For Bob Costas, he goes from covering the ‘98 playoffs with Michael and the last dance then he walks into the greatest summer of the history of the MLB. That had to be an incredible sports year for him witnessing all of this up close.

It may have been inauthentic, but the way I felt watching it was not. It brought baseball back for one magical season. That homerun chase to me was bigger than that world series that year.

@rinocerota

Жыл бұрын

No one cares how you felt..💉💊🧪

@jamiealexander7065

10 ай бұрын

It wasn't inauthentic at all. All the top athletes use drugs.

@agoodpitch9

Ай бұрын

like getting a high from a drug that has now ruined your health

Steroids or not, that home run race saved the game...amazing how everyone in the media forgets or never mentions what serious trouble baseball was in before that season

@amehta23

4 жыл бұрын

Check the data on deadspin, suggests this isn’t true

@jackoakes1998

4 жыл бұрын

Games dead now so it didn't really save it just kept it alive or relevant for 20 more years till a new cheating scandal destroyed the game. It's a cheaters game and no one has fun watching cheaters

@rushrush1209

4 жыл бұрын

It looks baseball will need something else to save them with them being slow to start playing again.

@swordstoplowshares9492

4 жыл бұрын

@Jack Oakes it will survive this too. That said I haven’t watched much since the 94’ strike

@Brandon-ld2dn

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, baseball is very “saved” right now hahaha

Bob Costas called the Cubs/Cards game in '84 when Ryne Sandurg put on a show. One of the greatest days at Wrigley ever. At that time, baseball was still pure, mostly.

MLB knew! Not only Mark and Sammy were taking. Everyone was doing it.

@ericsigersmith2831

4 жыл бұрын

Not sure but I wanna say McGwire had andro in his locker lmao

@rockedthecrapout

4 жыл бұрын

Not JR.

@diemrcupcake

4 жыл бұрын

@@rockedthecrapout yeah not Jr

@UnHolyWible

4 жыл бұрын

@@diemrcupcake I still can't believe Jr. didn't break Maris' record. He hit 56 2 straight seasons and I thought for sure he was gonna break it.

@vernpascal1531

4 жыл бұрын

@@UnHolyWible -Yeah look at his body when he came in and towards the end of his career and compare it with Bonds and McGwire...I'm sure he would have hit 70 juiced, as he was naturally a much better power hitter than Bonds his first 5 years or so...

Last time i saw bob costas on last dance and he still young😂

@daporkoil1

4 жыл бұрын

It's tv makeup

I don't care if they used steroids. It was the best season ever. Summer of 98 was special. I love football and basketball but baseball in 98 was right there with them.

@SteveDave211

4 жыл бұрын

People like Bob believe just Cal Ripken saved MLB yet this did as it got national attention and helped MLB get to being number 2 for awhile in Amercia and helped saved MLB after 1994. Even every Dominican I knew put Sosa number on they're back wind shield after every homerun. Bob and other journalist pretended they didn't know something was up during that era yet like owners and Selig they didn't care it was great for business and it was fu :)

@Anthony-hu3rj

4 жыл бұрын

Cruzan26, let me guess. Were about 12-14 years old? Serious question.

@jarjarbinks4744

4 жыл бұрын

Anthony Tf?

@TheCruzan26

4 жыл бұрын

@@Anthony-hu3rj I was stationed in South Dakota at the time, I doubt they let 12 years old join the Air Force.

Bob with a big summer of 98! NBA Finals and this

My wife never could get his name right "Oh look- there's Sammy Salsa!"

@mitchellhughes5180

4 жыл бұрын

🤣

@JaysonT1

3 жыл бұрын

Lol.

@manuelcabrera2801

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@adamdorgant9454

Жыл бұрын

This is too Funny, and now Sosa is a white man!!!!

It's kind of like Christmas. Even though now you know that Santa wasn't the one who delivered the gifts, you'll have fond memories of those times when you didn't know the truth.

Steroids or not, that HR race was what the game needed. More people talk about that today than the Yankees winning 114 games that year. What does that tell you? Those were great times to be a fan.

One of my most memorable summers ever. I was 11 watching the homerun chase, I was intrigued and watching my first run through of Friends, and couldn't wait for WCW Monday Night Nitro (NWO Wolfpack, Hulk, Goldberg.) Back when going to the pool that summer was everything.

@maceomillions2192

4 жыл бұрын

You didn't watch WWF too?

@erniesimms7425

4 жыл бұрын

@@maceomillions2192 man bro my momz thought it was too much 😂

@erniesimms7425

4 жыл бұрын

3rd of 4 boys...and we did Good Times at 11pm and 227 at 11:30.

@RobertPaceII

4 жыл бұрын

I feel you. I was more of a Sosa guy because we got WGN so we got all the Cubs games. I had both the black and white and red and black NWO t-shirts. Loved it. It was all about the NWO, D-X, The Rock and Stone Cold brotha.

@steroidsR4losers

Жыл бұрын

We see how FAKE these STEROID users REALLY are when they finally can't take their STEROIDS because they got ARRESTED/in PRISON or the doctors tell them to come off because of health PROBLEMS...there goes those FAKE STEROID muscles they been HIDING behind! ROIDERS are FAKES! Stay natural buddy!

98 was the best. Miss it. Don't care if they took PEDs. It's was enjoyable to watch

@JackRule16

4 жыл бұрын

Just unfair to the players who didn't cheat

baseball was unfair to them, baseball was floundering as it is now and those guys brought it back

@maceomillions2192

4 жыл бұрын

Factsss

@MrWowza2

4 жыл бұрын

What about them stealing Barry bonds place as one of the greatest baseball players we've ever seen

@paraisoinformativo

4 жыл бұрын

aj little they didn’t steal nothing. Have you heard the reason (or rumors) as to why Barry allegedly took steroids? Barry thought Sosa and McGwire were inferior players compared to him and when he saw that nobody paid attention when he became the first man ever to join the 400-400 club during the same 98 season he came back in 99 looking a bit different. And of course you know what happened after that from 2000 to 2004. If anything Barry took both of them right out of the record books and placed himself and all allegedly out of jealousy.

@soarinskies1105

2 жыл бұрын

I highly doubt you could count baseball as floundering right now.

@soarinskies1105

2 жыл бұрын

@@paraisoinformativo except he didn’t take steroids he took HGH which is why his head and feet magically got significantly bigger over a few years despite being a full grown adult.

SVP and Costas. Two men who genuinely LOVE sports.

svp has some of the best interviews. incredible questions and answers from both sides

In an era where steroids were not against the rules, where nearly every player including pitchers were linked in some way to them, where MLB - including sportscasters like Costas - knowingly profited off of its use, I think the sanctimony is the WORST thing. People taking steroids facing people taking steroids seems like a level playing field.

@MM33003

4 жыл бұрын

PEDs were against the rules at the time, but they never tested for them. And you’re acting like every player took steroids, only about 5% of players were mentioned in the Mitchell Report. McGwire and Sosa were indeed frauds.

@arielarguello448

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Minin that was towards the end of the steroid era the 90s and very early 2000s would’ve had a way higher number

@MrGarysugarman

3 жыл бұрын

@@MM33003 Yep. And there's more to the game than who's playing at any one time. The game's history is what this was about.

@soarinskies1105

2 жыл бұрын

Trust me pitchers using foreign substances on the ball is waaaaayyy more effective than using steroids. Steroids can’t improve your spin rate by that much, but foreign substances can.

Probably the best baseball season of all time 💪🏼really saves the game!

They got more excuses for McGwire then McGwire

@user-mv7kh5sv9z

4 жыл бұрын

That would apply to both. Sammy Sosa is white now.

@AV57

3 жыл бұрын

@GreaterGood510, I’d just like to point out that Griffey hit 112 home runs between ‘97-‘98. You’ve got the perfect excuse to target a black guy and ruin his reputation, yet the media chose to focus all their attention on McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds.

They need a 30 for 30 about why Sammy Sosa is white now.

@planbee9915

4 жыл бұрын

D Skinner for real thou

@bigbraz

4 жыл бұрын

Pink. He's pink.

@theocratickingdom30

4 жыл бұрын

Big deal. To each his own.

@dskinner8757

4 жыл бұрын

@AngelTheFiend 😂😂😂

@adamdorgant9454

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention Sosa was Suspended in 2003 for using a corked bat, and in 2005 during the Congressional hearing on Steroids use in Baseball, he acts like he doesn’t understand English, he had to have his Lawyer read his opening statement for him!!!

Like it or not they SAVED MLB

MLB looked the other way, because baseball needed fans to come back. Just looking at them, it was obvious they were on the Juice.

@billnye7745

4 жыл бұрын

Looking back now you can say it’s obvious, but at that time the vast majority of people didn’t think anything of it.

being a kid .. didn't everyone know they were roided up to the gills

It was fun even in Mexico they were on the news I was on vacation and would follow it down there. Came back to baseball that season after 94

Makes it even more remarkable that Roger Maris has the most unjuiced homeruns of all time still to this day. I think he deserves to be in the hall before these guys do.

Im not for roids but i still have great memories of that era where guys like greg vaughn hit 50 hr and people yawn

@AV57

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t recall anyone yawning when Greg Vaughn stepped in.

this doc was exactly like 1998. Totally bogus. So great job

Steroids don’t help hand eye coordination, it’s god given talent and skill, you gotta be able to hit the ball before it actually goes out of the park

@selfishstockton6123

4 жыл бұрын

Are you speaking from your experience and your many years of taking PEDS? Stfu

@brianhalligan9268

4 жыл бұрын

which is one of the reasons the whole steroids thing is so bad in the long term. pretty much all of big name steroid guys had HOF level skill already they didn't need to do steroids to be great. Now my opinion all these steroid guys should probably just go in the Hall because that era is important and the Hall is supposed to show the history of the game good and bad but also give increased credit to those from that period who had HOF careers and where total clean not acknowledging that success in that way is a disservice.

@MM33003

4 жыл бұрын

No, but it helps with bat speed. Quicker bat speed means more time to pick up the baseball.

They should have Barry Bonds in this same interview

As a whole 98 was one of the best summers. And this was a major part of it. Steroids or not I will never forget the feeling of this magical time.

I live on the east coast, so I didn't get to see him as much as I would have liked but my respect and admiration for Ken Griffey Jr. grows each time I see or hear the names Sosa or McGwire. Jr should have been the face of MLB because he was that dayum good and if not for injuries, he would be the home run king. Bonds? He threw away a Hall of Fame career clout chasing two cats who weren't even in his zip code as far as talent is concerned and he's more of a tragedy because it was pretty much all self-inflicted.

1998 was the funnest baseball season in my life. Even now when I see the picture of Sammy and Mark standing together I smile. And don't forget, the Cubs made the playoffs that year!!!

Best season I ever saw! It was awesome

Bob Costas considers their records "inauthentic", what about all the records during the amphetamine era?

@ryanfagan8503

2 жыл бұрын

Christ. They still are

All the players takes steroids. Who cares at this point. It's a contact-less sport.

@gnastyg7798

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Let them go try and hit a 99 mph FaSTBALL

All the more reason for Roger Maris to be posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown! I have heard all the arguments and right now baseball needs it and so does the press!

These guys got used by baseball. Coming out of the strike, baseballs popularity was at an all time low. These 2 guys literally saved baseball. MLB knew what was up. They should be ashamed of themselves.

I hope Mark gave that kid something for bringing the home run ball back to him.

How do you know he was clean as a rookie?

Everyone turned a blind eye to the obvious and enjoyed it. It’s a shame that these guys are being shunned now.

How many players were on steroids at the time? How many players slid through that time and didn't get caught? Until we can know that, it is really hard for me to say these guys don't belong in the HOF.

Worst part is they lied. Roger maris, babe Ruth or hank Aaron didn’t need performance enhancing drugs.

@adamdorgant9454

Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed!!!!

Who is the Dark Skinned guy with Sosa on his jersey??

Hank Aaron gets death threats,and Roger Maris' hair is falling out! Shameful! 755 and 61 still stand.

@adamdorgant9454

3 жыл бұрын

burkley Barthel Agreed!!!

If McGwire didn't take steroids in 1998 & 1999 and hits 26 homers in each year he would have gotten to 500 homers. Would have been a sure fire Hall of Fame vote.

They're all on steroids!!!!

@heelfan50

4 жыл бұрын

Ricardo Masvidal not all on roids

There was a lot of star power in this era... maybe I’m too casual of a fan now, but there is no star power in today’s game... cant think of the last time I saw a baseball player in a national commercial

Baseball threw Sammy and Mark under the bus. MLB had to know what was happening in 1998 was a fraud, yet nobody was willing to step up and say anything so long as the ratings were good and the turnstiles kept moving. It was great business, but now baseball has turned its back on these two.

@userloco99

8 ай бұрын

Agree 100%

I am still confused all these years later. What exactly did Mark do wrong? I know that steroids were made illegal in baseball in 1991 but Androstenedione was not illegal at that time in Major League Baseball.

Then shut up about berry bc sf in 01 was the best feeling

The fault lies in trying to compare eras. For so many reasons it cannot be done.

That baseball commissioner is the one to blame for all thay steroids drama!....theres been worst things in sports and other commissioners been able to handle things....they should have Canseco play baseball and well never let thay steroid list out and clean that mess

The home run race is what got me into watching baseball. Steroids or not it was entertaining. The way I looked at it everyone was using. Every night was like the homer in derby it was great... I’m just a casual fan of course, so I’m sure some of the hardcore fans probably didn’t like it.

What exactly did Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa do wrong? Steroids were not against the rules in 1998. They weren't illegal until 2004. Everyone wants to believe baseball accomplishments can be measured in a vacuum, but each generation has different advantages above the previous generations. Its the truth. Its sad we can't just appreciate the greatness of players like McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, etc. They saved the game.

Sure they bulked up but Mac was already big and strong. I mean 49 Homers as a rookie plus P.E.D.'s dont affect hand eye coordination..and he missed a few weeks that rookie season. He would of broken the Maris' record eventually anyway. Now Bonds and Sosa on the other hand I dont think so

That 30 for 30 was so disappointing. It felt like this documentary was made a month after the 98 season was done. They needed to go into depth about the steroid era. We needed perspective from other guys in those club houses to really understand what those days were like. It just felt way to bland of a documentary.

It was great to watch but it's not the same because it wasn't clean of drugs...

These guys are debating 2 cheaters that robbed other players. That robbed all of the fans. These guys were betting for Me Gwire. He was a fony, a cheater, and a discrase to baseball. Why can't you appreciate the honest players, why even talk about cheaters that are humiliating.

I think my RTTS player might be taking steroids cause he just hit 81 homeruns last season.

I enjoy Michael J. Fox's appearances on SVP....

so why is it ok for Sosa and MacGwire to have used steroids to beef up their stats, but Pete Rose played they game the RIGHT way and yet he’s banned for life.

I See Sosa & Mcgwire where's Barry Bonds ?

@baotheboss

4 жыл бұрын

Barry is in 2001 together Sosa again

GREATEST TIME OR MOMENT IN BASEBALL PERIOD. use of steroids still consists of hitting the ball. Remember that. Because there have been players who took PEDs that were unsuccessful

Costas always obsessed tearing others down

@seattleite6631

4 жыл бұрын

He calls it how it is

@adamdorgant9454

Жыл бұрын

You’re right about that!!!

Mark took his shot and ran with it...

Costas good commentator on sports.... But not on politics

i honestly thought sosa was clean but he got caught wit somethin in his bat bc it broke? could be a rumor

@adamdorgant9454

Жыл бұрын

But in 2009, the New York Times reported that Sosa tested positive for PEDs in 2003!!

Babe Ruth on steroids....80 HR

First thing I noticed was Bob Costa’s kitchen. That’s big time expensive stuff he has in there. Yes....sports business has been very very good to him too.

@seattleite6631

4 жыл бұрын

He's had a long career. Does it really look that extravagant?

Everyone knew what was going on and nobody cared. Baseball was hurting from the 94 strike and this is what brought baseball back. It wasn’t until Bonds broke the record that steroids became a problem. If Bonds didn’t break the record it probably never would of become an issue! Chicks dig the long ball but Bonds was a hated man by the press and it all went down hill from there

@adamdorgant9454

Жыл бұрын

True!!!

So tell me the difference between players back then using steroids and now baseballs being juiced to get hit more often out of the park?

It felt good so it's ok? ESPN is this yur message?

Wow ridiculous reasoning. These men were lying cheaters and these guys excuse it because it made them feel good. I'm sure all of the millionaires, who defraud the tax system, which could include these gents, feel good. Should we feel good for them. These guys need to have any accolades stripped from them for being liars and cheaters.

Anybody else smell beef between them? Definitely a bit more stale than usual 😂

What's going to save the game this time, when there is no baseball this year?

Baseball was DEAD after that strike... Baseball KNEW these guys was juicing. Baseball got back on the map because of THE HOME RUN RACE.

No wonder Vince McMahon wanted to slap this guy.

@UnHolyWible

4 жыл бұрын

YOU WANNA LET ME FINISH HERE FOR A SECOND PAL? SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND LET ME ANSWER THE QUESTION.

So all the players that was juicing why didn't more of them hit 60 plus homeruns

They saved and ruined baseball forever I have no sympathy for either of them

@adamdorgant9454

Жыл бұрын

And to this day, Neither one of them have been Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame!!!

Makes me wonder what other drugs they were on. Probably coke

Mark was huge but no wear near what I was.

I am not sure McGwire ever had a clean MLB at bat. Steroids were around in the mid 80s. Just like ARod, Palmeiro, and Canseco...never clean. Or Bonds once he started needing bigger hats. Fans knew this stuff back in the late 80s. But it didn't get ludicrous until the mid 90s when suddenly Brady Anderson hits 52 HR, 10 bandbox stadiums were built, and all perspective of balance in the game was gone. Chicks dig the longball. MLB was living in a fools' paradise in 1998.

Apparently steroids didn't loom at all over the race since the documentary flat out ignores it the entire time (besides a 10 second mention like 1hr 45 min in)

@tsw9824

4 жыл бұрын

This was the only year steroids were used? These were the only players using steroids?

@laner1172

4 жыл бұрын

@@tsw9824 Was Ken Griffey Jr using steroids??

How about Barry Bonds, he is the all time leader in cheating . Bob talk a good game but never talks about Bonds.

I say bring PED's back!!!!!

Who really cares? I would’ve watched either way...whether they did or didn’t take steroids and so would the majority of other people.

I don’t care they took steroids I don’t think I cared then... it’s all relative. The majority of MLB was taking steroids anyway. Also, to hit a baseball is the hardest thing to do in baseball. It’s still awesome they hit all those home runs. I couldn’t get a single bunt in MLB. It was exciting time!!! That’s how I will remember it.

Why don't these broadcasters just get old? No one cares what they look just what they sound like. Look at Jack Buck.

Everybody was on steroids and it was good for the game 🤷🏾‍♂️ hall of farmers in my book

For some reason, I can’t stand Bob Costas.

@dvilleonthemap9210

4 жыл бұрын

Probably jealous of his kitchen. I know I am lol

So they were the only one taking steroids and you just gonna pick on them because they were more talented at the moment it was available and used by many other players I would say 70 percent used and still do but there’s no way you can take the talent and the joy and we fans of the game experience because of them that’s selfish and and shameful. Long life Sammy 30-30 x2 and and only 3 x 60 HR’s player ever!

We didnt care... we all knew even as a 18 year old teen I knew but we still watched with awe and felt magic steroids or not

What part of MLB AND MLBPA ALLOWED THEM TO HAVE STEROIDS!!!! They should not be chastized about ANY of their accomplishment that season or in their careers. Get on baseball, it's on them.

The commisioner is as much to blame for the steroid era...and yet he still made it to the HALL OF FAME. 😮

'roid race...'roids don't make you a home run hitter. It may give you more distance. There is no way to compare the record. Babe hit 60 homers with 8 teams in the American league, in 154 games.

As a high schooler late 80’s players were juicing...after the strike n 94 MLB was in trouble wit the fans...everybody knew...MLB knew...once the government stepped in MLB left the players hanging...Mitchell report was “supposed” too b confidential but we see how that played out...guys who played in that era should b n the HOF...baseball was America’s past time but has the most controversy attached too it over its existence...point in case...wats going on now...they aren’t arguing over safety issues about COVID-19 it’s about money 💰🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

Lebron takes PEDS so whats the issue?

All sports are staged. It wasn't just the steroids. I believe the two knew what the pitches were from the pitcher.

Giants Barry Bonds as well !

Bob has a much nicer kitchen than Big Cat. Face!