Hideous Sets

What is it with TV sports talk shows and studio analysis?

With the money at their disposal and with what, from the house and garden shows, seems to be an army of decorators and designers, one would expect that the desks and sets for sports shows would be top of the line.

No way. Busy backgrounds of sports posters and sometime video screens. Desks as big as small ocean liners with graphs and screens affixed to the front add up to a huge, unedited jumble of stuff, amid which the anchors and analysts, rightly aghast at being upstaged by their intrusive decor, shout guy things back and forth and generally behave as if they have been overloaded with caffeine and shorted on sense.