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Hello, media consumers. Welcome to Pressbox Friday. Brian Curtis of the Ringer, here along with

producer Erica Servatus. We're going to bring on ESPN's meanicimes here in five seconds,

but I want to say a couple of quick things about the big media story of the week,

which was The New York Times buying the sports website, The Athletic, for $550 million in cash.

And thought number one, I still can't believe it. This was kind of the worst kept secret in media

over the last couple of weeks. I remember calling people at The Athletic, and they also said,

I think this is going to happen. I think this is going to happen. But it's fair to say that I am still

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