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The Press Box

The Houston Astros vs. the Media, Trump vs. Anonymous, and the New Sports Media Free Agents | The Press Box

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker look at the growing feud between reporters and the Astros (03:00), the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week (18:15), the Donald Trump tell-all by an anonymous writer (21:00), free agency in sports media (29:30), and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.

0:03.4

Coming this Tuesday is the Ringer's third annual NBA Paloza celebrating the tip-off of

0:08.1

the 2019-2020 NBA season.

0:11.3

Make sure you're subscribed to the Ringer's YouTube channel so you don't miss our day-long

0:15.0

live stream, including the premiere of the new season of NBA Desktop, the fourth installment

0:20.2

of our Take-Kunner series with a surprise twist, the unveiling of the Bill Simmons' Lakers

0:25.0

Winebottle team and a live Ryan Rusillopodcast to go along with so much more.

0:29.8

Again, you can check all that out at youtube.com slash the Ringer.

0:39.2

David Donald Trump told Sean a handy few nights ago that he was thinking of terminating

0:46.5

his subscription to the New York Times and the Washington Post.

0:51.7

What I want to know is, what analog newspapers does the White House still intend to receive

0:59.2

a K.A. the epic times and what else?

1:03.8

I've never been to the White House.

1:05.6

I presume they get a lot of different subscriptions.

1:09.9

If you're like...

1:11.9

Do you think it's thrown over the fence and lands on the front steps and somebody gets

1:17.2

the Kelly and Conway comes up and gets the board?

1:19.2

If you're sitting in like a 150-year-old chair that, you know, the Ladybird Johnson once

1:24.9

sat in to do or daily sewing or whatever, is there a side table next to you with the

1:30.4

latest issue of Highlights Magazine in case there's a kid sitting in there or is it like...

1:35.2

Is that the print issues of the sporting news from 1985 just sitting around?

1:41.3

Yeah, so it's like a doctor's waiting office and if you're waiting to get to the Oval Office

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