Costas Brushes Back Bonds "Midget" Comment

Broadcaster Content With Natural Build, Not Upset By Supersized Slugger

(AP)  A day after Barry Bonds called him a "little midget man who knows (nothing) about baseball," broadcaster Bob Costas said he wasn't upset with the San Francisco Giants slugger and responded with a jab of his own.

"As anyone can plainly see, I'm 5-6; and a strapping 150, and unlike some people, I came by all of it naturally," Costas said Thursday in a telephone interview.

On this week's edition of HBO's "Costas Now," commissioner Bud Selig, Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and chemist Patrick Arnold discussed Bonds, his pursuit of Hank Aaron's home run record and suspicions that Bonds has used steroids. Schilling and Arnold said they believed Bonds had taken performance-enhancing drugs.

Bonds viewed at least part of the show before Wednesday's game against Atlanta.

"I've actually always had a pretty cordial relationship with Barry," Costas said. "I have no ill feelings toward him personally. I regard him as one of the greatest players of all time who got inauthentic boost and then became a superhuman player. I wish him no ill whatsoever."

Costas said he understood why Bonds might have denigrated him.

"He's under tremendous scrutiny and some pressure. It's no big deal," Costas said. "This is a consequence of doing your job, and I've never tried to do my job in any case with the intention of calling attention to myself. I think if people watch the program, they can judge for themselves."

[terrapin78]

Tainted!

[jasbek]

Bonds is a mess and an embarassement to the sport. Then he opens his big mouth and makes useless comments. Surprise, surprise.

[samthetvcat]

Costas' comment's a pretty good example of how to take the high road, don't you think? I'm going to bookmark this page and use it as a reference :)

[agnim]

Way to go, Barry.
Swat the little sucker for a home run. LOL

Another irresponsible talking head feeding hysteria with gossips and ALLEGATIONS just to get attention to his dwarf self.

[redhoffer]

Congrats to Bonds for sticking up for himself. If anyone buys that Schilling BS that he never heard anything about steroids than you are a sheep. Schilling is the self-promoting perp here.
We now know that the most honest persons at that congressional hearing were McGuire, simply because he refused to testify, and Canseco.
Schilling wants to follow Selig's lead and attack anyone (See J. Giambi) who wants to discuss openly the Steroid Era.
I'd rather know the truth, people like Schilling and Costas can promote themselves like they want, but we know Bonds hit his homers against pitchers who were juiced too, the whole league was as juiced as the Tour de France.
Go Barry! Baseball deserves for you to get that record.
I had rooted for the Red Sox, but I am going for the Yankees now. Giambi is a hero who tried to come clean and was persecuted for it. Schill is just a punk who wants to hide the truth from us.

[keithle1]

Bonds is the worst of the worst. Hope he gets an arm torn off in a freak car accident this weekend. Hank Aaron is at one end of the spectrum and Bonds is at the other. I wish Bonds
nothing but bad luck. A curse on his house!

[agnim]

"Costas' comment's a pretty good example of how to take the high road, don't you think?
Posted by SamTheTVCat at 03:52 PM : Jul 27, 2007"

Methinks the comment is a joke: The little midget has to take the 'high road' on the shoulder of a giant; how else would the dwarf been see when he's down so low? LOL

[agnim]

A midget tries to get attention by seeking to stand on the shoulders of a Black giant, San Fran Giant, by creating a firestorm around divisive rumors and gossips.

And all this national energies are being misdirected while hundreds of thousands of humans are being slaughtered in Iraq by our hands, and Americans continue to waste tens of thousands of lives and limbs for naught. Tsk-tsk.

Swat the little sucker, Mr BB, Mr Base Ball, as if he were a baseball.

[keithle1]

Bonds is slime. The last baseball player people respected was Cal Ripken, Jr. Talk to baseball scholars & writers about Bonds. See if they sing his praises. He is such a punk of the first order.