On the fateful day Dino Costa (above) was shitcanned from Sirius/XM last October —less than a month after being demoted from the satellite broadcaster’s Mad Dog Radio channel to the little-heard Sports Zone —- the Yonkers Cowboy reached out to yours truly and offered to answer questions concerning his dismissal. Since it isn’t every day that we get to interview oft-traveled, self-obsessed radio hosts who consider WorldNetDaily a viable news source, I sent Mr. Costa a series of not-jokey-at-all inquiries about the nature of his exit.
Despite promising he’d reply in a few days, I’ve yet to hear from him since. It’s a shame, given that he would’ve had the opportunity to provide much more of his side of the story (Sirius/XM aren’t talking) than he was afforded by the likes of Ed Sherman or Bob Raissman, but that’s Dino’s call. He’s not obliged to submit to an interview — even one that he volunteered for.
Still, there might be a handful of you curious what the self-appointed savior of sports radio has been up to since getting fired. There’s been the requisite multiple changes in twitter accounts/handles, a website shut down due to non-payment of a server bill, disparaging remarks aimed at the unfortunate sap who’s been filming a Dino documentary, a succession of YouTube videos shot from driver’s seat of Dino’s truck (including one while he’s speeding down a Wyoming highway), and of course, the sort of pithy social commentary you’ve come to expect.
On Thursday, Costa tweeted to former Vikings P / homophobia whistle-blower Chris Kluwe, “Dude can you please go and do something else? Nobody gives a shit about your whining…you’re old news, go feed some pigeons.” Following this with the claim, “I’m fed up with the gay agenda being forced down my throat,” Costa went on to write, “Kluwe is a piece of dung…I’d like the opportunity to kick his pansy ass.” You’d have to figure a 33 year old, highly conditioned professional athlete (OK, a jobless punter) is paralyzed with fear after being threatened by a middle aged blowhard whose style/fitness guru would appear to be late-period Jim Belushi.
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Hey, this isn’t Dino on the pic! He’d NEVER wear pink, I know this much… :O
And your article doesn’t say WHERE can he be heard now (if anywhere at all?). I’m a former SXM subscriber who, as it turns out, will certainly NOT re-sign up with them. I’ll just let my 3 or 4 radios rot in my attic… :/
At present, he can’t be heard anywhere (YouTube videos shot in his truck excepted). Dino promises an April, 2014 for a subscription service/podcast/portal thing and unlike any number of other initiatives touted by the Yonkers Cowboy (the multiple twitter feeds, the cup of coffee at Sirius/XM 92, the documentary whose filmmakers are currently accusing Dino of “slander”, the alleged “iDino” project for which left a Devils blogger holding the bag, his prior website, DOA due to non-payment) I’m certain it’s gonna be a huge success.
And by “huge success”, I mean his mysterious Boston benefactor is very likely to be the next co-conspirator who didn’t measure up to Costa’s exacting standards.
I have to give you credit for being a man of your word. Despite continuing to badmouth and ridicule Costa, this entry probably gives him more publicity than he has received in a while. I have no doubt you will/would have posted the reason for his termination, from his perspective of course, had he completed the interview. I have a feeling he’s not that reliable, so it could be a long wait…
yeah, as far as I’m concerned, Dino’s window of opportunity to explain what happened at Sirius-XM has long since closed. He approached CSTB offering answer questions — his participation was most certainly not solicited.
Dino seems very proud that Bob Raissman and Richard Deitsch acknowledged his dismissal, but it was hardly a top story for either of them. That the MSM could barely bother to mention Costa’s firing doesn’t strike me as unusual or surprising, by the way, but it might illustrate some of the problems Dino and his allegedly-not-imaginary financial backers might face in launching a subscription service. Dino must be the only guy on earth who thinks a protected twitter feed and an unpaid web server bill are the best ways to promote and market something that apparently needed anywhere between $200,000 and a half million in start up costs (depending on which version of Dino is doing the talking).