Jul
10
2009
The Long Road to Houston – A Coste Tribute
Posted by Tug Haines at 10:45 pm ET
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I’m not shedding any tears, mind you. As a player, I kind of felt he was a drag. Nothing personal, you see. In fact, his was one of the happier stories in baseball’s long history of heartbreak and skulduggery.
Yeah, that’s right, I said it: a happy story.
If you leave out the end of that one chapter where he loses his backup backstop job to Paul Bako.
It sucks that he has to leave a championship-caliber team for an Ed Wade-run clusterfuck, and yes, it sucks that Coste has to uproot his family and move to Texas (fucking Texas). But has anyone in the Phillies front office considered Shane’s feelings? They’re breaking up a bromance for the ages, for chrissakes:
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July 10th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
That was beautiful, man. Godspeed, Chris Coste. Godspeed.
July 10th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
does this mean we lou marson finally gets the back-up spot? i hope so.
July 10th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
maaaan i’ll miss him…but i hope Marson comes up!
July 11th, 2009 at 12:17 am
Wowww i forgot that Shane Victorino had hair at one point
July 11th, 2009 at 2:47 am
yea that mini fro caught me off guard
July 11th, 2009 at 3:11 am
holy shit, is that Tiger Woods with Chris Coste in the picture on the right?!!
July 11th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Very. Nicely. Done.
The next scene is where Mr. McGee, now a Houston scout after an unsuccessful attempt at blackmailing his editor at the newspaper, stops to pick Coste up and Coste tells him ominously, “Don’t make me a starter, Mr. McGee…you wouldn’t like me as a starter.”
July 11th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
hahahaha
July 11th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
ill miss coste, uhh….. so sad to c him go….. nuts oh well maybe we can get marson up here soon….
July 16th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Meech, that really was the last home run that Coste would ever hit as a Phillie…and you dropped it!