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Is Bob Costas doing anything specific to inspire these fantastic tweets or is he simply being his usual pompous and pontificating self?

Either way, I cannot get enough of these (updated, with more in comments):

BOB COSTAS: While it may seem like a joyous night for fans on the banks of Lake Erie, the unfortunate truth remains: it is, indeed, possible that the Zodiac Killer—who has yet to be officially caught—could be among the Cleveland fans
RON DARLING: I think he held his swing there

bob costas: "we're here in cleveland, where the slight autumn chill in the air is a bleak reminder of the chilling fact that each day we are all spiraling towards the unavoidable conclusion we call death"
ron darling: "i think he goes fastball here"

COSTAS: The joys of going to a baseball game, eating a hot dog, seeing your favorite players are all erased when you remember we are all doomed to infinite darkness once our unfulfilling lives are mercifully ended by the universe
DARLING: 2-2 count, he has to be thinking cutter

Bob Costas- "On what is a beautiful evening for baseball, it is hard to ignore the fact that one day we will all take our last breath on this earth. Then every record of our existence will vanish into the vast expanse of our universe."
Ron Darling- "Corner infielders playing in"

Bob Costas: If you're watching this muted, you're absorbing the human experience with your own eyes, as the raucous cheers appear only as silent screams into the void of our own existence. In the end, as the beginning, is the timeless nothing.
Darling: missed with the curve

Bob Costas: Looking ahead, Gerrit Cole is under contract for a long time in New York and Game 3 of the 2027 ALDS could be in Toronto & it appears Cole's passport is set to expire in 2026 so have to wonder what Cashman might do about that
Ron Darling: Catcher is setting up inside

Bob Costas: The bat is splintered, reminding us of the collapsing ecosystem in the Amazon. Countless trees ripped from the Earth, unable to supply oxygen to this suffocating planet.
Ron Darling: He was a bit early on that curveball.

Costas: We welcome you back to the Cathedral of Baseball, Yankee Stadium, nestled so perfectly here in the Bronx as if it were carved into the topography of New York eons ago; a presence as inexorable within the five boroughs as a bagel with a shmear
Ron Darling: Goose on field

BOB COSTAS: Should this series go five, Gerrit Cole would start Game 3 of the ALCS. He couldn't pitch on only three days' rest, which was the custom of the past. Perhaps players were of a heartier stock. Perhaps America was of a heartier stock.
RON DARLING: Pitch looked outside

No one:
Bob Costas: "Of course, shadows are named for John Shadow, who once defecated in his pants when he espied an obsidian silhouette that appeared to follow him wherever he went. As the first man to notice this, he of course named the phenomenon eponymously."

Bob Costas: and the Yankees have given up the lead, just like i gave up my job with NBC. We are all reminded every day we are all just cogs in the capitalist machine we call the US of A
Ron Darling: good eye by Judge

Costas: As the moon rises higher on this autumnal night we reflect on all of our past mistakes, especially those made by minorities and females. But alas, we can only hope they are still accepted into the great beyond.
Darling: I’d expect a breaking ball here.

Bob Costas: Another inning, but nothing happens. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked onto days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
Ron Darling: And that’s another 123 inning for Cole.

Bob Costas: It's that time of year, when the first leaf of autumn falls forlornly on the barren ground below, and the air is filled with the promise of crispness and color.
Ron Darling: Cole's cutter is really working for him tonight

Bob Costas: Here we are at Progressive Field! This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger-
Ron Darling: And that’s ball one

bob costas: "we're here in cleveland, all breathing the same air, a reminder that each breath brings us closer to death; the only guarantee of this bastard called life."
ron darling: "umpire calls time."

Bob Costas: We're in Cleveland, just a 30 minute drive from where Jeffrey Dahmer grew up and committed his first murder, and on these chill autumn days one can still feel that malevolence hanging over this sold out crowd
Ron Darling: Yanks looking for a double play ball here

bob costas: "as we sit here and watch game 4, you can't help but wonder: who lives in a pineapple under the sea? absorbant and yellow and porous is he. if nautical nonsense be something you wish, then drop on the deck and flop like a fish"
ron darling: "shift is on"

Bob Costas: "Welcome back to the concrete jungle for the third time this series. We've got skies of blue and clouds of white. Bright blessed day transitioning to the dark sacred night. And I have to think to myself, what a wonderful world"
Ron Darling: "curveball just outside"

Bob Costas: The bat is splintered, reminding us of the collapsing ecosystem in the Amazon. Countless trees ripped from the Earth, unable to supply oxygen to this suffocating planet.
Ron Darling: He was a bit early on that curveball.

*shows baby on screen*
Bob Costas: "The mind still developing, she does not know all her life leads to the inevitable arrival of death"
*batter looks at strike 3*
Bob Costas: "Until we too are seated at the Right Hand"
Ron Darling: "Went back to the cutter on 2-2"

BOB COSTAS: "You know, I was once helping the great Vin Scully shop for paint at Lowe's. He settled on a gallon of Agreeable Gray for his home office, and I was just thinking to myself, 'Is there anyone more agreeable than V...'"
RON DARLING: "Straw with a fly to right."

COSTAS: But you also have to consider that Babe Ruth was playing during an era where America was still recovering from the Great Depression, when people had to use cinnamon in hamburger patties to mask the taste of spoiled meat
DARLING: Cabrera is playing Straw surprisingly deep

Costas: "Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year's gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake we know it's not to be. That for the rest of our sad, wretched, pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably. Happy birthday? No such thing."
Darling: "Rizzo calls time."

BOB COSTAS: Speaking of Judge, I can't help be reminded of the scandal involving the judges during the pairs' figure skating competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics. Canada, like Tristan McKenzie, thought they had done enough to win, but...
RON DARLING: Kwan takes one low.

COSTAS: And of course the Elephant Man's bones remain on display, separated from the rest of his body which lays in an unmarked grave in England. A cruel reminder that spectacle will always overrule the tenets of basic human decency
DARLING: Stanton chases a slider low and away

BOB COSTAS: "Gimenez with a great year at second base this year. Which reminds me, Jeff Kent is in the crowd tonight... Kent, a great second baseman who had nothing to do with the tragedy at Kent State in 1970."
RON DARLING: "Higashioka fouls one off."

Costas: "The sad reality is that, while watching your favorite baseball team win in October is thrilling, that feeling is fleeting. We are soon to have sunset at 4pm and freezing temps and blizzards across the eastern seaboard"
Darling: "Judge is finally heating up at the plate"

BOB COSTAS: History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
RON DARLING: they should pinch hit here

COSTAS: While Cleveland fans may be celebrating now, it is impossible to ignore that statistically 14% of this crowd will die due to opioid addiction thanks to the evil pharmaceutical industry.
DARLING: Short pop up to the infield and that'll take us to the 3rd.

Costas: Cleveland fans are elated right now, but soon enough, the fog of the Postseason will clear and all 36,000+ paid attendees will face the harsh reality that they will never be truly happy and will inevitably die and burden their children with their outstanding debts
Darling: Austin Hedges is one tough cookie behind home plate

COSTAS: And it is, perhaps, worth noting. After all the years of planned obsolescence within the Apple corporation, a rather jaded generation has emerged. Desperately seeking the instant gratification they crave—
DARLING: that one bounces in front of the plate.

Costas: Ron did u know, the Yankees Kiner-Falefa was born in Hawaii? Incidentally I know Tom Selleck, who in the 80’s played Magnum P.I., a private investigator in Hawaii. That man loved bourbon and Chinese checkers.
Ron: Some action in the bullpen…

COSTAS: Most fans know the eephus pitch, the arcing slow ball popularized in the '40s by Rip Sewell. Lesser known is Sewell's involvement in developing an undetectable poison that he used to paralyze several former teammates.
DARLING: Good take on a borderline pitch by Ramirez.

COSTAS: The weather has shifted from the balmy days of early September to the crisper, cooler days of mid-October. Reminds me of the 1987 World Series where the Cardinals took game 3 at home to cut the series to 2-1 in favor of the Twins.
DARLING: Ramirez takes a slider low.

BOB COSTAS: Cleveland is tied 1-1. If you think this team has hope let me tell you something. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. I mean Mexico is way the hell down there and you're in here and that's the way it is."
RON DARLING: He went back to the cutter.

COSTAS: And who could forget Earl Averill hitting 31 homers for Cleveland in 1934, as the city was gripped in terror by the still unsolved Torso Murders
DARLING: 2-2 here, I’d look for a curveball in the dirt

COSTAS: This game is a beautiful reminder that one day, the sun will explode and end all life as we know it
DARLING: Looks like Francona is going to the bullpen.

BOB COSTAS: "The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland. The Guardians compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. Since 1994, they have played at Progressive Field. Since their establishment as a Major League franchise in 1901, the team has won 11 Central division titles, six American League pennants, and two World Series championships (in 1920 and 1948). The team's World Series championship drought since 1948 is the longest active among all 30 current Major League teams.[1] The team's name references the Guardians of Traffic, eight monolithic 1932 Art Deco sculptures by Henry Hering on the city's Hope Memorial Bridge, which is adjacent to Progressive Field.[2][3] The team's mascot is named "Slider."[4] The team's spring training facility is at Goodyear Ballpark in Goodyear, Arizona.[5]"
RON DARLING: "Two down for Hicks."

Does Bob Costas ever shut the fuck up?

Bob Costas if this game goes into extras: "… he eats eggs for breakfast on Thursdays… two yolks, four whites… sunny side up… rye toast… a little burnt bc that's how his dad used to eat it… then comes the juice… orange… no pulp… he likes his ketchup room temperature…"

Bob Costas be like: "Just 2 years ago he was cleaning up a junkie's shit off a McDonald's washroom wall. Now he is serving Beer at Yankee Stadium for game 1 of the ALDS. Truly a heroic story of adversity."

I now believe that Bob Costas thinks he's the only person with a functioning memory and it's his job to keep all of human history alive through oral tradition

Holy shit Bob Costas I feel like I'm listening to a Ken Burns documentary. Call the fucking game, I don't care about Aaron Boone's family tree and the 1948 Cleveland Indians.

Bob Costas is the human version of a meeting that should’ve been an e-mail

If Bob Costas was forced to take a shot every time he used the racist former name he'd be dead of alcohol poisoning after a couple of innings, and then Ron Darling could call the game himself.

bob costas announced the peña homer during the yankee game as if he had just found out the second tower got hit

I'm wondering what Ron Darling is doing during Costas' 25-minute soliloquies. Catching up on some light reading maybe?

Bob Costas: "The crisp nature of the air is a prescient indicator of how daunting a ball will travel with the crack of a bat."

It's been painful listing to him call these games. He cares more about lecturing you about the game than actually doing PBP. When he does PBP he treats it like a regular season game in June.

It's unbelievable actually. Baseball fans know all this stuff already, when you sit for 3 hours a clip every day for months and years, you hear all the human interest stuff, he talks down to ppl like they have never seen a baseball game before.

From yesterday:
[base hit]
Costas: "As Mel Allen might say: how about that?"
Fucking broke me.

...and that is how "hanging Chad" entered the American lexicon, Ron. Judge takes ball two.

My favorite part was him calling out Cabrera for celebrating his HR but totally giving Harrison Bader a pass for pimping his. Oh, I'm sure it's just a veteran thing, Bob. I'm sure of it.

I wasn't sure it got any worse than Joe Buck but Bob Costas sure is making a strong case for himself this post season! 🙄

I'm glad he told of the history of a bridge for a solid five minutes there in the third.

Is Darling even still there?

I can't unhear the Bob Costas twitter meme now with every single thing he says

"If and underline if several times Cleveland gets out of here with a win"- Bob Costas, Yankee fan

For real, is Bob Costas a minority owner of the Yankees? 🤔

Bob Costas when the Yankees are up.
Aaron Judge adopted an abandoned litter of kittens.
Bob Costas when the Guardians are up. (who had more hits in both games BTW) 
"pin stripes are slimming."

*Guardians beat the Yankees with a walkoff hit from Oscar Gonzalez*
Bob Costas: The Yankees injuries have been brutal and despite this they nearly won.

Bob Costas: "It needs to be stressed that Houston will need to open the roof due to the sheer size of Aaron Judge. The only question becomes will the Yankees sweep or will Houston just forfeit in fear?"
Ron Darling: "Bob, Cleveland just eliminated the Yankees."