Trump’s Crime Talk, the Death of the Newsroom, and Jeff Benedict on the Patriots

The Press Box

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss Trump’s approach to this year’s election. They break down his remarks on protesting, violence, and the Democratic Party (2:35). They then discuss the newspapers that are getting rid of their newsrooms and the impact it could have on the profession (20:30). Then, sportswriter Jeff Benedict joins to talk about his new book about the New England Patriots, ‘The Dynasty’ (31:30). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	David, this week, Vin Scully, the 92-year-old former Los Angeles Dodgers announcer joined Twitter
0:10.7	and Instagram.
0:11.7	Oh my gosh.
0:13.2	What I want to know is how will Scully use his newfound social media power?
0:21.9	According to Scully, it's not even going to use Twitter for, quote, any controversy
0:26.2	in any shape or form.
0:27.7	Yeah, that would be very shocking.
0:29.4	I mean, listen, you're asking me to make old people joke.
0:35.0	I'm guessing we're going to see some celebration of Vin Scully's career, some probably some,
0:41.8	some, you know, milk toast, sports highlights and commentary on non-current baseball.
0:49.6	And probably a whole lot of like tweets that just say like, call Sarah into it.
0:59.6	Oh, come on.
1:00.6	See, you said you were going to not make old people jokes, then you just did.
1:05.6	Oh, man, I don't know.
1:08.7	What do you think we're going to see?
1:09.7	Well, this is a particular gripe as a sports media writer person, but there's been this
1:14.5	thing over the last couple of years where people are constantly trying to draft Vin Scully
1:19.2	to come back and call one inning of the All Star game.
1:22.8	Oh, call like one game of the World Series on National TV.
1:26.1	And Vin Scully to his crisis, I don't want to do that.
1:29.2	Please do not draft me.
1:30.4	So I would just like a standing Vin Scully tweet, maybe early July, right before the All
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