Chris Coste News

Just call him the 38-year-old television rookie. Popular former Phillies backup catcher Chris Coste has been hired by Comcast SportsNet to provide pregame and postgame analysis for nine or 10 games a month this season.

In a 2008, Sam Alipour refused to allow an interview with Chris Coste to end until the Phillies backup catcher admitted his story was a lot like Rocky so that ESPN would be able to use the awesome sports/movie parallel they came up with.

He hasn't retired, but former Phillie Chris Coste will begin appearing on television as a Phillies analyst according to The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead . Coste, 38, still hopes to play professional baseball but the free agent catcher is 10 months removed from Tommy Johns surgery, a procedure that usually requires a full year of recovery.