1. Let me start by getting the most significant observation of Bob Costas’s appearance on Bill Maher’s podcast, Club Random, out of the way: I’m not sure you’ll find many people who look better at 70 than Costas. If you told me Costas was 50, I’d believe it.
During his interview with Maher, Costas addressed his much-panned performance for TBS in last year’s Major League Baseball playoffs. The veteran play-by-play man admitted the criticism he received in the first game was warranted.
“This past October I did the Yankees and the Guardians in the Division Series and I felt like I was off my game,” Costas said. “Sort of like a pitcher who still has good stuff, but somehow, as they say, he didn’t have command, that night. I could feel it. In the first five or six innings of the first game, it’s the same philosophy, same approach, but I wasn’t nailing it. It didn’t have the same flow and rhythm to it. There were a few awkward moments. I hadn’t worked that much with Ron Darling, only two or three games. Very smart guy. Guy I like.”
