Bob Costas warns Golden At-Bat could turn baseball into gimmick
"Does it turn the game into kind of a video game and kind of gimmicky? Yeah, I think so."
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MLB Network launches ‘MLB’s Traveling Spaceship Show’
The show features a supercomputer voiced by Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Costas.
Bob Costas addresses retirement: ‘I couldn’t consistently reach my past standard’
"I have too much regard for the game, for the craft, and for whatever my own standard has been to hit beneath my lifetime batting average."
‘Pardon the Interruption’ hosts defend Bob Costas against ‘stupid’ critics
Unclear whether Wilbon and Costas actually understand what the criticism actually was of Costas, who appeared to retire on his own terms.
Bob Costas fires back at notion he’s humorless: ‘You don’t know jack sh*t’
"Disrespectful is less damning than ignorant."
Bob Costas faults ‘spineless sycophants’ catering to Donald Trump for close election
"A center-right candidate, an honest, decent, center-right candidate…easily defeats Kamala Harris."
Bob Costas retires from calling MLB games
Joe Buck: Social media vitriol ‘wore me out’
"It affected my calls."
Nick Wright torches youth of America for not appreciating Al Michaels and Bob Costas
"It’s Costas and Michaels YOU SPOILED BRATS!"
Bob Costas invokes Aaron Boone in ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’ during 9th inning of elimination game
"You won't even need six moves to connect Aaron Boone to almost anybody."
Chris Russo blasted Bob Costas, TBS ‘George Brett documentary’ broadcast of Yankees-Royals Game 3
"I watched a George Brett documentary last night and a baseball game broke out!"
Michael Kay offers impassioned defense of ‘broadcasting god’ Bob Costas
"To see these young people on social media eviscerating a broadcasting god... You're out of your minds!"
Hot mic captures Bob Costas awkwardly talking about CNN ad read
Costas was caught on a hot mic expressing reservations about reading a CNN promo during a live broadcast.
TBS broadcast of Royals-Yankees was obsessed with George Brett
"Take a shot every time George Brett is mentioned."
Bob Costas calling Yankees-Royals ALDS is big break for New York
Bob Costas has called a lot of great Yankee wins.
Bob Costas & Ron Darling highlight MLB playoff divisional series announcer pairings
Bob Costas will be on the call with Ron Darling as the New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals face off.
Bob Costas offers solution to Pete Rose’s Baseball Hall of Fame candidacy
"Put him in the Hall of Fame. Put it at the bottom of his plaque, ‘Banned from baseball in 1989 for life’ as part of the record."
Bob Costas, Al Michaels finally make NBC Olympics appearance
Bob Costas and Al Michaels finally made their much-awaited Olympics appearance on NBC Sunday afternoon.
Bob Costas’ wall of Emmys amuses Dan Patrick
"Bob, do you have any rooms without Emmys?"
Bob Costas says he would have embraced Snoop Dogg on NBC Olympics broadcasts
"If I were hosting, as long as it didn't encroach upon in any way what you're there for, then it's just a side dish."
Al Michaels, Bob Costas reportedly making guest appearances on NBC Paris Olympics coverage
Two NBC Sports legends, Bob Costas and Al Michaels, will reportedly be guests on NBC's Olympic coverage coming from Paris.
Sports hosts are free to talk politics now. Do they have anything to say?
Bob Costas: ‘We can no longer indulge [President Biden’s] delusions’
"Nobody should be president when they‘re 85 or 86, including the ghost of Abraham Lincoln."
Bob Costas: Charles Barkley ‘is as close to indispensable as anyone I can think of’
"He knows that if he wants to, wherever basketball ends up, he can go."
Bob Costas wishes NBA broadcast opening monologues were still around
"The idea was to take an already good product and amplify everything that was appealing about it and to tell stories in dramatic ways."
