We won’t have Bob Costas to kick around any longer.
Costas, 72, is retiring from calling MLB games, The Athetic’s Andrew Marchand reported.
Costas has been calling baseball games for the reason that Eighties and most recently was on the announce team for TBS.
In the course of the Nineteen Nineties, he was on the decision for the World Series on NBC. He called his first MLB game for NBC 44 years ago.
His final MLB broadcast was the Yankees’ win over the Royals in Game 4 of the ALDS.
Costas’ contract with TBS’ parent company WBD expired, and The Athletic reported that he made his decision to retire now before this season began.
Costas will remain an on-air contributor to MLB Network, but won’t call games for them.
Lately, Costas became a distraction from the games he was announcing.
In the course of the ALDS, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo criticized Costas and TBS for too many shots of George Brett and references to the Nineteen Seventies, in addition to various calls that got here up short.
“I watched a George Brett documentary last night and a baseball game broke out — the old Rodney Dangerfield line. I mean, what are they doing? And I like George, but jeez, six questions in the course of a playoff game? You already know, Bob had a troublesome night,” Russo said on Audacy’s “You Higher You Bet.”
“He blew the decision in left, the house run that he thought Judge hit, obviously, the underside of the eighth on the only and he thought it was a single and it was an out. He loves telling you the stories. We learned rather a lot about ballpark construction with the foul territory last night too, he brought that up.
“You already know, he’s brought up, we all know enough in regards to the ’76-77 Yankees and Royals. Yeah, he’s gotten pounded here. He’s gotten pounded. I don’t read the social media that much but I’m aware of what has been said. I feel bad for Bob because he’s a legend, he’s an all-timer, probably it bothers him. [Ron] Darling has to determine where he suits in… but Bob I believe perhaps (has) got to let the sport breathe a little bit bit.”
We won’t have Bob Costas to kick around any longer.
Costas, 72, is retiring from calling MLB games, The Athetic’s Andrew Marchand reported.
Costas has been calling baseball games for the reason that Eighties and most recently was on the announce team for TBS.
In the course of the Nineteen Nineties, he was on the decision for the World Series on NBC. He called his first MLB game for NBC 44 years ago.
His final MLB broadcast was the Yankees’ win over the Royals in Game 4 of the ALDS.
Costas’ contract with TBS’ parent company WBD expired, and The Athletic reported that he made his decision to retire now before this season began.
Costas will remain an on-air contributor to MLB Network, but won’t call games for them.
Lately, Costas became a distraction from the games he was announcing.
In the course of the ALDS, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo criticized Costas and TBS for too many shots of George Brett and references to the Nineteen Seventies, in addition to various calls that got here up short.
“I watched a George Brett documentary last night and a baseball game broke out — the old Rodney Dangerfield line. I mean, what are they doing? And I like George, but jeez, six questions in the course of a playoff game? You already know, Bob had a troublesome night,” Russo said on Audacy’s “You Higher You Bet.”
“He blew the decision in left, the house run that he thought Judge hit, obviously, the underside of the eighth on the only and he thought it was a single and it was an out. He loves telling you the stories. We learned rather a lot about ballpark construction with the foul territory last night too, he brought that up.
“You already know, he’s brought up, we all know enough in regards to the ’76-77 Yankees and Royals. Yeah, he’s gotten pounded here. He’s gotten pounded. I don’t read the social media that much but I’m aware of what has been said. I feel bad for Bob because he’s a legend, he’s an all-timer, probably it bothers him. [Ron] Darling has to determine where he suits in… but Bob I believe perhaps (has) got to let the sport breathe a little bit bit.”
