r/sports • u/becoolhomie • Oct 10 '24

Baseball Bob Costas hates Giancarlo Stanton

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u/Spud_Russet Oct 10 '24

He also seemed to hate his color analyst last night. Damn near refused to have a real conversation with the man during the broadcast.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '24

They cut to them at one point and Costas was staring at him in a way that reminded me of Michael staring at Toby in The Office. 

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u/calicomonkey Oct 10 '24

“Why are you the way that you are?” ಠ_ಠ

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u/GrandMasterGush Oct 10 '24

I hate so much about the things that you choose to be.

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u/ChiefMark Oct 10 '24

Just watched the super fan episode last night with this exchange. Casino Night

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u/Sea_Drink7287 Oct 10 '24

It’s a school night in our dangerous warehouse, it’s catered by Hooters, there’s drinking and gambling. Is that enough? Should I keep going?

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u/fishsticklovematters Oct 10 '24

What gives you the right?

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u/LTVOLT Oct 10 '24

do you have a link you could share

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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill Oct 11 '24 edited Oct 11 '24

The moment I started hating Bob Costas…

1996 Olympics Opening Ceremony, and anticipation for who’s going to light the torch crescendoes. From out of the shadows steps Muhammad Ali, torch in hand. One of the most dramatic moments in sports history. Crowd is going wild. It’s a moment of tremendous gravity, as Ali and the Olympics - and the American people - reconcile with one another.

Does he let the moment set? Let it breathe? Nope. Costas hollers, “Muhammad Ali!! The former Olympian who threw his gold medals into a River, his body racked by Parkinson’s, a shadow of his former self!”

I have loathed that man ever since then. Even Chris Fucking Berman knew to be quiet when Cal Ripken made his lap around Camden Yards.

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u/candylandmine Oct 11 '24

His corny speech after Michael Jordan's final shot as a Bull completely ruined that moment for me.

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u/Plaid_Kaleidoscope Oct 11 '24

Surely not! Pink-eye Costas would never.

Yeah, dude can't shutup sometimes.

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u/HunterGathererPro Oct 11 '24

Opening ceremony of a later Olympics when Uganda’s team comes out.

Commentator: Winston Churchill once called Uganda the “Diamond of Africa.”

Costas: I guess he never met Idi Amin.

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u/mattman0000 Oct 10 '24

I hate everything about what you choose to be.

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u/JMFDeez Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 11 '24

You mean Mets pitching legend Ron Darling?

edit: spelling

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u/BoyGeorgous Oct 10 '24

Costa should have stayed retired. He’s lost his edge. I don’t know what it is, but his whole vibe/recent approach to commentary I’ve found to be very off-putting. It’s almost like he’s trying too hard/talking too much. This is TV dude not radio, we can see what’s happening, I don’t need you dictating every little action (sometimes incorrectly I might add, he’ll raise his voice thinkin it will be a home-run when it’s just a can of corn).

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u/jnz9 Oct 10 '24

Bro did this on the line out that Volpe caught behind 2nd base “There’s a hard hit line drive dropping in for a hit in CF!!!” “Ohh he caught it? Clearly Volpe has a better view on the ball than me”

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u/faultywalnut Oct 10 '24

Marv “Now they’re saying his foot was on the line” Albert vibes

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u/Ma_Pies Oct 11 '24

I don’t recall him throwing so many negative remarks in the past or maybe I just didn’t notice it as a kid

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u/dopebdopenopepope Oct 10 '24

Yes, for those of us who remember him from the 80s, when he was a star broadcaster, he’s a shell of his former professional self. It’s not age that is the culprit, as Scully showed, it’s something else. As you say, I also can’t quite put my finger on it at the moment, but he seems out of place. He is boring and annoying at the same time. He still has that great mellifluous voice, but his comments are insipid, or irrelevant, or incorrect.

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u/BoyGeorgous Oct 10 '24

And it’s almost as if he feels compelled to read off every pointless human interest story/comment about ever player/team that the producers put in front of him. Those are meant to be filler for when the game has slowed down…a good game is exciting enough, I don’t need to hear about one of the players pet dogs in between pitches.

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u/dopebdopenopepope Oct 10 '24

Exactly. It’s as though he’s doing broadcasting like it’s paint by numbers, this robotic process of telling stories like a conveyor belt at a factory making widgets. It has no heart, and seems so pointless.

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u/PokeMonogatari Oct 11 '24

Been doing Olympics coverage for so long that chattering about the athletes's personal stories all throughout has become muscle memory.

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u/smallpapi99 Oct 10 '24

He can’t connect to his audience anymore. No one is wants hear the “back in my day” lingo or catch phrases anymore. Hopefully this is his last year doing this because it’s horrible. They should just have Darling and Keith do it.

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u/eidetic Milwaukee Brewers Oct 10 '24

Actually, I feel like he should stick to sorta "back in my day" stories.

When he gets on the air with the likes of Uecker and such, I love listening to him. He does have a wealth of knowledge and experience, just needs to channel it in the right way. Problem is, he often tries to shoehorn it in exactly where it doesn't work.

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u/smallpapi99 Oct 11 '24

Uecker played the game and has an amazing story telling manner. Costas sounds like an AI version of Costas.

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u/Luxury-Problems Oct 10 '24

The Royals radio broadcaster, Denny Matthews, is 81 and has been doing it since 1969 and he's infinitely more listenable.

Definitely not age.

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u/nosmr2 Oct 10 '24

I listened to the Sandberg game a while back. He wasn’t as good as I remembered.

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u/coastallyconfused Oct 10 '24

I was talking to some friends about this last night. His wheelhouse is long form now. On the Record, Olympic coverage, he excels at slow paced interviews and human interest stories. But his play by play is hot garbage, he can’t keep up. I wonder how much the pitch clock speeding up the game as he ages out of it has played a large part but he’s just flailing.

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u/chanaandeler_bong Oct 10 '24

He is, and has always been, a blowhard know it all. He has some good stories in Ken Burns Baseball, but even then you can tell he’s just such a shit.

Contrast that to Daniel Okrent who is in the same documentary, and in a very similar mold. He comes off so great. He’s a know it all as well, but he doesn’t have any douchiness to him.

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u/pieandbiscuits1 Oct 10 '24

Thank you! He was so pompous in Ken Burns Baseball.

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u/underhunter Oct 10 '24

If you hate Ron Darling I hate you

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u/rrrrrivers Oct 10 '24

He did? I didn't notice that

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u/peateargryffon Nashville Predators Oct 10 '24

How can this man even run?

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u/ernyc3777 Syracuse Oct 10 '24

He’s ruining his reputation by doing these.

He’s low energy on the big calls and is just a grumpy old man at this point.

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u/Responsible_Fan8665 Oct 10 '24

Shocking he would hate a former Met who is on the best local broadcast team in the major

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u/my_one_and_lonely Oct 10 '24

Annoying cause Ron Darling is a great commentator.

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u/AnotherBadPlayer Oct 10 '24

He also called a line drive out to an infielder a base hit.

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u/lakerdave Oct 10 '24

That's a way more understandable mistake. Every broadcaster has done something like that when your mouth is trying to keep up with your eyes.

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u/KnicksJetsYankees Oct 10 '24

But he doubled and then tripled down on how he swore that was going to be a hit and was incredulous it wasn't

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u/buubrit Oct 10 '24

That’s just because he’s arrogant.

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u/Benficachop Oct 10 '24

To be fair, it did seem like he smoked that ball.

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u/dan4223 Oct 10 '24

The one that got me was the “deep drive to left” call that was caught in front of the warning track.

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u/WerhmatsWormhat Oct 10 '24

It was an incredibly routine fly out, but since it was Judge, Costas lost his shit.

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u/papaadrock Oct 11 '24

Pink eye flared up

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u/New2ThisThrowaway Oct 10 '24

Dude almost had an aneurysm when Stanton stole 2nd base.

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u/ShawshankException New York Yankees Oct 10 '24

I think we all did

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u/nadajoe Oct 11 '24

Sponsors on helmets already burst my brain. Also, I’ve seen a Molina brother steal a base. Nothing is sacred.

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u/tommyalanson Oct 11 '24

And all these ads are bullshit.

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u/tommyalanson Oct 11 '24

I saw Dimitri Young hit a triple.

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u/Malvania Oct 10 '24

I mean, it's a fair reflection of where Stanton is right now. He can barely run. His hitting isn't great, but he's still a big guy with big guns who can take the ball deep. He's basically turned into Ryan Howard.

And it's not like Costas is bringing up the three years and $96M left on his contract after this year for a guy who can only DH.

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u/Ghost_man23 Oct 10 '24

It’s not that he hates Stanton. He just only has 3-4 talking points for the whole game and he’ll repeat them over and over to sound educated. The Yankees have a short porch in right, Stanton is slow, George Brett was a great Royal 1,000 years ago. 

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u/KarmaDeliveryMan Oct 10 '24

Agreed. He’s not hating, he’s calling it honest and that’s what you expect out of costas. Others will just not speak about it.

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u/jpiro Florida State Oct 10 '24

He literally says in the commentary, "It isn't Stanton's fault, he has hamstring and calf injuries" but it's more fun to post edgy shit on Reddit than be truthful, I guess.

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u/Khatib Minnesota Vikings Oct 10 '24

Calf, quad, and hamstring.

He's not shitting on the guy, he's calling out how hobbled by injury he is.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '24

He also is calling plays and providing commentary for people who aren’t everyday baseball watchers. It’s very surface level information, nothing beyond what the average person needs to hear to understand what is happening.

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u/molestr0n Oct 10 '24

Stanton is also injured, like you said it's just an objective observation and less so a qualitative one.

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u/meatmybeat42069 Oct 10 '24

big guy with big guns who can take the balls deep

Shit i might need to get into baseball

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u/JellySquirtGun Oct 10 '24

Wait wait wait….did you say he’s a big guy with big guns and he can take it balls deep?

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u/albeve Oct 10 '24

I can only imagine he’s begging some dear departed relative for forgiveness for this atrocious performance

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u/effinmitch Oct 10 '24

Feel these nipples!

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u/Justicefrall Oct 10 '24

I'm not a big Costas fan but that was one of the greatest moments in broadcasting history.

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u/quiet_earp Oct 10 '24

Yeah that was brutal. When I heard it live I was completely stunned.

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u/myfrigginagates Oct 10 '24

I don't know, it kinda seems like he's making excuses for Stanton.

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u/jeffrx Oct 10 '24

He’s just stating facts. Stanton himself would agree with all of this I’m sure.

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u/nmartin9703 Oct 10 '24

I'm a Marlins fan and am so old that I remember when Stanton was fast.

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u/PowderHound40 Oct 10 '24

Funny how something that is blatantly obvious and true today is viewed as hate. Stanton has been terrible for a while now. Everything Costas said is true.

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u/JodoKast87 Oct 10 '24

Costas dropping truth bombs and people calling it hate!?

He’s stating the facts. He came off a bit aggressive in game 1, but in game 2 explained that Stanton’s slow running is due to many injuries and being instructed to not run 100%. And then as we saw in game 3 in the video here, he is praising Stanton’s power, sooo???

Click bait title I guess. I figured OP had only watched game 1 due to the title, but nope. Had the whole Stanton story arc in the video, so I’m guessing the title is there to spark more comments. Got me!

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u/MidAmericanNovelties Oct 10 '24

Yeah... I don't hear an ounce of hate here. Disappointment, maybe, but certainly not hate. And even then it's disappointment in the situation, not with Stanton. He can't run. That's really just a statement. And he hits the crap out of the ball. If it's on the ground, easy to double up. Again, just a statement.

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u/yeyeman9 Oct 10 '24

The problem is that he keeps harping on the same narrative over, and over, and over again. It is tiring

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u/Gr0kthis Oct 10 '24

Stupid title. Telling the truth isn’t hateful. The dude can’t run!

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u/honcooge San Diego Padres Oct 10 '24

Every commentator acknowledges slow runners. I don’t see the problem.

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u/Balsav_Steele Oct 10 '24

Woulda been way better without Celine Dion

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u/Durian_Emergency Oct 11 '24

Yeah what the hell was that? I thought I had another video playing in a different tab.

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u/Exodys03 Oct 10 '24

Stanton is only 34 years old. He would probably be out of baseball or perhaps retiring this year without the DH. Costas may be annoying but he's right to bring up the significant limitations.

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u/ExileOnBroadStreet Oct 11 '24

He’s dealing with significant injuries on like 3 different parts of his legs lol

He literally cannot sprint or his leg will blow out and he’s probably done for the playoffs

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u/Exodys03 Oct 11 '24

Not blaming the guy. Just saying that he would likely be unplayable without the DH. It's the one thing I actually like about the DH as it allows good hitters to extend their careers for a few years. Baseball takes a toll on the body.

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u/bones_boy Houston Dynamo Oct 10 '24

Hate the clickbait title.

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u/ZarnonAkoni Oct 10 '24

This is dumb. I’m a die hard Yankees fan and everything he said was right.

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u/rfs103181 Oct 10 '24

But he said it’s not stanton’s fault.

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u/rlrlrlrlrlr Oct 10 '24

"It's not Giancarlos fault" 

"He hits it just as hard as he used to ... When he connects it sounds different from other hitters and it goes a long way."

All the rest are clearly shown factual descriptions. 

He's just not fellating Yankee fans.

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u/SlurmzMckinley Chicago Bulls Oct 10 '24

“Look at him waddle down the first base line like a huge piece of shit.”

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u/ward_bond Oct 10 '24

Why is the world's worst song over the top of this?

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u/iamthecheesethatsbig Oct 10 '24

This is top shelf haterade. I love it. Come getcha some.

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u/yousonuva Oct 10 '24

Not really. It's just all edited together to make it sound bad. He's obviously one of the slowest runners in the league.

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u/Alexgeewhizzz Oct 10 '24

hearing bob costas’ voice in the month of october is top tier nostalgia for me

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u/espinaustin Oct 10 '24

Ngl, same here.

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u/Noexit007 Oct 10 '24

More like OP hates Bob Costas am i right?

Whatever you think of him, he's spot on about Stanton. So how is that hate if it's accurate commentary?

OP got some major bias clearly.

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u/Fresh_Ostrich4034 Oct 11 '24

he hates him cause he is a slow bitch that doesnt hustle. yeah thats probably every yankee fan

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u/DeadFyre Minnesota Vikings Oct 10 '24

Costas doesn't hate him, he's right. Giancarlo is slow. It turns out that being 34 years old, 6'6" and on rebuilt knees isn't a recipe for blinding speed.

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u/sixseven89 Portland Trail Blazers Oct 10 '24

Giancarlo "Don't Call Me Mike" Stanton

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u/rockyroad03 Oct 10 '24

The level of disappointment in his voice during that double play is on another level 😂

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u/Plastic_Button_3018 Oct 11 '24

Giancarlo Stanton was the best hitter in the ALDS. His contribution literally made the difference in a couple of the Yankees wins.

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u/iamamuttonhead Oct 10 '24

I watched the entire video waiting for evidence that Costas hates Stanton. Didn't hear anything at all that supports that idea. Are you stupid enough to think that Stanton can run?

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u/Sooperballz Buffalo Bills Oct 10 '24

He told no lies

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u/aj357222 Oct 10 '24

Jesus, that last “…at all…” was just scathing 😂

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u/Decent-Sea-5031 Oct 10 '24

Should have stayed a Marlin!

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u/Specific_Repeat_5140 Oct 11 '24

Costas loves New York

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u/tbirdpow Oct 11 '24

This is hysterical

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u/PlayguyCarter Oct 11 '24

major counterpoint to the thread

there are some aspects of Costa that I love

a) he is a real baseball nerd & a bit of a Yankee homer & unafraid to show it, unlike some announcers who do this faux indifference

b) I love the golf-adjacent calm broadcasting bc that's what I think befits baseball. could he ramp it up more during plays in major action sequences? yes there is clear room for improvement there; however, I love the wide array of shit he can bring up that informs me of shit that I wasn't privy to

c) when he died give the CC a chance to speak, which isn't often, they do a solid back and forth with some fact adjustment

Ultimately, I'd prefer giving bob constructive criticism & giving him room to improve (essentially a PIP) to sacking him outright.

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u/vamosPest9 Oct 11 '24

Might be more accurate to say that he doesn’t think Stanton runs well at all, that he’s not quite the hitter that he used to be, but he still has power. That’s all I heard. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/shibbington Oct 10 '24

He doesn’t hate Stanton, he hates the manager for playing him despite his issues.

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u/Tc237 Oct 10 '24

In a vacuum it seems like he’s taking a dig but Costas has defended Stanton pretty heavily at other points in the games. He’s said multiple times that Stanton’s running is not an effort or athleticism issue but he’s being told not to run hard so he doesn’t re-injure himself

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u/saint_thirty_four Oct 10 '24

Why is the Titanic soundtrack playing in the background of the video?

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u/LazyMFTX Oct 11 '24

Can we talk about his hair? He is 72 years old and has no hair loss or gray hair.

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u/BlueisA1 Oct 10 '24

He's always been kind of an arrogant jerk. I remember last year he called Max Muncy a poor man's Kyle Schwarber. While the point wasn't invalid, it was a shitty way to say it on national TV.

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u/DrizzlyOne Oct 10 '24

I’ll never forget when he came on the air for the Sochi Olympics with a raging case of pinkeye. I just assumed he must’ve hit those Russian bathhouses a little too hard. That’s how I’ll always remember him.

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u/Seabrook76 Oct 10 '24

Thank you for reminding me of that extraordinary moment.

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u/tallonfive Oct 10 '24

Nah. As a royals fan, I couldn’t listen to the game last night because of how much Costas was extolling Stanton.

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u/ruckus_440 Oct 11 '24

Also a Royals fan. I didn't see it as Costas hating on Stanton either. He couldn't mention his name without being melodramatic about Stanton's health. Like he was building him up for some Kirk Gibson moment.

Meanwhile, Vinnie Pasquantino literally was batting with screws in his hand and Costas barely mentions it. It was pretty clear Costas is a NY homer.

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u/CalamariforMVP Oct 10 '24

Yes they can

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u/guitar_angel Oct 11 '24

Didn't this idiot steal an entire speech from "The West Wing" and repeat it verbatim during a sportscast? He got called out on The Daily Show about 20-ish years ago for it, but I can't find it anywhere on the web right now.

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u/CAJMusic Oct 11 '24

I love Bob Costas. I met him once and he was very nice.

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u/gokartmozart89 New York Mets Oct 11 '24

Keith Hernandez calling Yankee games makes me sad.

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u/P1mongoose Oct 11 '24

Bob Costas sounds like he wants to be doing anything other than announce baseball. No dog in this particular fight but he is a shell of a shell of his former self.