{"id":951,"date":"2007-06-18T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T20:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/06\/18\/for-what-its-worth\/"},"modified":"2009-05-30T09:43:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T14:43:19","slug":"for-what-its-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"For What Its Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

JB Doubtless writes<\/a> about Bob Costas:<\/p>\n

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Bob Costas Is A Pompous, Effete, East Coast WASP <\/strong><\/div>\n

Goes without saying right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, maybe and maybe not.<\/p>\n

I mean, I’m not sure that a sportscaster’s Christian denomination has been much of an issue at least since 1971, when Pete “The Papist” Pike – unsuccessful play-by-play announcer for the ABA’s Pittsburgh Condors on KDKA Radio – was accused of getting his color commentary directly from Rome.<\/p>\n

“WASP?”\u00a0 I don’t think I’ve seen someone described as a “WASP” outside of a MAD magazine or some neurotic Jewish comic or another’s routine since the 1970’s.<\/p>\n

But for what it’s worth, Costas was raised Catholic<\/a>, the child of Greek-Irish parents.<\/p>\n

So I guess he’d be a “Pompous Effete East Coast WIGC”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JB Doubtless writes about Bob Costas: Bob Costas Is A Pompous, Effete, East Coast WASP Goes without saying right? Well, maybe and maybe not. I mean, I’m not sure that a sportscaster’s Christian denomination has been much of an issue at least since 1971, when Pete “The Papist” Pike – unsuccessful play-by-play announcer for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}