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:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   “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 or Bernie Miklasz’ column in St. Louis. That, in most cases, grants a forum to somebody who has no particular insight or responsibility. Most of it is a combination of ignorance or invective.”

 OUCH, I’M WOUNDED!!!!!! First off I love how guys my age and older HATE new things. Whether it’s technology or music or teenagers, the folks of  my generation either never got a date during their teen age years or got the shit kicked out of them in school and now that they have some success they knock anything that’s in vogue these days. Sad.  Now as much as I have a fucking ball with my computer and surfing the internet I love to read an actual newspaper. Nothing better than having the 5 daily’s spread out on the dining room table and going through each and every one of them. But then again there is something incredible about reading about my Celtics every morning in the Globe and reading what’s going on in Philly, Atlanta, D.C. and Miami all on my laptop.     I don’t want to be the bully gang that Costas thinks I belong to but the truth is Costas has not been worth listening to since he abandoned baseball. To be honest his COSTAS NOW show blows. You need to be funny and engaging on a show like that which are two traits Costas lacks. Same thing on Football Night in America where Costas and Keith Olberman form the duo Jerk Offs Squared. For a guy who has no use for websites he sure follows them pretty closely:     ”Today, I saw on ESPN a poll about which Western Conference teams would not make the playoffs,” Costas said. “Well, 46 percent said the Denver Nuggets, which has zero percent influence on anything. No reasonable person who cares about the NBA should care about that. Who has the time or the inclination to do this, even if you’re sitting on your computer?

Why would you weigh in on it?”Bob-A-Loo you’re losing your mind here. Let me get this straight your ranting about a poll on a website that you feel is useless but you went to it anyway?  Again the majority of the websites Costas hates are because they are hip and happening as was Costas at one time but now he’s just old, tired, and irrelevant. Maybe his beloved Highlanders could cheer him up and make him an honorary bat boy.

Then Costas goes on how posters and bloggers are nasty and  mean spirited:

What bothers Costas — and he’s not alone — is Internet and talk radio commentary that “confuses simple mean-spiritedness and stupidity with edginess. Just because I can call someone a 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.” 

The best part of Costas rant is that he’s scared. Like Sonny told C in a Bronx Tale  he’d rather be feared than loved I’m glad that I have people close to me that love me and guys like the Great Bob Costas who fear me.  Maybe one day I’ll get lucky and meet Costas walking around Mid Town, I’ll jack his ass up for his lunch money.