Some guys get on your nerves. Bob Costas does that for me. Don't worry, not like what Will Leitch does to Buzz Bissinger. It's just the way he carries himself, he just rubs me the wrong way.
For example, every year at the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation dinner, the reporters stand in this pen as the celebrities walk on the other side of the rope and give interviews.
And every year Bob Costas shows up, walks on the other side of the rope and gives interviews. What could reporters be interested in asking Costas?
I'm surprised his HBO show is still running. I remember watching it when it first aired and thinking this is bad. I recall one segment had a special surprise guest come out to ask Costas questions. Why? Maybe others feel differently, but I thought that show was almost as bad as Magic Johnson's attempt at a late night television show a decade ago.
Almost.
Okay, I'm done. From now on I'll leave Costas bashing to Neil Best.
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I sense that Costas wants to be an insider, not simply a reporter. Reference the Mantle eulogy. He wants to be reported on and interviewed as much as be a reporter/interviewer.
Good point bringing up the Mantle eulogy.
Brooks: weren't you writing something that you were going to post a link to here, and we'd give it some pub on the blog?
It's just about to come out. And I mean just. Publication date of April 30. It's a reference work.
Now, of course, you could point to my book chapter on "How a New Yorker Came to Love the Penguins," in Randy Roberts, Pittsburgh Sports: Stories from the Steel City (2000), but that might cause some people real pain this week. :)
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=9HvN0FIQCLwC&dq=Pittsburgh+Sports:+Stories+From+The+Steel+City&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Uxe-D3GNh8&sig=qX4i3adHtdBwnKvddYHynTeKgOU#PPP1,M1