Costas leaves HBO, joins MLB Network

Effective immediately, will host interview show and do some play-by-play.
I like this network more and more.

http://mlbnetwork.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090203&content_id=3793902&vkey=&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

 

This network gets better and better. I enjoy a lot of the programming now, and I can't wait to see what it's able to do during the season.

 

wow thats a great catch, i really like costas.

 

They showed him asking Torre about Manny on Hot Stove. Their coverage of the Manny thing was way too much. He turned down a contract offer. They went on about it so long, I wonder how they can possibly devote more time to it when he DOES sign with someone. In fact, I think they may have spent more time on it than Manny spent playing for the Dodgers.

 

It's the most-talked about story in the field they happen to cover. Not a problem.

 

I like baseball or I wouldn't have been watching it in the first place. But it was so over-the-top repetitive that you'd really have to be a mental patient who stalks Manny to want that much on it.

 

Is a move that improves the quality of both networks.

 

Well, that's another thousand jobs lost.

 

With all the technology we have, can't Costas get a better hair dye than the shoe polish Tim McCarver uses?

Or maybe we could just let TV guys have gray hair?

 

Can he work at NBC and at an entity owned by MLB?
Does this bother anyone else?

 

Considering that in his two main NBC jobs--the NFL and the Olympics--he's working for a network that is a rights-holder and thus a partner of the NFL and IOC, no, it doesn't bother me. Editorial independence was already out the window.

 

That's what I was going to ask?

When baseball fucks up something -- and it will -- how hard will Costas criticize it? Will Bud be treated with kid gloves?

I hope he's not neutered like the writers at MLB.com.