for those of you saying this stuff...Gossage was well known for calling out his teammates, opponents everyone that he felt showed opponents up. He's not being inconsistent. He's just too stupid to realize that stuff happened then, the reach of the highlights are just so much greater and so much more instant now.
Did you hear his Tim and Sid interview? He's just saying what he and most of his generation were taught (with his dislike for the catcher rule change and the second base slide). This doesn't excuse it of course as I was also taught this stuff...I just am smart enough to understand that the changes are for the better.