I like Bob Costas. One of the most polished broadcasters working today and hands down the best dressed. I have it on good authority that part of his wardrobe for the Olympics hails from 3 East 48th Street here in New York City. At least the better looking stuff.
In 1995, I attended an award ceremony for Bud Selig at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee. I sat at a table directly in front of the podium with fellow employees and listened as Selig mistakenly (or not) introduced my table as executives and owners of another major league baseball team. We all looked at each other and I leaned over to a friend who was divorced and whispered, "Tim, if you can't get laid tonight you never will."
After Selig spoke he introduced Bob Costas. There were some thank yous and some insider jokes involving the Milwaukee Braves and then Costas told this story. You might like it. You may not. You will never forget it.
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Yup, that's a Tintin kinda story.
I really like Bob Costas, too. I came to respect and admire him for his three hour(!) Saturday afternoon AM radio interview show, now cancelled, which didn't limited itself strictly to sports. It was like sitting and listening to Costas and his guest at a booth in your favorite pub. Maybe I liked too that he didn't dismiss AM radio as beneath him; that he might have felt it's where great baseball broadcasts are heard, if not able to be seen...
Glad he came back for the winter games.
-DB
good one
He's done a good job at the games..... although he's fronting it he's relatively self effacing and doesn't indulge in all the glutinous Matt Lauer stuff....at time some of these guys come off like commentators in 50's newsreels at the cinema.....Costas also dresses well as does Lester Holt.
Seems we're in the minority here.
Joe, I think Matt's been off his stride since he hasn't interviewed an animal or a human in the last two weeks with a fork stuck in their head.
"Joe, I think Matt's been off his stride since he hasn't interviewed an animal or a human in the last two weeks with a fork stuck in their head."
....tintin....he give the American public what they want.....glop
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