I Am Taking Credit For Bob Costas Retiring From Baseball Play-By-Play

You're welcome, baseball fans. 

It wasn't easy, but someone had to finally step up and confront Bob Costas for his unbelievably painful MLB broadcasting this past postseason. 

I don't normally like calling out legends, but I gave Mr. Costas TWO postseason chances and he refused to listen or take my advice on adapting his broadcast style to be less talking-down, as if we were sitting in a classroom, as well as to stop speaking in soundbites like we are still in the 1960s. 

My message was simple: It's 2024, Bob, and things have changed. Clearly, I was right, as Bob Costas has officially retired from baseball play by play. 

Bob Costas's final broadcast was last month's ALDS between the Yankees and the Kansas City Royals in which he found his name trending across social media during every single game. As I wrote at the time, it's one thing to have your name trend for one day, but when it's multiple times in a week, and it happens to coincide with your broadcasting duties? Yeah, that's not ideal.

I truly mean no disrespect and God knows Bob Costas has paved the way for generations of current and future broadcasters, including myself. But when it came to MLB in particular, he just didn't have it anymore. His style didn't resonate anymore and rather than adapt or try to play the game of being relevant, the aging Costas stood his ground. With a Hall of Fame broadcast resume like he has, he clearly earned his right to do so. But don't blame me, Bob, for your own actions!

As I wrote at the time, Costas's recent MLB broadcasting stints sounded as if he was doing an NBC Olympics broadcast and explaining to viewers a game that none of us have seen or were familiar with. With such a vast knowledge of the history of the game and