What do you think the desk was made out of? (The ESPN coverage thread)

[nickp91]

Why Bob Wischusen and Gord Miller aren’t the main play-by-play guys for ESPN

 

[Bernie Federko]

All you folks picking on Emily Kaplan, I'll not have it!

 

[IceManCat]

It twas made out of left over hockey teeth

 

[Oak]

Emily Kaplan more annoying than the desk imo. She literally sounds like a 5th grader asking her teacher a question when she does interviews.

 

[Mike C]

The ESPN broadcast is awful, in my opinion. Levy is not great, McDonough is not great, Ferraro is awful. Messier is not great.

PK Subban is fine when he's not clowning it up. Kaplan is fine.

Kaplan is far from fine

 

[geebster]

ESPN sucks massive donkey balls but these playoffs they've reached a whole new level of suction.

In a good way or a bad way?

 

[mr figgles]

I‘m going to go with it‘s an expensive as hell table, and that‘s why it isn‘t bigger. It‘s clearly real wood.

 

[Fatass]

Doubtful it’s mdf or real wood. Both are too heavy to move about. It’s likely some kind of laminated synthetic. They could have used a lot more real looking laminate, that’s for certain.

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

Kaplan is far from fine

I was trying to be charitable. I don't think she's the worst one on the broadcast.

 

[Mike C]

I was trying to be charitable. I don't think she's the worst one on the broadcast.

She's a VP of the hockey writers association. She might be better off sticking to the typewriter

 

[JianYang]

Kenny Albert is the best in the biz, at least out of the American pbp guys

Is that a popular take? I don't find him to be anything special, but I thought his dad was pretty good.

Emily Kaplan more annoying than the desk imo. She literally sounds like a 5th grader asking her teacher a question when she does interviews.

I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something odd about the way she delivers her on camera segments.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1802170815737405454

 

[Spaced Cowboy]

She's a VP of the hockey writers association. She might be better off sticking to the typewriter

You're kidding (I somehow don't think you are)??? Hmmm, wonder how she got that job? Ah yes, of course.....she's the daughter of SI's Peter King.

 

[Chet Manley]

Not going to wade through sewerX. What's wrong with the table?

 

[dumbdick]

If I were ESPN, I would get in on the joke and come back with the most ornate table imaginable for the next game.

Like the throne from game of thrones, but as a table.

I'd have the hosts sipping from ornate golden steins and have meek looking serfs replenishing their cups from crystal decanters after each sip.

 

[algernon]

Not going to wade through sewerX. What's wrong with the table?

What do you mean? It's not on X, it's in the original post. Hosts' desk is an Ikea Billy shelf and people are angry.

Is that a popular take? I don't find him to be anything special, but I thought his dad was pretty good.



I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something odd about the way she delivers her on camera segments.

That might bite you in the ass

 

[AzHawk]

guessing that their broadcast space was too small (just look at it) for whatever desk they might normally trot out so they sent some intern to a furniture store

 

[Oilslick941611]

Wow, video comparison is so telling! Dang, NHL sure misses Doc EMrick calls in playoffs. Very thankful for games Doc called, he was legend that created so many awesome memories for fans.

Plus, next batch of announcers come from environments that restrict critical thinking across-the-board, PC culture rules-the-day, and are ate-up with.... "Might offended someone diseases" (M.O.S.D. for short). This hurts end product, and the Doc Emrick's of yesterday, are all but gone.Many sports announcers today lack emotions and personality.... The announcers who have reached big-time lately are robots, that are massed produced & programed: Most have personality of a paper-bag, and sure wish most were like Charles Barkley that gives honest views, entertaining, and brings real emotions. Change is a given , but that doesn't mean that change is good. Hopefuly pendulum swing$ other way so we get fans get "Real" talent.

L take.

 

[Suntouchable13]

Watching Euro 2024, and let me tell you the British announcers we are getting on TSN are so much better than any hockey announcer we have in Canada or USA. It’s unreal the difference in quality.

 

[SannywithoutCompy]

Pine is good

It's the wood of poor people and outhouses.

 

[Mr Kot]

Is this Walmart table it?

Almost 500 for that shit?

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

I think its pine or it may be oak

 

[Ryuji Yamazaki]

It's the wood of poor people and outhouses.

Don’t watch Seinfeld I take it.

 

[behemolari]

Im confused, did that table fell pieces or something

 

[AzHawk]

Pine is good