1st off, thank you for having a great baseball mind like the great Bob Costas. I'm so grateful that you mentioned great 2nd basemen. As a Lifelong Detroit Tigers Fan, I believe that The Legendary Lou Whitaker, should be iin The Baseball Hall of Fame. Along with Tigers HOFER Alan Trammell, they were probably the best double play combination in recent MLB history.
For the past decade.. maybe 2 decades.. people who know and love Baseball, have lamented it's ever shrinking popularity. BASEBALL needs a "Renaissance" .. and THIS BOOST of popularity and attention to Baseball WORLDWIDE. The Dodgers getting him.. and expanding his reach and BASEBALL POPULARITY is a no brainer GREAT thing for baseball.
@@user-lx8fu7uk7x Possibly some day it might be, but baseball is mostly a regional sport, cheered for by fans of that team, hence why Sunday night baseball ratings are so low. I guess we will have to see what impact this has in Asia
Manfred has made the game improvements Selig sat on. I think the move was a decade too late. Younger fans have tuned baseball out. Nothing was worse on ESPN radio than a 4+ hr Yankees - Red Sox game. The players have adjusted and 2 1/2 hour games are about right.
@@burprobrox9134Agree...Lance was a great sprinter but the hills killed him. We will never know the absolute truth due to the massive doping that was going on before Lance started "the program" and after he mastered it.
Professional sports both watching on TV and even more so watching a game in person has become outlandishly expensive. Responsible people many of those of modest means simply will not or can not afford to watch most of these games anymore. Then you see players getting paid three quarters of a Billion dollars to play a game and organizations and owners making even more money then that. It makes me sick. Going back to the 90s and earlier tickets and tv bills for cable were reasonable and everyone essentially had access to watch their sports teams and heroes. No longer. Like the rest of America it has become ruined by greed.
Or they can get a salary cap and fix the sport so it doesn't matter which market a player is in. Nobody says it's bad for football that Mahomes is in Kansas City. Because in the NFL, market is irrelevant. Yet clueless baseball fans keep defending this broken system, instead of demanding better.
There are probably fewer "clean" elite professional athletes than we can even imagine, than not. With billions available to "winners" pharmaceutical enhancement is an option.
Not one of the 10 year contracts have panned out for the teams. Players in their later 30s and early 40s just can't maintain their performance without some enhancing drugs. Bryce Harper bringing up an extension was laughable.
they eventually won't care about steroids: PED use is endemic is US society-even among casual gym goers. Of course they hide it under the excuse of "trt". And in my opinion, HOF has really watered down its standards. The HOF should be for those generational players who dominated their eras.
The baseball HOF is so screwed up, compared to other sports HOF's. You don't hear football, hockey or basketball players or writers whining about players busted for using steroids getting in their HOF's. Baseball has a 162 game reg season, so the writers are spending 200+ days per year w/these superstars. And since the writers decide who gets into the HOF the writers are using the HOF as a way to get back at players who they didn't like or think disrespected or didn't treat them the way they felt they deserved to be treated. The entire system for getting into the baseball HOF has become so annoying. Bonds & Clemens deserve to be in, it's not like they were the only ones caught using. Average players, pitchers, relievers & bench players were caught too. So everyone was using at that time, singling out the superstars just feels petty & wrong
Always loved Costas storytelling baseball history. But to be honest, he's not a very good play by play guy on TV. Last season's playoffs were tough to watch with him.
Outstanding interview.Hey Dan you compare 49ers better than Cowboys. Because 49ers. Scored more points on Eagles,But Look How Many points Cowboys scored on Seahawks, n look how many 49ers scored on Seahawks? Cowboys Are The Better improved team today!! Thanks
Bob Costas talking shit about Canada. Ohtani and baseball would have been just fine if he signed in Toronto. Stop with this ridiculous garbage and nonsense about Canada. It’s tone death and feeds into the hate.
