Arte on CostasNOW
"I will not sign Barry Bonds." (damn right)
"I was ready to cross that line..." (pertaining to voiding GMJs contract because of steroid use)
"Long term we have to continue to educate our kids." (is he running for Miss America)
- Arte Moreno, CostasNOW
Old news... but every time the boss man is on TV, its worth watching.
Further reason to love our amazing owner.
May he own our beloved Halos for years and years to come.
Go Angels!
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Somebody post the YOUTUBE
...of this appearance…
by Rev Halofan on Jul 16, 2008 7:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Encouraging bad behavior. From the man who is first to issue copyright warnings.
Radical when he wants to be!!!
by Stirrups on Jul 16, 2008 7:51 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
too bad, we sign Bonds and we win the Series
http://inplaynoouts.blogspot.com/ - A blog about teams I like, written by me.
by Carl Johnson on Jul 16, 2008 8:22 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
realistically, it will take bonds a while to be able to hit pitching again.
i dont think there is a huge difference between juan and barry at this point. barry is still good, but just not the right option
I AM THOR, GOD OF THUNDER. BOW TO MY WILL AND MY HAMMER!
by anaheim angels on Jul 16, 2008 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
On the field, Barry is probably marginally better, after he figures out how to play
But can you imagine the stories off the field? “Angels cop out and sign Bonds,” etc? Anyone who signs that guy is looking at a public relations NIGHTMARE. It would completely suck all the fun out of rooting for this team to have it permanently associated with the Bonds taint.
~Till the Halo burns out...
by Zu Long on Jul 17, 2008 12:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh it will only only take ten days.
J/K
Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.
Kobe tell me how my ass tastes
by hauldog on Jul 17, 2008 9:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bob Costas
the most insufferable sports broadcaster in the game right now…next to Joe Buck.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 17, 2008 1:07 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
at least you can make up fun drinking games with joe buck...
and like i said the other day… even joe morgan can have a drinking game made up after him because he’s consistent enough… bob costas simply oozes all over himself over the sound of his own voice
Halo tailgate party... offense optional
by BigBangRobbDawgg on Jul 17, 2008 1:31 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Hmmm...
Weird, ‘cause I could not agree more with you about Joe Buck- and McCarver for that matter. It pains me that we have to listen to those two during the playoffs and World Series. Are there really that many people that like these clowns?
However, I rather like Costas. I know a lot of people share your sentiments, but I think he’s a passionate guy and it comes through in his writing, etc. To each his own I suppose… but high-fives to the Joe Buck comment.
White trashin' the 909
by Red114 on Jul 17, 2008 3:24 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
agree to disagree
Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.
Kobe tell me how my ass tastes
by hauldog on Jul 17, 2008 9:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, that's cool
some people like listening to 30 minute fireside chats with Costas passionately describing a Russian gymnast’s bouts poverty and starvation during the olympics, as he strokes himself to the sound of his own voice, thumbing through his thesauraus off camera so that he can find the most perfectly suited pretentious word to fill the situation with.
Some people don’t.
He also knows insanely little about the sports he broadcasts. He’s about as qualified to commentate on baseball as George Bush is on matters of constitutional law.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 17, 2008 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I find this comical. Very comical
“He also knows insanely little about the sports he broadcasts. He’s about as qualified to commentate on baseball as George Bush is on matters of constitutional law.”
Must be nice to be a recent college graduate who thinks the world has nothign to offer him intellectually because he already knows it all. Ah the early 20’s.
Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.
Kobe tell me how my ass tastes
by hauldog on Jul 17, 2008 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
hahahahaha
way to go.
Mike Scioscia: He provides to unlike method of your team member.
by howiestheman on Jul 17, 2008 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
On behalf of my generation...
I take offense to this.
Except, I know you’re right.
by BruinHalo on Jul 17, 2008 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Being a UC grad, you do know everything. I am a Gaucho.
J/K
Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.
Kobe tell me how my ass tastes
by hauldog on Jul 17, 2008 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
U Can Study Buzzed...
gotta love the place. DP FT ST, and drunk as a skunk.
by Downing Rules on Jul 17, 2008 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
BUZZZED
I went thru USC in the late 60’ and early 70’s as high as could be. Ah, the good ol’ days as a Hippie!!!!
"......and you can kiss it GOODBYE"
by Hapyorange on Jul 18, 2008 9:25 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You know all I said was agree to disagree
The vigor of your response indicates to me Costas must have raped your mother.
Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.
Kobe tell me how my ass tastes
by hauldog on Jul 17, 2008 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was about to say, actually
the vigor of your defense of him must mean that he saved your mother from rape.
If you have a problem with my hatred of Costas, attack the argument, not the person.
Merely hating a broadcaster for what I perceive as HUGE flaws in his game doesn’t somehow make me a ‘know-it-all.’
It’s called hyperbole, dude. You’ve been around long enough to see me use it plenty. It wasn’t anything personal against you. Last night I posted a short reply to this thread. I came back this morning and decided to give a reason for my comment since people disagreed…that’s what a blog is for. I wasn’t going after you as a person, and stuck ENTIRELY to my disdain for my Costas. But hey, what do I know…I’m just a recent college graduate know-it-all merely because I don’t like a sports broadcaster.
Makes sense.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 17, 2008 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And if my O.P. couldn't be taken as a joke
then I really don’t know what can be. I thought it was grossly apparent that I was just looking for a chance to make a JOKE about someone I dislike. How you took any personal slight out of that worth lashing out at is beyond me.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 17, 2008 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I am hardly being serious.
I have heard Costas on the radio numerous times and when he not talking about obscure shit on his show find him to be entertaining and knowledgeable.
If you took it as a personal attack I apologize. I enjoy your posts.
Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.
Kobe tell me how my ass tastes
by hauldog on Jul 17, 2008 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
90% of what I see is him during the olympics
in case you couldn’t tell.
Also, he said some really douchefabulous things about bloggers which has made me less than in-love with him.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 17, 2008 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The olympics suck. Of course you hate the guy
Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.
Kobe tell me how my ass tastes
by hauldog on Jul 17, 2008 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I missed the blogger comments
Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.
Kobe tell me how my ass tastes
by hauldog on Jul 17, 2008 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like the Olympics (some events) but that's a different story
here’s the quote:
“it’s one thing if somebody just sets up a blog from their mother’s basement in Albuquerque and they are who they are, and they’re a pathetic get-a-life loser, but now that pathetic get-a-life loser can piggyback onto someone who actually has some level of professional accountability and they can be comment No. 17 on Dan Le Batard’s column or Bernie Miklasz’ column in St. Louis. That, in most cases, grants a forum to somebody who has no particular insight or responsibility. Most of it is a combination of ignorance or invective.’‘
“It’s just a high-tech place for idiots to do what they used to do on bar stools or in school yards, if they were school yard bullies, or on men’s room walls in gas stations. That doesn’t mean that anyone with half a brain should respect it.’‘
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 17, 2008 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's true in so many situations...
but if you watched the whole show, Costas came to accept blogs as an acceptable sports analysis medium. I mean come on, look at 90% of the sports blogs out there. They’re horrible. That’s what makes HH such a strong site.
by BruinHalo on Jul 17, 2008 6:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
True or not, it exposes a lot of elitism
and a very strong “only us reporters can ever have legitimate expert insight” kind of attitude. It was only after being lambasted and having a chance to eat his own words that he seemed to turn around at all…I’d take his initial words as stronger evidence of how he really feels than any retraction…as I would with any person.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 17, 2008 6:39 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dudes......
Smoke a dube and relax…... Costas does suck though!!!
"......and you can kiss it GOODBYE"
by Hapyorange on Jul 18, 2008 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
OH MY GOD
BOB MARLEY IS BACK FROM THE DEAD, AND HE’S AN ANGELS FAN NOW!
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 18, 2008 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Dude, that might be the most unfortunate post you have ever made on HH.
Costas is probably THE most knowledgable and accomplished sportscaster of the current era who is commenting on baseball. He wrote the friggin’ book, for chrissake. George Will is pretty brilliant, too, and also adores the game, but he is not a sportcaster. Vin Scully has as much love for baseball, is part of the very fabric, and owns gobsmacks of experience, but he is not a commentator. And, not for nothing, Costas’ name is consistently bandied about as the next commissioner. Perhaps the only other person I have ever witnessed publicly dump on Costas as ignorant would be, uh, oh yeah, Barry Bonds. That’s some nice company you keep.
It sounds more like you know insanely little about Costas. (Who, by the way, has put far more at risk than you are able to do, by publicly repudiating George W. Bush long ago.)
by Stirrups on Jul 18, 2008 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't see anything in this post that isn't opinion
which brings us back to the comment that started it all: “agree to disagree.”
And I’ve read excerpts of that book you linked to. I found it horrendously shallow and uneven. His stance against interleague was nothing new, his dislike for the wild card completely ridiculous, and oddly enough, I even disagree with his complaints about salary structure.
But more importantly, especially when it comes to disliking a broadcaster (see: my hyperbolic joke of a ran above), I think he’s a pompous, arrogant, elitist, smug prick who gets off on hearing himself sound like an intellect for his audience. The last shred of respect I had for him died with his ignorant, ill-founded rant against bloggers.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 19, 2008 2:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
To clarify one comment
his support of a salary cap will never fly with me. Salary floor, sure, I can buy it. I won’t buy into capping, however.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 19, 2008 2:37 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Forgive my ignorance...
But can you please explain a salary floor? I’m sincerely unfamiliar with this term and I really couldn’t find a thorough explanation when I asked around. Hope I don’t sound too dumb.
White trashin' the 909
by Red114 on Jul 19, 2008 7:27 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Say the floor is $40 million
You have to spend $40+ million a year on salaries.
Seattle I would like to thank you for sucking. It allows me to get back to my roots: Hating Fremont.
Kobe tell me how my ass tastes
by hauldog on Jul 19, 2008 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If , by "this post", you mean mine, then let me point out the NOT opinions:
Costas DID write a contemporary book about baseball.
Costas IS considered a candidate for next baseball commissioner.
Costas DID repudiate the current Presidency.
However, on the subject of Costas, your’s is an opinion that I am delighted not to share.
by Stirrups on Jul 20, 2008 11:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Stirrups
What is so bold or risky about repudiating George W. Bush?
by Higz on Jul 21, 2008 2:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
2nd or 20 millionth
Don't call me Desmond
by highlandhalo on Jul 21, 2008 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was merely pointing out where Casey and Costas
are in agreement, in contrast to Casey’s absolute dissing of Costas, and that Costas was there first. I was neither condoning nor condemning the position of either, nor was I attempting to indicate anything unique or peculiar about either.
Francisco Rodriguez: 186 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.
by Stirrups on Jul 21, 2008 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
OK
On another note, I can see where Casey’s gets his opinion of Costas as arrogant and elitist. It seems that in his book, he tries to paint himself as the VOICE of the fans, that the changes he would make are undeniably good for baseball and good for the fans. Thanks for telling me what’s good for me, Bob! (I haven’t read the book, so if I’m way off base here please say so; however, consider the very title of the book…).
Just perusing a list of the ideas he posits makes me cringe. I mean I like the DH, I HAVE to like the wild card, and salary caps and revenue sharing go against the very nature of competition.
Bob Costas certainly doesn’t speak for me as a fan.
by Higz on Jul 21, 2008 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The title of his book is "A Fan's.."
Not “EVERY Fan’s…” He is speaking for himself, hoping that you and i agree with him. Choose not to, if you will. That’s Ok.
To consider whether or not you wish to read the whole book (now 8 years dated), jsut read the reviews from people who have here.
Francisco Rodriguez: 186 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.
by Stirrups on Jul 21, 2008 4:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sure.
But the title of the book is “Fair Ball.” The title implies that adoption by MLB of Costas’s changes will make the game fair. The implication is that baseball is UNFAIR without, essentially, revenue sharing. That’s arrogant.
Also note the tagline for the book on the webpage you linked: “This isn’t a commentator’s diatribe against the sport, but rather a fan’s case for baseball. What do I want? I think the same thing that most baseball fans want: To see the game prove worthy of our devotion.”
“What MOST baseball fans want”?
As if the game isn’t worthy of our devotion unless we make it Costasball? Smells like arrogance to me.
by Higz on Jul 21, 2008 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Well, you are drifting over the top now to advance your position.
Joe Posnanski wrote a book titled “The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America”. Does this mean that this country belonged to Buck? Or that Posnanski is arrogant for mandating that we all must declare Buck the “Soul of Baseball”?
And is it not possible that Costas, through his travels around the country and interfacing with numerous baseball fans, might have any reason to believe that most of the people he meets have agreed with his opinions? And maybe you and I are not as aware of his experiences as he is?
That he believes that baseball needs some changes to restore it’s position as our premier sport is nothing new, nor unique. That he believes that his ideas are the way to improve things is not so different than half the posts on this blog.
Francisco Rodriguez: 186 career saves. 2 career Panthers, tied with Hector Carrasco.
by Stirrups on Jul 21, 2008 6:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Real quick, point by point
1st: Way to oversimplify my interpretation of the book’s title/description.
2nd: Most fans Costas meets does not equal most fans of baseball.
3rd: Completely agree.
OK, now I want to read the book. But I’ll be sure to check it out from the library.
by Higz on Jul 22, 2008 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I've hated Bush and said so openly since he was governor of Texas
if Costas has me beat by any more than that, I apologize sincerely for my parents not procreating before his.
And I also apologize for not having the public platform from which to say it…I assure you I’d use it if I had it.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 22, 2008 2:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Um
those are obviously not opinions, but if you think those are what I was referring to in my post, then so be it.
My point was that you said I knew nothing about Costas, and that my opinion of him was ill-informed. Your post to prove my “ill-informed” position contained nothing of fact that proves Costas to be any different from what I think of him. Writing a book and being a candidate (and as far as I know, never THAT terribly seriously) for commissioner don’t do anything to invalidate what I had previously said.
And none of it does a thing to address my personal disdain for what I perceive to be first-class arrogance and snobbish pretension. If you’ve ever watched the man do an Olympics human-interest story, or even half-heartedly believe his comment about bloggers, it’s impossible to deny at least some degree of personal arrogance.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 22, 2008 2:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I like Costas
Always have. Yeah he’s amazingly full of himself at times but dammit, the man can call the game well.
My favorite Costas tidbit is still that he once blurted out “The team doesn’t want a repeat of Friday’s blow job” while announcing for the ABA’s Spirits of St. Louis. Awesome.
Gather around, children, for the Legend of Mighty Kirk McCaskill
by HaloDutch on Jul 17, 2008 7:26 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
I prefer Hud
With his “The Angels know if they want to win this game they have to score more runs than the other team”
by MH252525 on Jul 17, 2008 9:42 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
That's all anyone ever says, just in different words.
I swear, if one more person tells me to "work smarter, not harder"...
by Rally Manatee on Jul 17, 2008 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Isn't the whole schtick against John Madden exactly this?
Everyone always makes fun of the guy for stating the obvious, yet he’s also considered one of the most insightful football commentators.
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 17, 2008 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Madden sucks
The only thing John Madden has offered that was insightful was to expand who shows up on my “Gaydar”.
by Rev Halofan on Jul 17, 2008 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Or are you just upset
because he might be the only man that loves Brett Favre more than you?
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 17, 2008 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
on the contrary
he regularly spoiled glorious Packer moments when – with victory clinched – he blabbed on and on about how great a scene we were watching instead of just shutting his fat fucking piehole and letting us actually watch and enjoy it.
by Rev Halofan on Jul 17, 2008 5:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
What's your take on the Favre-drama-rama-power-hour, anyway?
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 17, 2008 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
STOP!
Please? Here too? I thought this might be the only sports related place I wouldn’t hear that name for the foreseeable future. I’ve given up sports talk radio and television until this shit show is resolved.
by ReggieBullits on Jul 17, 2008 5:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If everybody can talk about the god-damned Lakers then.........
by 44FAN on Jul 17, 2008 6:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Correction
god-loved Lakers
Angel Pitching, Angel Defense - get past that.
by vladtheimpaler on Jul 17, 2008 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
If God loves 'em so much
why’d they just get thoroughly spanked by a Boston team?
by Caseys Kiss of Death on Jul 18, 2008 3:53 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Here's my take...
(I realize you didn’t ask my opinion, but I already wrote something on the subject)
by Downing Rules on Jul 17, 2008 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow Rev...
Madden is worth your F-bomb? That’s quite a statement. Shoulda saved it for this weekend’s Red Sox series.
by BruinHalo on Jul 17, 2008 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I intend to be cheering
loudly, constantly and thoroughly this weekend.
by Rev Halofan on Jul 17, 2008 7:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
this weekend
might be a good opportunity for a moratorium on F-bomb usage limits.
Willits needs to play, every, single, freaking, day. Now.
by 101halo on Jul 18, 2008 12:22 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Back to Sportscasters...
who cares about sportscasters? Just mute the damn broadcast and watch. They are merely middlemen (and middlewomen) in the delivery of the entertainment product to our synapses. Cut out the middleman.
by Downing Rules on Jul 17, 2008 5:18 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

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