The hay-day of ESPN, from a late-2000s standpoint, was filled with the best un-biased and entertaining sports news. Kids turned to SportsCenter with John Anderson, Stuart Scott, and many other iconic analysts.

Now, kids turn to opinionated and loud hosts such as Pat McAfee and Stephen A. Smith on their own shows. Other ESPN personalities have followed suit with these practices.

Today, Around the Horn has become a platform for such combative speak.

Now, don’t get me wrong, the concept of the show is great. Each guest analyst receives points for making a good take, and lose points if they say something outrageous, and can even be muted.

But the way the analysts speak can rub people the wrong way. On Around the Horn’s show from March 19, you can see why.

Right out of the gate, the guest host Frank Isola began a discussion on an Anthony Edwards dunk the night before, where he posturized John Collins. But Edwards never touched the rim, so the debate was on their takeaways from the big play.

The first analyst to answer, David Dennis Jr. started with, “For any dweeb out there that says, ‘Oh that’s not a dunk, he didn’t touch the rim,’ shut up and enjoy one of the most remarkable plays we have seen.”

He received two points for the comment.

Why such an aggressive start, David? Why not just speak on how remarkable the dunk was? What do those ‘dweebs’ have to do with your argument?

The next topic was about Caleb Williams’ possible drafting by the Chicago Bears, but host Isola decided to base the conversation on a comment made by Robert Griffin III, saying Williams should demand to not be drafted by the Bears.

Each analyst proceeded to bash Griffin’s take, proving the Bears aren’t a bad situation while giving well informed reasons as to why. There’s just no need to bring a guy into the conversation who was nothing to do with the show or the topic at hand. Isola could’ve just asked if Chicago was a good situation for Williams or not.

Then comes Dennis again, swinging for the fences.

“Its March 19, and I’m going to demand that RG3 (Robert Griffin) trade his Christmas tree in the background and replace it with some Easter baskets.”

There was a Christmas tree behind Griffin on his podcast.

Once again, attacking the man, not the issue at hand. He also received six points for the comment. What even is this point system?

If you are going to judge people on their analysis, why give points for off-topic jokes? Just make an unbiased point system, not one based off laughs.

Then, Dennis proceeds onto the final round against Mina Kimes. They were asked about Marcus Smart getting two technical fouls the night before while not even playing in the game.

Dennis stated that its “More kind of sad” because he got ejected “then he goes home and listens to LeBron and J.J. Reddick’s podcast and LeBron says (Kristaps) Porzingis got traded for a bag of Lay’s potato chips, which includes Marcus Smart.”

Even Isola responded saying, “That’s kinda mean.”

Guess who had the most points by the end of the show and received the reward of “Facetime.”

And guess what he chose to talk about.

“He (Matt Norlander) interviews all the (NCAA Men’s Basketball) coaches and asks for their favorite artists … Hubert Davis’ favorite artist of all-time is Lil Durk, I do not believe you, we need your receipts.”