Sounds like the title of one of his many TV shows. Anyways, the elfin sportscaster will be leaving HBO to plight his trough with the new MLB Network.
According to the press release from MNLN, Costas “will host special original programming with an emphasis on the game’s history and its most significant figures and topics, and serve as the lead play by play commentator for a select number of MLB Network’s slate of 26 live regular season games.”
There was a span of a few years when everybody and his uncle was publishing a book about what’s wrong with baseball and how to fix it. And this was before all the PED issues. Costas’ contribution was Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball (Broadway Books, 2001). You can read an excerpt here.
To be honest, I have never much cared for Costas. I don’t know why exactly. There are some broacasters who always seem like everything that comes out of their mouth is rehearsed, that nothing is spontaneous. That they have a list of questions to ask or bullet points to make, and that’s what they’re going to do, regardless of other considerations.
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