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The Press Box

The We’re-Back Show: RIP New York Times Sports, ESPN Layoffs, GQ, and More

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Bryan and David discuss The New York Times replacing its sports section with The Athletic and what that means for their sports writers (2:10). Then, they talk about GQ’s column about Warner Bros. Discovery president David Zaslav (32:06). Later, they get into the latest round of ESPN layoffs and how it is now affecting the people we see on air (41:01). Finally, Bryan has some notes for David from his summer vacation (58:37). Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Producers: Erika Cervantes and Carlos Chiriboga Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You may find this hard to believe, but 60 saws that explain the 90s.

0:04.5

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0:12.0

I'm your host Rob Harbilla, here to bring you more shrewd musical analysis,

0:16.0

poignant nostalgic reveries, crude personal anecdotes, and rad special guests,

0:21.5

all with even less restraint than usual.

0:24.8

Join us once more on 60 saws that explain the 90s every Wednesday on Spotify.

0:35.1

David? Hello. I finally got back from London with my family.

0:41.9

Do you miss anything while you were gone? Well, I heard there were some media news.

0:47.4

I was going to start with some complaints about flight cancellations, travel snaffos.

0:53.3

But you know what I hate when anything in the world is those journalists that get on Twitter.

0:58.3

Damn you, at American Air, for screwing up me and my family's vacation,

1:06.4

with you United. Yeah, I don't want to be that person. No, it's a lot of things that don't mind

1:12.5

being in this world, but person who complains publicly about the airlines. You have to draw

1:19.0

I'm just worried about doing that and it becoming my like top tweet, you know, like that,

1:24.0

like that gets more of a response than anything I do in my regular tweeting activities.

1:29.4

You're insights about wrestlers, past and present, we're profound, but you're rant about

1:35.2

jet blue is what you were looking for. Jet blue is amazing.

1:41.6

Coming up on a days pod, we catch up on all the stuff we missed. The New York Times liquidated

1:47.4

its sports section and replaced it with the athletic. How should we understand that move?

1:52.5

Plus GQ bows before a Hollywood mogul. The DSPN get rid of the best NBA color commentator of all time

2:00.6

and Brian's summer vacation album. All that much more on the press box apart of the

2:05.3

ringer podcast network. Hello media consumers Brian Curtis, David Schumacher, and producer

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