was all I ever wanted.

0:43.2

I was done.

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