Props to Bob Costas (and Jim Kaat, Too)
1-liner, Baseball, Media Gossip/Musings June 12th. 2009, 2:15pmBob Costas: Sure, he can be polarizing, but if anyone watched the Yankees-Red Sox game last night on the MLB Network, you had to love he and Jim Kaat relentlessly railing against how long MLB games were taking. Perhaps game length vexes he and Joe Buck greatly. Or, maybe he just really wanted to watch the NBA Finals. Either way, kudos, Bob Costas. Dustin Pedroia doesn’t need to step out of the box on every pitch to adjust his gloves. It needed to be said. And lastly … why aren’t Costas and Kaat calling more games together? People seem to enjoy that tandem.
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June 12th, 2009 at 2:19 PM
If the game is taking too long, do something else. If you don’t like the sport, watch something else. If you want to watch the NBA Finals, do it.
No rule changes to speed things up because we are too damned impatient these days.
Leave Baseball alone!
June 12th, 2009 at 2:21 PM
sure he does…he’s an epic douchebag.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:23 PM
The guy has a routine for an at bat, and it’s a rythem to make sure his swing is instep (and baseball players are all VERY superstisous ((please excuse my spelling))). It seems to have worked well for him so far…
June 12th, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Nothing is worse than announcers complaining about the length of the game. Except insufferable Laker “fans”. More and more keep popping up, weird. And limeys.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:27 PM
June 12th, 2009 at 2:28 PM
like when Sergio is at the tee.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:32 PM
at the mic would be more appropriate. he could be the biggest punk in the world, ala christiano ronaldo, but that shit doesn’t matter when he’s tee’d up. there’s few players in his class with the driver and irons…and he’s not a punk mid-round.
/unless he’s spitting into a cup
June 12th, 2009 at 2:36 PM
It’s scientifically proven that the more time you take between events, the better your reaction time is going to be. The extra time allows your brain to reset, and your muscles to lose a little bit of the muscle memory.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:36 PM
so rituals in the box in a baseball game is douchey, but it is okay in golf?
June 12th, 2009 at 2:39 PM
This whole thing just reminds me of how pissed I was at the length of a game last sunday. I went to see the Gwinnett (AAA) Braves in their new stadium for the first time. Great park.
Midway through the 5th inning we were sitting at the 3 hour mark- with around 6 total hits in the game!!
The opposing pitcher had 38 f-ing conversations with his catcher, and to make it worse, the umpire after each pitch would actually walk in front of the plate and rub up the ball before tossing the ball back to the pitcher.
I left without even a buzz the game was so soberingly slow. The ump should be canned for that shit.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Baseball games aren’t long, Yankees/Red Sox games are long. The Phillies game ended in 10 innings last night, while this game was still in the 8th. It happens every time. Maybe they shouldnt have Costas do this series anymore, so can take off his cranky pants.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Doesn’t equal better performance, just means you can swing and miss faster.
/misleading science
June 12th, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Credit for sparking the debate in the last thread. Now THAT, was interesting.
I do enjoy listening to Costas do games. Costas, Michaels and Musburger are probably the three guys you could put at any sporting event and they’d be able to call it.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:42 PM
This quote assures me that you’re not J.C. Bradbury.
Everyone has a routine, but it’s the umps JOB to make sure that a player isn’t being a complete douche and to make the game move along at a brisk pace. He should’ve stopped with that ball-rubbing crap (insert joke) and issued a warning to the pitcher.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:43 PM
yea…because golf is inherently douchey.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:45 PM
now that’s a great answer.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:47 PM
In some instances, true. But when that reaction time helps you identify a curve or splitter, and either adjust your swing or lay of the pitch it can help tremendously.
/science in real life applications
June 12th, 2009 at 2:50 PM
whenever Mussina would face Beckett you knew it would be at least 4 hours. those two take forever between pitches.
June 12th, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Spencer: Why in the fuck do you like this dude? Yes, he can hit his irons well, good for him. Too bad hitting irons well doesn’t overcome the fact that he’s a tool.
/unless he’s spitting into a cup
June 12th, 2009 at 3:07 PM
because i really don’t give a shit what athletes do when they’re not entertaining me. what do i care what he says or does off the course?
i became a HUGE fan the very first time i saw, and more importantly, heard him hit a shot. it was unlike anything i’ve ever seen before from any golfer, tiger, phil, vijay included. im a fan of athletes who do the freakiest things that i could never imagine doing myself. it’s why i love phil too, and begrudgingly, tiger, and musicians like keith jarrett, john coltrane and steve vai.
when i first heard that sound of sergio hitting a 3 iron 260 over trees and watched the ball flight, i was forever a fan of his. it was a surreal, a life changing moment, and the moment when i truly got addicted to golf.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:16 PM
/sorry, couldn’t help myself.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:16 PM
/fixed for comedy
June 12th, 2009 at 3:17 PM
damn, Gods, beat me to it!
June 12th, 2009 at 3:20 PM
By a hair, apparently.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:20 PM
hah…at least it was funny.
but seriously, it was badass. and i can’t lay in bed late at night…early tee time, lawya.
June 12th, 2009 at 3:26 PM
When his Captain Waggle disease resurfaces, he is a douche on the course.
Rule changes aren’t needed. 1. Have umpires call strikes above the cock, which doesn’t happen now. 2. Have umpires stop allowing batters to step out of the box on every pitch. It isn’t a timeout unless the umpire grants it. A pitch should be allowed to be thrown.
20 years ago, both of those things happened. The rules have changed. Revert back and the games will be better.
June 12th, 2009 at 4:17 PM
me and a buddy played a drinking game watching a cubs-mets game back in the late 80s. we made up the rules about when to drink and one was every time a player adjusts something–helmet, crotch, gloves. Lenny Dykstra had us drunk in his first AB