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Ousting Scott Pruitt, the Return of the Soccer Trolls, and the NBA vs. the NFL | The Press Box (Ep. 493)

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker link up to analyze the media's role in the recent resignation of Scott Pruitt as EPA administrator (02:00), the return of World Cup criticism in America (21:00), and the popularity of the NBA compared with the NFL's (31:30). Hosted by: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Produced by: Jim Cunningham Brought to you by: The Ringer Podcast Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

David, last week Donald Trump defended his practice of randomly capitalizing certain words

0:07.0

in his tweets, insisting that he doesn't quote only for emphasis, not because he thinks

0:13.0

those words should actually be capitalized.

0:15.0

What I want to know from you is, which words do you think we should randomly capitalize

0:21.2

as a matter of our daily lives?

0:23.2

Well, I did a little bit of work on this one.

0:28.2

I sent a Slack DM to the Ringer Copy Chief Craig Gaines to see if there was anything

0:33.2

that he had any opinions on the subject.

0:38.2

And he said that his answer is that no extra word should be capitalized.

0:42.2

He thinks we're in a perfect state right now and any changes make his head explode.

0:47.2

That's not a good quote for him.

0:49.2

That's my point of view.

0:51.2

I mean, he's the one who always takes it down a notch when I try to capitalize words

0:56.2

like truth or literature.

0:59.2

Those are good suggestions.

1:02.2

I kind of like the early English style of just like capitalizing the subject of a sentence.

1:09.2

I think that that helps direct the thought process.

1:13.2

But I can't, there's not a lot of times where I desperately want to capitalize something

1:18.2

that I don't get to.

1:20.2

I feel like I can force most of them through.

1:22.2

What about you?

1:23.2

Well, we definitely need more Ringer stories where the narrator or the hero is capitalized.

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