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The Press Box

The Times and Kavanaugh, a Mysterious Trump Scoop, and Covering Eli Manning | The Press Box

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss the media aftermath of the New York Times story on Brett Kavanaugh (03:00), the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week (22:45), the week the media decided Elizabeth Warren would win the Democratic nomination (25:00), an intriguing Washington Post Trump scoop (36:30), and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up guys, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.

0:04.6

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0:35.2

David, this week the New York Giants announced that long time starter and New York sports

0:41.4

legend Eli Manning will be writing the bench in favor of rookie Daniel Jones.

0:49.7

What I want to know is, even if you know nothing about sports, isn't this being

0:55.6

covered like a regime change comparable to the American presidency within the New York

1:03.2

tabloids?

1:04.2

I mean, it's not like Eli has been with us for so long that he just seems like the

1:14.4

quintessential New York quarterback.

1:16.1

But there is, I mean, he's a Southern boy too, so I don't mean to, but maybe it's just

1:21.1

that this New York quarterbacking is just like the blank canvas for the perfect New York

1:27.8

story, right?

1:28.8

It's like you get off the bus, like Axel Rose, the beginning of the welcome the jungle

1:31.8

video with your suitcase and your tassled hair and you're just like, to woefully ill

1:37.4

equipped for what's about to happen to you.

1:39.5

There's no way this is going to go well.

1:43.0

And yeah, I mean, I think that the whole story of the New York Giants from the moment he

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