Bob Costas Addresses Last Week's Comments

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BOB COSTAS IS FORGIVEN. SOMEWHAT.
Published 3/17/2008 at With Leather
... , Bob Costas did something pretty respectable: he took the effort to call Deadspin editor Will Leitch and clarify some of what he said. ...

Another Sad Day For The Guys Who Hate Bloggers
Published 3/17/2008 by Brooks at SPORTSbyBROOKS
... main media of which he is a member . What is now clear about Costas is that he doesn’t read anything outside main media websites. Because if he did, like Dan Le Batard and Michael Wilbon , he would understand the value and service sites like ours have brought to sports. Off- and on-the field. On the bright side, Costas is one of the last ten Americans who still gets excited when the newspaper hits the driveway. UPDATE : Just before we published the above post, Deadspin had Costas *clarifying* his comments about bloggers . One of Costas’ comments: “I still love to pick up a ...

The Show: Spring Break?
Published 3/17/2008 by DCScrap at on 205th
MILF Monday: Halle Berry. ( Holy Taco ) Cheerleaders at MLB baseball games! ( Busted Coverage ) Tara Reid does Spring Break in Cancun. ( DrunkenStepfather ) ASU's Jenn is The Fierce One. ( HGOFB ) Magdalena Neuner makes me care about biathalon. ( SbB ) Aylin Mujica makes a Monday better. ( Tasty Booze ) Topless table tennis. ( Totally Crap ) Mischa Barton nude scene. ( Bitten and Bound ) 14 smokin' hot photos of Nemoto Harumi. ( BBI ) Babes of Dancing with the Stars . ( Cuzoogle ) WNBA Live 2008. ( Brahsome ) Ultimate 11 worst sports costumes. ( Attuworld ) Rejected! ( Mac ...

Bob Costas Doesn't Hate All of Us, After All
Published 3/17/2008 by Tom Ziller at FanHouse
Filed under: NBA Media Watch, ESPN, BlogsBob Costas, a week after demonizing the state of online sports punditry, called up Deadspin's Will Leitch to clarify. While his efforts to clear the air will be commended (as they should be), I find myself still a bit unsatisfied. Here is Costas's most clear explanation of his point: "My commentary was aimed solely at a portion of Internet sports discourse, an unfortunately large portion, that consists of nothing more than potshots, ad hominem arguments, ignorance ...

Bob Costas Clarifies Comments On Bloggers
Published 3/17/2008 by Dave Rouleau at Baseball Digest Daily
Bob Costas contacted Deadspin to clarify comments last week that went like this: ''I understand with newspapers struggling and hoping to hold on to, or possibly expand their audiences, I understand why they do what they do,'' Costas said. 'But 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 ...

Costas clarifies
Published 3/18/2008 by Dave Studeman at The Hardball Times
Bob Costas placed a call to Deadspin to clarify his recent comments dissing bloggers. I'm not quite ready to forgive him. ...

Costas on his Quotes
Published 3/18/2008 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
Bob Costas called Deadspin to clarify his quotes I commented on here . From the Deadspin interview (Deadspin questions in bold): So you don't think anyone who writes a blog or comments online is a "get-a-life loser?" Some have inferred that I have this elitist view, and that I think only people who have been somehow "certified" have the right to comment on sports. It shouldn't be confused with somehow being superior. If you opened up anything to large numbers of participants, you'd find some real gems in there. But you'd have a lot of muck to sift through. I do think ...

Hottest Cheerleader Brackets
Published 3/18/2008 by Larry Brown at Larry Brown Sports
It has been confirmed: UCLA will win it all [FanIQ] Bob Costas still thinks I’m a loser in the basement [Deadspin] Why is there hostility between the mainstream media and bloggers? [Sedano Show] Your March Madness broadcast team schedules [Awful Announcing] Smush Parker’s hands love model’s breasts [You Been Blinded] Pacers looking to get rid of Larry Bird? [SPORTSbyBROOKS ...

Bob Costas Is, And Makes Me, A Cranky Magical Elf
Published 3/18/2008 by DMtShooter at Five Tool Tool - The Sports Blog That Loves You Back
... suppose, since he has a book and a living and TV punditocracy to his name, counts as someone with A Life. Congrats, Will -- Bob Costas thinks you're special! ...

Bob Costas Doesn’t Hate Bloggers After All
Published 3/18/2008 by Anthony Hall at MVN Outsider
... of bloggers made by Bob Costas last week? Well, those comments set off an uproar around the sports blogosphere — and apparently, Costas took notice. He gave Will Leitch of Deadspin a call yesterday to clarify those comments, expressing that he feels his statements about blogs were misunderstood. Here’s a quote that kinda summarizes his main point in the interview with Deadspin: ...

Deadspin: Bob Costas Addresses Last Week’s Comments
Published 3/18/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Deadspin: Bob Costas Addresses Last Week’s Comments Costas-Gavrass: La Petite Apocalypse strikes again! So you don’t think anyone who writes a blog or comments online is a “get-a-life loser?” Some have inferred that I have this elitist view, and that I think only people who have been somehow “certified” have the right to comment on sports. It shouldn’t be confused with somehow being superior. If you opened up anything to large numbers of participants, you’d find some real gems in there. But you’d have a lot of muck to sift through. I do think newspapers’ comment boards need ...

03/18 Morning Minute: The Second Half Strikes Again
Published 3/18/2008 by Scott at WaitingForNextYear
...  regarding Bob Costas, you’ll definitely want to see Will Leitch’s post  regarding a phone conversation that he had with Big Bob regarding his “feelings” toward bloggers. Have a great Tuesday, all. Related Content

Costas Clears the Air, LeBatard Chimes In
Published 3/18/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
Bob Costas is sorry. He wasn’t condemning anyone last week when he called bloggers “pathetic get-a-life losers.” He seemed sincere. Do “commenters use insults in the place of arguments” sometimes? Certainly. Happens everywhere though, including radio and TV. Yesterday on his radio show, Dan LeBatard decided to offer his opinion on the subject (many thanks to a reader from here, who scored the audio for everyone to listen to right here). LeBatard asked this of his GM [not verbatim]: “what makes you ...

Morning Constitutional: Pick UCLA
Published 3/18/2008 at The Sporting Blog
... | Fan IQ Critical Fanatic breaks down the bracket based on best looking cheerleaders. Seems as logic as any other technique. > Bob Costas Addresses Last Week's Comments | Deadspin Because Bob Costas' opinions matter more than anyone else's on the planet, you will read his opinions on ...

Waiting For Obama To Denouce & Reject Stephen A.’s Divisive Remarks About Scott Layden
Published 3/18/2008 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... “You have to assume that if you’ve done something reasonable well for an extended period of time, you have some notion of what you’re talking about.” - Bob Costas, Deadspin, March 18, 2008 ...

Bob Costas responds to his comments
Published 3/18/2008 by Fooch <ninersnation@gmail.com> at Niners Nation
... .  Costas made several comments about bloggers and his general disdain.  Well, Bob Costas decided to contact Deadspin to discuss his comments and add some context.  Whether you like Costas or not, the clarifications definitely help.  And of course Costas is no dummy knowing the influence Deadspin has in the blogosphere.  Here are a few highlights: ...

Late Tuesday Mini-Bullets
Published 3/18/2008 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... about the work Daryl Morey is doing in Houston. It's a good read no matter what, but especially for this line: "When he's on the clock at the draft, Morey has already reviewed hours of precisely catalogued video to help him determine whether Carl Landry will be just another sap or Paul Milsap." John Hollinger parses Houston's amazing defense. David Berri of the Wages of Wins says that the reason the Rockets have improved is not because of Tracy McGrady. Bob Costas tones down his stance on bloggers. Lance ...

Costas Clarifies
Published 3/18/2008 by BigBlueShoe <info@stampedeblue.com> at Stampede Blue
A week after insulting bloggers everywhere if the old "loser in his mom's basement" cliche, Bob Costas contacted Will Leitch at Deadspin and clarified his comments: ...

LINKBAWL: 3/18/08
Published 3/19/2008 by kellex at le basketbawl: The NBA Basketball Blog
... Bob Costas called into Deadspin yesterday to clarify the statements he had made about bloggers. He definitely didn't back down which gave me reason to understand why he is so damn pimp. ...

Bob Costas Clarifies and Amplifies
Published 3/19/2008 at Mike's Mets
... In case you haven't seen it, Bob Costas did an interview with Deadspin regarding the controversy stirred up by his comments that were reported by the Miami Herald last week. I've already written twice on this, ...

Fake Game Upheld by Fake Solidarity
Published 3/19/2008 by Lloyd "the barber" Moseby at Ghostrunner on First
... A BASE! He was promptly picked off second base, but still. Go on Sal. Shawn Marcum pitched in a minor league game and was lights out. Elsewhere: Brother-in-arms David Chalk applies a fine sheen of hate to Alex Rodriquez. And the Ghostrunners rejoice. Yankees blog summarize 10 people to avoid at the ballpark, could have saved 300 words by simply saying: "Yankee Fans" Somehow asshole-avoidance is now known as "collusion" Bob Costas calls Will Leitch out of blue, tries to come off as if he has a soul. Fails.This ...

Bloggolalia: Covering the Bob Costas Comments
Published 3/20/2008 by MCBias at Moderately Cerebral Bias
... 3. Take the good parts out of criticism, and use it to make your blog/comments better. Bloggers who refuse to acknowledge that criticism has any veracity come off as thin-skinned and arrogant, just as the MSM does when they do the same. Bob Costas made a great point when he said the following: ...

Friday March 20 Tape Measure Blasts
Published 3/20/2008 by davidbloom at BaseballHappenings.com
... Here I look at quality pieces I have come across the past few days. Voros Interviewed Dodger Sim’s Top 10 Sabermetrics table (H/T Roto Advice) Bob Costas slams Blogosphere, and the retraction Bill James 17th Law on a good AAA team Tampa Bay Rays are Like Movie Juno Zito in 100 words ...

Can’t We All Just Get Along? Mainstream Media v. Alternative Media
Published 3/21/2008 by maury at Maury Brown's Biz of Sports
... name doesn’t mean I’m insightful or tough and edgy. It means I’m an idiot. “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.” This, of course, didn’t tell the whole story. Jackson got it part way right, and so Costas responded by talking to Deadspin: I don’t have any problem at all ...

This Week's Links (3/17-3/21)
Published 3/21/2008 by Vegas Watch at Vegas Watch
Here's the video of the end of the WKU-Drake game. A great Posnanski post about his three favorite professional screw-ups. Live-blogging a re-reading of Moneyball. Hank Steinbrenner is ridiculous. Bob Costas called up Leitch to clarify some things. Silver details some of the additions to PECOTA. Some MLB predictions from Braves Journal: Worst token All-Star: Brian Wilson, Giants Dusty Baker throws Homer Bailey under the bus: April 17 Dusty throws Joey Votto ...

Bob Costas To Tackle Blogging On Costas Now
Published 3/25/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... Everyone knows that Bob Costas said he hated blogs, got hammered on the web, and then he recanted and said that he didn't hate all blogs. It was all very convenient if you ask me and ultimately sad when someone you once liked all of a sudden seems old and out of touch. But that's just one man's opinion (one that doesn't buy Costas' "apology). ...

Costas Clarifies His Comments
Published 3/25/2008 by Alpha Wolf at The Red and White From State
... In an interview with Will Leitch at Deadspin.com, sports analyst Bob Costas amplified his comments from the other day on fans’ discourse on the Internet: ...

Eagerly Awaiting the Bob Costas Panel on the ‘State of the Sports Media’
Published 3/26/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... to a Miami Herald reporter. Costas claims, of course, that it was all a misunderstanding, and bloggers are generally swell people. ...

Cold night downstate
Published 3/29/2008 by ryan vb at Cardinals Diaspora
... . Come on. Talk radio’s supposed to be about porn stars and poop jokes and prank calls and sometimes even porn stars making prank calls involving poop jokes. For all the vitriol spilled at the expense of bloggers by holier-then-thou types like Bob Costas, it amazes me that talk radio gets a (relatively) free ride. ...

Lucky Sevens
Published 4/9/2008 by Jay at The Futility Infielder
... have been taking their hacks at the blogosphere, apparently unanimous in belief that their status as high priests of sports media is threatened by (talk about a lack of originality -- they all use this one) guys in their underwear. Costas, generally the most reasonable of this bunch (and also the one for whom the written word isn't a meal ticket), was forced to chug a mug of ...

Morning Constitutional: Pick UCLA
Published 28 days ago at The Sporting Blog
... | Fan IQ Critical Fanatic breaks down the bracket based on best looking cheerleaders. Seems as logic as any other technique. > Bob Costas Addresses Last Week's Comments | Deadspin Because Bob Costas' opinions matter more than anyone else's on the planet, you will read his opinions on ...

Video flashback: The ghost of irony, 15 years later
Published 17 days ago by Dan Lamothe, Red Sox Monster at Red Sox Monster - MassLive.com
... highlighted by the play of a young Mo Vaughn and Roger Clemens' last season in Boston. This post isn't about any of that, though. No, this post is a walk down memory lane and the irony that comes with watching a video clip 15 years after the fact. Witness: So, help me here. How many people can you name who appeared in the video? I've got the following: -- Bob Costas, back when he was young and hip and not putting his foot in his mouth with bloggers . -- Wade Boggs, ...

Bob Costas says Buzz Bissinger 'had his game face on'
Published 11 days ago by Neil Best at Watchdog
... Click below for a transcript of my conversation with Costas after the show Tuesday night, in which he discusses the show itself and also a recent controversy over some blogger comments he made, which is recounted by Leitch himself here. ...