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tziller Costas's main argument seems to be that blogs and all "new" web trinkets like polls, etc. are just useless.
The blog world's a big place, but I still don't think you could find more than a couple sports bloggers less useful than Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, Skip Bayless, Jay Mariotti or Sam Smith. Could you?
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
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MVNAnthonyHall Talk about an outdated, old-fashioned, and downright irrelevant perspective towards blogging. Would NEVER have expected this from Costas. -
Jason What surprises me is that Costas could be uninformed enough to suggest that a bunch of inane comments floating around out there somehow invalidates the medium. You'd think that such an intelligent guy would have an idea of how much quality is also out here ... or at least know enough to avoid such broad brush strokes.
As popular as this new media thing seems to be getting, we're consistently reminded that there is still plenty of room for growth.
Bummer: Bob Costas Hates Bloggers
The Big Lead —
... Then, somewhere along the line, a blogger or 200 asked for media credentials and it was like, ‘whoa, hold the email, you want what?’ and some bloggers got mad and felt rejected and the Establishment was like, ‘these people are just angry jerkoffs’ and fun and cute was summarily replaced with mean and bitter. Today, a journalism idol of ours, Bob Costas, delivers the coup de grace - bloggers are idiots. ...
Anti-Blog Movement Recruits Another Soldier
WaitingForNextYear —
... has joined the cause. Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald wrote an article today about Costas’s comments , writing, “Costas, speaking before he emceed (and donated $50,000) at Tuesday’s Make-a-Wish sports auction at the Broward County Convention Center, doesn’t understand what compels so many nonjournalist sports fans to seek a forum for their opinions. Before the Internet, most fans were content talking about sports with their buddies. Now, in this interactive media age, many covet a wider audience, while often maintaining anonymity.”Today, I saw on ESPN a poll about which ...
Bob Costas thinks you are stupid
Stampede Blue —
... , the poster boy for ignorance in sports journalism, Bob Costas thinks we bloggers should shut up and leave the sports writing to people more intelligent than us: ...
BOB COSTAS KINDLY INVITED TO LICK MY BALLS
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop —
... Today, thanks to this article, that admiration has turned into something much more powerful: righteous anger and deep, burning hatred. Mmm, tastes better than admiration, too. ...
Diminutive Voice Of Reason Insists “Bloggers R Morons”
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
OK, that’s not exactly what Bob Costas said while speaking at a charity auction in Miami the other day. But since I lack the same journalistic background and training as say, Mike Barnicle, I’m gonna resort to cheap tactics like that on a regular basis. The Miami Herald’s Barry Jackson convey’s Costas’ sense of outrage.
NBC/HBO’s Bob Costas wondered this week about the wisdom of offering a wider forum to fans who can say whatever they wish without being held accountable.
Costas, speaking before he emceed (and donated $50,000) at Tuesday’s Make-a-Wish ...
Costas: Blogs a 'High-Tech Place for Idiots'
FanHouse —
... , apparently, is not a fan of the whole new media revolution. He makes plenty of generalizations about the online sportswriting in this discussion with the Miami Herald's Barry Jackson (ostensibly regarding ...
Bob Costas. Douchebag.
Flotsam - We'll tell you what to think —
Marv Blackstone Editor-in-chief It seems that Bob Costas has chimed in with his opinion of bloggers. Apparently, and disappointingly, he hates them. 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 or Bernie Miklasz' column in St. Louis. ...
Costas Too
ShysterBall —
Given that the ShysterBall origin story involves reacting to something stupid Bob Costas once said, I'm less surprised than many to hear that he has climbed aboard the anti-blog bandwagon, but climbed he has: I understand with newspapers struggling and hoping to hold on to, or possibly expand their audiences, I understand why they do what they do. 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 ...
Bob Costas Wants Me to Get a Life
Foul Balls —
... all, that's what people like Michael Wilbon , Jay Mariotti , and other writers and media folk keep telling me. I wasn't too worried about it before, because I figure as newspaper columnists, these guys are all just reacting to the shrinking newsrooms that surround them and the shrinking papers their companies keep putting out (Seriously, the Sun-Times has become a fucking pamphlet.) and look at bloggers and the internet as the reasons for their demise. Then Bob Costas had to go and say this , and I'm not sure what to think anymore. "it's one thing if somebody just sets ...
Brian Bannister was wrong, we need to get back to our basements, according to Bob Costas
THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball —
... What insights exactly does Bob Costas bring to the table that would get someone like Brian Bannister to be as impressed as he was with blogger Mike Fast? And, what would he say if he knew that Brian Bannister was comment #9 on Mike’s blog? ...
Angry Throughts on a Pointless Friday...
Drunk Jays Fans —
... Much of what he's quoted saying in Friday's Miami Herald seems to focus on the trend towards using comments sections that effectively turn mainstream sports articles into open forums. While I completely agree that there are an overwhelmingly high number of mental defectives out there weighing in on stuff they know fuck all about (see: Costas, Bob), this douche bag seems to feel that articles in respected journals ought to be carved in stone, free from any prodding that may expose the respected, accountable, professional, trained journalist as a fucking moron. ...
Bob Costas Is Not A Fan Of Sports Blogs
MVN Outsider —
... So this report caught be off-guard…if anything, I would have expected Costas to take a favorable stance towards sports blogging. The more voices, the more debate, the better, right? Alas, though, he was surprisingly harsh in his critique of blogs: ...
BOB COSTAS FEARS ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kranepool Society :: A New York Mets Blog —
... Guys like me scare Bob Costas. Costas in a story in the Miami Herald today calls out bloggers as bullies and low life’s but read this quote from Costas and tell me that he is not an insecure prick: ...
Miami Herald: Bob Costas: Sports bloggers weave a tangled web
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Miami Herald: Bob Costas: Sports bloggers weave a tangled web After 50 years...I bet the Red Dye No. 2 pollutant from the ‘58 Mickey Mantle attached to Bob Costas’ droopy ass has worked it’s way up to his amyloadosis-filled brain. ‘’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 ...
Does Bob Costas know what a blogger is?
The Hardball Times —
Does Bob Costas know what a blogger is? by Bryan Tsao March 14, 2008 Some recent comments by Bob Costas in a Miami Herald column are just the latest in the mainstream media bashing bloggers. What has always bugged me and was pointed out by Craig Calcaterra in the ...
Bob Costas joins ranks of ignorant MSM
BaseBlogging —
... in. Of course in the next sentence he refers to those same people as “idiots” and if you remember he also called bloggers “pathetic get-a-life losers” so feast on that irony for a moment.
And to clarify, I have no problem with Costas the broadcaster. I generally like things he’s involved with so there is no personal bias here. It’s just disappointed that Costas views himself as judge and jury for what is and isn’t acceptable.
Sports bloggers weave a tangled web - 03/14/2008 - MiamiHerald.com
Hat tip Inside the ...
"Wanting It" More
Mike's Mets —
... the mistake of thinking this would automatically be the case last year. Those that assume that what the Phillies were able to accomplish in one single month of last season -- repeat, one single month -- will carry over this year are also making a mistake. Every year is different.
Even Emmy Winning Sportscasters Can Be Idiots
Link via two of my favorite blogs, Can't Stop The Bleeding and the Eddie Kranepool Society: Bob Costas as quoted in the Miami Herald on bloggers:
... "But it's one thing if somebody just sets up a ...
Fridays are for Hate
Ghostrunner on First —
... Bob Costas is a smarmy douchebag. I've long found him intolerable, his smug condescension oozing through the screen. Shockingly, he doesn't like blogs. Good. If my daily haircare regiment included the application of lacquer, I'd be carefully who I classed a loser. After the Jays won the World Series in 1992, my mother wrote Bob Costas a letter. It read as follows: ...
Bob Costas to Fans: Shut Up and Leave the Opinions to Me!!
vorosmccracken.com —
... While you might read this as an incoherent screed on the fact that sports fans have decided to use the internet to voice their opinions, Bob Costas (whose baseball qualifications include being born in New York in the 1950s) does come up with a very insightful quote at the end: “It means I’m an idiot.” ...
Bob Costas, You’re On Notice!
crashburnalley.com —
... , or as many in “the biz” know him, Bob Costas. He has some not-so-nice things to say about bloggers in an article written by Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald . Costas, speaking before he emceed (and donated $50,000) at Tuesday’s Make-a-Wish sports auction at the Broward County Convention Center, doesn’t understand what compels so many nonjournalist sports fans to seek a forum for their opinions. I don’t know… maybe it’s the enjoyment one gets out of discussing something you enjoy? I’d much rather talk with a bunch of baseball fans than with some Englishmen about cricket. ...
Bob Costas Is Unhappy With Us
Five Tool Tool - The Sports Blog That Loves You Back —
... Of course, smart people can be annoying too, only it's much more disappointing when that happens. Witness today's exercise in flabby thinking from Bob Costas: ...
The Bloggers Roundtable - Colorado Rockies
Baseball Digest Daily —
Even if Bob Costas doesn't think we should be taken seriously , we will still continue these Bloggers Roundtables. We''ll really try harder to be as good as he is in the near future, but hey, we won't make any promise. John Brattain ...
I'm Am Not Outraged by Anything that Bob Costas Said
Field Gulls —
If you've been anywhere in the sports-blogosphere you've probably read this quote: "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 ...
‘Kudos & Wet Willies,’ debut edition
Bugs & Cranks —
... Bob Costas. Costas, most famous for his days broadcasting baseball, is no fan of sports bloggers. He said anyone with a sports blog is a “pathetic get-a-life loser,” and added that sports blogs are “just a high-tech place for idiots to do what they used to do on bar stools or in school yards.” And I used to like you, too, Bob, you pathetic little obnoxious, egotistical twerp. Yeah, we’re too stupid to have opinions or write coherent sentences — and we always type with one hand while the other is holding a beer ...
Colin Cowherd isn’t calling you losers a name. He’s criticizing. Duh.
The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL. —
... Done? Good. Because you see, it’s so easy to draw dumb distinctions. Blogger = bad. Reporter = good. If you call someone a name, even if you are an accredited member of the media, that makes you a blogger, unless, of course, your name is Bob Costas, in which case you can say this: ...
Bob Costas Addresses Last Week's Comments [Bob Costas]
Deadspin —
... comments from last week. We called him back and talked for about 20 minutes. Samplings of the interview follow. --------------------------
Did you just become aware of the fervor about your comments?
Yes, I've been on vacation, and just saw [Sunday]. I noted that many of the comments expressed disappointment. I wanted to clarify and amplify my points, not backtrack or apologize or anything.
All right. So did the Miami Herald story quote you correctly?
Yes, the quotes were accurate, but it didn't have everything I ...
Costas Hates Bloggers: Feeling Mutual
Bugs & Cranks —
... One such time-wasting endeavor proved somewhat fruitful: as I perused Friday’s Miami Herald sports section, I stumbled across an article about Bob Costas’s hatred for me. Perhaps his animus was not directed at me personally, but I drew some inferences; Costas decries the freedom that bloggers are given (freedom of speech and expression), and celebrates the notion that they should not be given press passes (because sports fans should not have access to sports). Here are a few snippets: ...
Bob Costas Ain't Lyin', Y'all Are Losers [Comment Ombudsman]
Deadspin —
... There's been much uproar and hullabaloo in the sportsblogosphere about Bob Costas' anti-blogger screed in the Miami Herald. Costas is the latest in a line of several old media types who have come out against modern communication technology. Who among us could forget ...
The Media Circus
JoeSportsFan.com —
... What would the Media Circus on 3/19/08 be if we didn’t at least mention the Bob Costas incident? In a matter of hours, a fellow St. Louisan went from being a respected journalist to the cliché-spouting scorn of the blog world thanks to his diatribe partially aimed at blogs in an interview by the Miami Herald. Rather than rehash our own two cents on the issue, we figured it would be a better use of space to get a sampling of how the blogosphere reacted to Costas’ pointed words: ...
Test Failed
Bob's Blog - Live from Lewisville —
... Clarence Goodson was left exposed in the expansion draft -- then took an offer from Norway. This year it looks like Davino will man a free role behind center backs Moor and Serioux, with Alex Yi and Aaron Pitchkolan in reserve. The selections in the wide spots seem to be about protecting the back line. At present, David Wagenfuhr, a defender by trade, and Dax McCarty, at his best as a defensive midfielder, appear to be the picks. Other random links: Costas versus the Bloggers … Costas, speaking before he emceed (and ...
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Mainstream Media v. Alternative Media
Maury Brown's Biz of Sports —
... The answer is, it depends.
Of course, this will not do for those firing off salvos. It’s got to be black or white, which is ridiculous. Anyone can publish and configure a blog in a matter of minutes, so now anyone with an internet connection and an opinion has a platform for all to see.
Welcome to a world of crap and treasure. Fine dining and greasy spoon. Baseball Prospectus and “The Hottie Wife/Girlfriend of Sports Guy” Blog.
So, when Barry Jackson reports on Bob Costas and his views on bloggers, you get the following: ...
Bob Costas Hates Sports Bloggers
The Bratwurst - Milwaukee Bucks Blog —
... In all fairness, Costas appears to have misdirected anger. If you read the original story, he was angered that fans voted for the Denver Nuggets in an ESPN poll about which Western Conference team wouldn’t make the playoffs. Isn’t that more a problem with the poll and the ESPN employee that created it? I mean the Denver Nuggets were the most obvious choice for a society that has been taught to choose the most-correct multiple choice answer. Perhaps Costas should be more concerned with the employees at ESPN, and a little less with fans actually openly ...
2008 Season Preview: St. Louis Cardinals
Yard Work —
... This bitterness has, as of late, started to creep into my discourse. I am not proud of this; after all, my entire popularity — massive as it is — depends on me being seen as a more intelligent version of the common man. And, while I firmly stand by everything I have said about the odious new species called bloggericus minimus, I have enough insight to know that my hard truths have been seen as nothing more than the arrogance of an out-of-touch elitist. So here I am, scribing away for a “blog.” Will you love me again now, Joe Sixpack? (What, no ...
Do You Fans Feel Put In Your Place By Bob Costas?
StateFans Nation —
Bob Costas On Sports Radio and Internet Blogs
“[The Internet and talk radio is] 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.”
Interestingly, I don’t feel any anger or rage at Costas for his opinion. After all, it is just an opinion.
But would any of you ever feel the urge to rant on a ...
Q&A with Tom Krasovic
Ducksnorts —
... Ducksnorts: Bob Costas recently took some heat for comments he made regarding bloggers and blogging. At the same time, many mainstream outlets (including the U-T) are adopting blogs as a part of their overall strategy. How do you see the roles of traditional news reporter and blogger evolving in the future? ...
Chatting with Krasovic
Knuckle Curve —
... From where I sit (not my mother’s basement in Albuquerque, for those who might be wondering), the marriage of traditional reporting and blogging is a win-win proposition. Once you get past the labels, we’re all trying to achieve the same goals, right? ...
Th Mainstream Media to Talk Blogs…Oh My!
Sports Media Journal —
... on the next edition of HBO’s Costas Now . According to he report, Costas will host a live program April 29th and tackle the topic of the changing sports media landscape. Included in the program will be a discussion of sports blogs and sports radio and their impact in driving discussion. As you may know Costas was questioned a couple of weeks back on his perceptions of the new media and sports coverage. He later clarified his comments to Will Leitch at ...
Lucky Sevens
The Futility Infielder —
... . The deathless topic of Bloggers versus Mainstream Media has been in the news again; along with many a stressed-out beat man taking his swipes, higher-profiler hacks like Bob Costas and ...
