Bob Costas

[Benny Profane]

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[Benny Profane]

I like my sig with that pic

[supercow]

and to top it off what was with the innane political drivel that the two of them kept going into, WHATEVER your politcal beliefs isn't the olympics just about sport? It wasn't offensive or thinly veiled or anything like that I just thought it would have been better had it not been included.

As for great sportscasters how's about Vin Scully and Chick Hearn? Costas is a hack, how anyone can still support the idea of Pete Rose getting into cooperstown with a straight face like he does is just ridiculous

[Benny Profane]

oooh, look at the pretty numbers....

http://www.peterose.com/Stats.html

134 HR . What a pussy.

[Oopsie Daisy]

Originally posted by watersnowdirt
Totally agree - I was embarassed for him. Between the "get up" comments, and saying things like "Here's the team from Djibouti.... you bet your Djibouti!!", I was horrified. Especially at this moment in history, we don't need to be making bigger asses of ourselves.

Ruined it for me. I'm Greek, so was REALLY looking forward to this, and the moment was extremely tainted. Need to find another way to watch...

I saw only part of the opening ceremony. Blessedly, it was while I was eating in a restaurant, and they had the sound turned off.

The "bet your Djibouti!" line made me laugh reading it here on the board (gotta love a lame pun), but it seems disrespectful and out of line in the context of the broadcast. Couldn't they have found some commentators with real brains, maybe some interesting historians or sumfin', to lend some smarts to the jibber-jabber?

For example, I'd love to have even a cheesy graphic onscreen showing where Djibouti is. Of course, I'll go Google it now, but it'd be cool to treat the event as the global gathering it should be.

Frickin' US TV!

[supercow]

Originally posted by Benny Profane
oooh, look at the pretty numbers....

http://www.peterose.com/Stats.html

134 HR . What a pussy.

actually that would be triples 160 would be the HR totals

[yogachik]

Originally posted by Oopsie Daisy
Couldn't they have found some commentators with real brains, maybe some interesting historians or sumfin', to lend some smarts to the jibber-jabber?

For example, I'd love to have even a cheesy graphic onscreen showing where Djibouti is.

I thought that all night long. I wanted to know where these places were and something about the country other than, for example, Bob Costas saying, "Remember Bogart? Remember Casablanca? Heeeeere's Morrocco!!!"

They did have some strange little globe up with a highlighted blobby area.

[mr_gyptian]

Ok fine. That was cheesy, but honestly what the hell was supposed to be said? He did a very good job with the former Yugoslavian countries. This was an incredibly long event. to nitpick four or five bad jokes is disengenous at best.

Matt Lauer is much better suited for that type of event.

[The AD]

Originally posted by Oopsie Daisy
The "bet your Djibouti!" line made me laugh reading it here on the board (gotta love a lame pun), but it seems disrespectful and out of line in the context of the broadcast.

My other favorite country is Dahomey. I think it's now called Benin, though. But, come on, how can you discuss either Djibouti or Dahomey and not make a pun? I gotta give Costas a free pass on that one.

[mr_gyptian]

he took a pretty good shot at the Saudi's, too.

Name a person that gets in front of the camera on purpose that isn't pompous and/or arrogant. Then multiply that by the fact that he is one of the best at what he does. You don't get to that level without having a certain amount of arrogance.

[Arty50]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Bob Costas must die.

There was a time when I liked him, then he started getting "controversial." His problem is that he takes himself way too seriously. He's always trying to dig deeper, get the real scoop. You know what Bob, we want to see the friggen score. Maybe even some nice anecdote about the persons life. But fer christ's sake, we don't need to see an athlete cry because his grandfather's nephew's brother's uncle's cousin just shot someone and drove the Ford off a cliff. People just don't give a shit about that.

That's my main problem with him. I don't mind his play by play and such. It's when he takes editorial license to spout off a bunch of bs. Even worse are his interviews. He just gets way too personal. It's friggen sports, not the National Enquirer!!! The guy needs to learn when to shut up.

[Benny Profane]

Bob Costas, Man of Controversy, Man of the People. Who woulda thunk.

Buenos noches.

[Mott the Hoople]

Greece put on a beautiful opening ceremony. Spoiled only by the pretentious little cocksucker and empty-headed bimbo NBC put on the set. IMHO.

[Oopsie Daisy]

Butbutbut, why must we have a sports-expert, and perky talk-show person, handling the opening ceremonies? Save the stat-stuff and quips (Costas), and the human interest stuff (Couric), for the rest of the programming, if you must.

My dream "color commentary" panel:

The writer David Foster Wallace, for the general fucked-upedness and weirdosity of the ceremony.

That "Hero with a Thousand Faces" dude, J. Campbell, for all the canonical hero-quest implications.

The super-cool history prof I had at UCLA who knew how to have FUN with the subject. Eugen Weber.

Whoever the latest, greatest, sassiest fashion designer is, for bitchy commentary on the "get-ups."

Yogacheeks, I missed the blobby globe. LOL. Too busy stuffin' the ol' pie hole with 3rd Street Promenade foodstuffs. Goddamn, that place has too much amplified music! Hateful.

[Game Over]

Originally posted by Benny Profane
Bob Costas, Man of Controversy, Man of the People. Who woulda thunk.

No joke.

But I got to say-- if I had a list, he would be at the bottom.

[dipstik]

I know, how about no commentators at all? (and I don't mean that in a sarcastic way.) Most of the commentary was just useless and didn't really serve a purpose. Anybody hear when Katie Couric said something to the effect of "boy those guys must have spent a lot of time in makeup" (reffering to the guys posing as greek statues) and Bob Costas says "the things you do for your country!" It was just stupid....

Yoga and WSD are right too, that shit about the native clothing being a "get-up" is so disrespectful.

[non grata]

Originally posted by yogachik
... Bob Costas saying, "Remember Bogart? Remember Casablanca? Heeeeere's Morrocco!!!"

or couric connecting somalia with black hawk down. that was pleasant... maybe she should have added the killing fields for cambodia or fahrenheit 9/11 for the us.

[Woodsy]

Originally posted by mr_gyptian
He's the best sport's caster on earth.

edit: a tie with Al Michaels. I just dodged a lightening bolt.

dear God does the status quo have you on their payroll?

[ak_powder_monkey]

Is he the guy who called the dinner roll in 2002? "And Bake a 420 for 15 minutes and you got a dinner roll" as johnny Mosely lays out a corked 720

God what a fag

[L7]

In general I just can't stand the US commentators. You would think the only ones in an event are US, even when they don't have a hope. It's about the athletes and the competion not just about winning.

Maybe it's because we suck at so many sports that our networks cover a lot more sports and a lot more competitors in those sports.

I hate when someone is getting slaughtered and they keep screaming 'will he catch up'. NO you stupid fuck he's clearly being outclassed.

Yesterday's 4x200 relay sure highlighted how the chance of Phelps winning 8 golds was oversold. 1 guy doesn't make a relay team and apparently the SAs were good enough they should have been mentioned.

[glademaster]

Yeah, Bob Costas sucks big time, although his commentary about the Summer Olympics is not as bad as the Winter ones, where his total lack of knowledge about anything ski related was infuriating to even try to listen to. I ended up watching most of the events with the volume turned off on my TV. Dumbass.

[ole2planker]

Originally posted by dipstik
I know, how about no commentators at all? (and I don't mean that in a sarcastic way.)

I'll second that motion.

I grew up near Niagara Falls, New York. One of the benefits of living there is that you get both the US TV stations out of Buffalo and the Canadian TV stations out of Toronto. In every sport, the Canadian broadcasts were much better because the commentators kept their mouths shut unless they had something worthwhile to add. I hate hockey on US TV because of the constant unnecessary talking.

[The AD]

Originally posted by L7
Yesterday's 4x200 relay sure highlighted how the chance of Phelps winning 8 golds was oversold. 1 guy doesn't make a relay team and apparently the SAs were good enough they should have been mentioned.

4x100 actually. Yeah, the South African team was something like a tenth of a second off the world record in the prelim swim. The commentators knew this. And honestly they weren't really that much of a dark horse. With the exception of one swimmer, all these guys have posted great times before.

And as for Phelps. He didn't even swim that well. If you had four Phelps' on the relay they probably wouldn't have even medaled. The third and fourth guys on the U.S. team were both much faster than Phelps.

Tonight's 200 free finals will be very exciting though. Phelps has his work cut out to even medal. I think the gold will be a shootout between Thorpe and Peter VDH.

[Obstruction]

Womens beach volley ball with the sound off ... or sync it with dark side of the moon if you like.

That is all ye need know.

[Big E]

Originally posted by iceman
All-time, you gotta go with Johnny Most.

One of my favs...

A b-ball tape I have somewhere, one of those bloopers tapes probably, has him doing a preseason game when the Celtics were over in Europe. They were playing the Yugoslavian national team I think, who had the ball. His call [gravely voice] "and they bring it up, swings it over to Aberdovich, and now inside ... and now back out to the little guy ... oh, boy, I'm having a lot of trouble with these names..." [/gravely voice]

And of course:

"And there's a steal by Bird, over to DJ..."