David Kaplan accidentally mutes himself one day after roasting Matt Eberflus over service issues
"It is 2024. Can we get a landline, Kap?"
"It is 2024. Can we get a landline, Kap?"
"They’re embarrassing. It’s a disaster, I don’t see how he comes back next year."
"Podcasts are wonderful. I listen to them all the time. But there's one thing a podcast has a very hard time being, and that's urgent."
"Okay, that was not good."
"I've been in sports media one way or another since 1990, and in that time, no one has done a job better than he has done his."
"He doesn't even know the territory that he represents."
“I’ve been at ESPN longer than you’ve been alive?!”
"If I'm a parent and I'm thinking about sending my kid to Oklahoma State University, I have second thoughts now..."
"This story solidifies that what we are witnessing is the end, the very end of collegiate sports as we have always known them."
Why did ESPN have to revisit Stephen A. Smith's hypothetical matchup with LeBron James several times across multiple days?
"They were great. They don't feel like thieves."
Mike Greenberg had a hilarious case of mistaken identity at the doctor's office, where he went along with a suggestion he was Stephen A. Smith.
"They gotta wipe that out."
"If I need to say this out loud, I do not believe that UConn would make the playoffs in the NBA."
"I think I have an understanding of a great many different elements of the business."
"Do they need a host? I could do that. I would be a very good host for that."
"They live in people's neighborhoods. You see them, you help them."
"You can keep making fun of me, you can keep saying I'm out of my mind."
"They take it for granted because they don’t know any other way, and it never occurs to them that me sitting this game out is going to have any impact on that whatsoever."
"I can’t pretend this is alright, I cannot pretend this is just a normal morning, I cannot do the big voice, I cannot pretend the energy is here."
Mike Greenberg has been a busy man this summer, except when it comes to hosting Greeny, his eponymous ESPN Radio show.
"If you think I’m missing a day of this, you gotta be out of your mind!"
"Is there anyone who doesn’t think Twitter has become much worse in the last two weeks?"
"Where the hell is Greeny? Where the hell is Greeny?"
Replacing Le Batard's radio slot with Mike Greenberg feels like a pretty good sign of ESPN's current corporate brand over personal brand approach.