Charles Barkley's New Deal, Baseball Playoff Ads, and Covering Political Losers

The Press Box

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Bryan and David kick things off by discussing the news of Charles Barkley’s new 10-year deal with TNT worth over $100 million (0:22). Then, they touch on Bob Costas's return to broadcasting and his ad reads integrated into the telecast (9:21), before weighing in on Annie Karnie’s short essay in Vogue reflecting on her time covering politicians who never won (24:03). Later, they are joined by ESPN writer Ryan O’Hanlon to discuss his new book, ‘Net Gains.’ They dive into how the soccer compares to other American sports, discuss why soccer is difficult to quantify, and address how one writes a book tackling the analytics (34:31). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Guest: Ryan O'Hanlon Associate Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the NFL Preseason, check out the Ringer Fantasy Football Show on Spotify or wherever
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0:16.8	Football Show.
0:24.0	David!
0:25.6	On big media news, just as we record this podcast, Charles Barkley has signed a new 10-year deal
0:33.8	with TNT.
0:35.5	New York Post Andrew Martian reports that the deal is well north of 100 million and likely
0:41.2	approaches 200 million dollars.
0:44.7	Wow.
0:45.7	Now what I want to remind you in any press box listener of is remember when Charles
0:50.6	Barkley was retiring from television?
0:53.8	Yeah.
0:54.8	He was going to retire from television.
0:57.0	It was all done.
0:58.4	He'd done everything he could on inside the NBA.
1:01.2	Sure.
1:02.2	He was going and very publicly as publicly as possible.
1:06.4	He was investigating that maybe he had a job over at the Liv Golf Tour.
1:10.2	Yeah.
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