27. The Legendary Bob Costas Talks Baseball and Broadcasting
The Colin Cowherd Podcast
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Colin Cowherd Podcast, Colin looks ahead to MLB Opening Day by offering up three changes he thinks would dramatically improve the sport (1:00). He's joined by MLB Network Announcer and 28-time Emmy winner Bob Costas, who discusses the greatest team he ever covered (3:00), if the MLB talent pool is deeper than ever (6:00) the enduring greatness of Sandy Koufax (11:00), if MLB will ever be able to challenge the NFL in the current media environment (18:00), why analytics is bad for baseball as an entertainment product (26:00), how baseball should adapt to the tsunami of legalized sports gambling (31:00), his take on Drew Brees being groomed to oust Cris Collinsworth from Sunday Night Football booth (37:00), and why you'll never find him on Twitter (39:00).
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