Mike Francesa is tired of hearing Bob Costas constantly talking, despite that being his job to do while calling sports.
The decorated broadcaster has called the ALDS games between the New York Yankees and Cleveland Guardians for TBS. Not everyone has enjoyed him coming back to the booth.
During his podcast for BetRivers Network, Francesa blasted Costas for “driving everybody crazy” during his play-by-play coverage.
“Costas will not be quiet no matter what,” Francesa said. “He thinks every word is golden because he just will not shut up. Everything’s a history lesson. We don’t need a history lesson every two seconds. Everybody’s a Yankee fan. They have Yankee history, they understand Yankee history. They know it backwards and forwards. This is not a history class. It’s a baseball game. Be quiet! Do the game.”
He also called out Costas for mentioning “a thousand times” that New York doubled Cleveland’s home run total during the regular season.
“He’s driving everybody crazy. He must’ve said a thousand times, ‘The Yankee home runs…’ We know the Yankees have doubled their home runs this year! We know the [Guardians] hit 127 homers and the Yankees 254. We know that! Everybody knows it! Make the point once, not 4,000 times!”
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After the Yankees won in Game 4, Francesa still went after Costas.
“Just gotta get through one more game of Bob talking so much. I feel bad for Ron [Darling]. Ron’s gonna hear Bob in his sleep. We all know that Bob Costas is a very talented announcer, a talented sportscaster, I’ve known him my whole adult life,” Francesa said. “But he has absolutely just talked on and on and on and just droned on and on and on this entire series about absolutely nothing, for the most part. I mean, just please give the game tomorrow night a chance to breathe, please, it’s a Game 5, it’s a dramatic series, a dramatic fifth and deciding game.
“Let it breathe, Bob please. You’ve squeezed this thing for all its life. It’s almost like Bob has been locked away somewhere, dying to talk, and now you can’t shut him up, because he just has not stopped talking for a second in the Yankees series. Not even a little has he stopped talking. About everything! No matter what it is, he just never stops. Please, let the dramatic Game 5 breathe a little bit.”
The Yankees and Indians are currently playing in Game 5 after it was postponed on Tuesday.
