Keith Olbermann Has a Blog

A long, long time ago when I was a teenager ESPN was actually a network that was dedicated to showing sports. The showcase of the network was SportsCenter, which every day showed highlights from every single game played in the country, without any interruptions from Coors Light or their cold, hard previously scripted opinions. It was during these halycon days of ESPN that the world was introduced to the duo of Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann.

Eventually Olbermann would leave the network, instead choosing to spend his time talking about politics on MSNBC, but you knew that much like the mafia, just when he thought he was out, the sports would pull Olbermann back in. It all started with his work on NBC's Sunday Night Football, and now Olbermann has taken the next logical step in his return to the welcoming arms of the sporting world. He's become a baseball blogger.

Olbermann has started his own blog as a part of MLB.com's MLBlogs network, called Baseball Nerd, and there he'll be sharing his opinions about the game we all love. In his first entry on the blog we learn about Owen Wilson's day learning to be a baseball player, his first time seeing a triple play, and how the wrong Martinez returned to the Dodgers on Sunday.

That'd be Ramon Martinez, who celebrated his 41st birthday yesterday by sitting in the dugout of the team for which he won 123 games in the eleven seasons ending in 1998. The former 20-game winner - who set the land-speed record for going from being "The Martinez," to "He's Pedro's Brother" - looked not much heavier than the 165 at which he pitched for the Dodgers' last champions. He knew nothing of his brother's chances, silently underscoring the mumbles of the spring: that Pedro's WBC performance did not resonate, and with his killer fastball down to 90, is unlikely to find a home this year - or at least not a prominent one.

No word on whether or not Olbermann plans on starting a Worst Person in MLB feature on the sight, but I'm pretty sure we can expect a 10,000 word screed on how Bill O'Reilly and Alex Rodriguez are destroying the United States any day now.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-24-2009 @ 8:30PM

TheHulk said...

Who Care what this D Bag thinks about anything...

He should have called his blog "Baseball A Hole"

4-15-2009 @ 1:08PM

Warren Langer said...

Dear Keith:

Fond as I am of you, baseball in general and Obama I am shocked that you haven't delivered one word in the past few years on Wally Ballou.

It is bad enough that a daughters father-in-law is a retired pediatrician from Putney, VT who has never heard of Wally.

This, however, is a bit too much. Frankly I haven't heard or read any news of the Toast Franchise in the Wall Street Journal or the NYT.

What's going on here?

warren langer

5-21-2009 @ 2:52PM

Frank said...

Dear Keith,

I never miss your show - Countdown. I love your honesty. I am always please to see a talk show where people are willing to be honest about the facts instead of spinning the truth.

I am a Retired Navy Afro-American who loves this Country and i am ashame to still see the hatred that is galvanize by the Right even in 2009. We need people like you who are willing to call out the psychos on the Right who i think are the real terrorist in this Country. These people really scare me.

When i hear people like Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Shawn Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Lou Dobbs, i feel i am listening to the Klan back in the sixties. The hatred is the same. Now it is squarely directed at this Black President. The racism is so obvious you don't have to be black to realize it. The Right hates this black President and they want the whole world and America to know it. God Help us!!! Please countinue to call these nut cases out. They were able to silence Dr. King, President Kennedy, Megar Evers and Malcom X, but these people are allowed to continue openly with there hatred because they want to call it free speech. I see a revolution coming and it is not going to be pretty for the Right.

God bless and protect you Keith.

5-24-2009 @ 1:12PM

Jjb333 said...

I watch Keith twice most nights, so many commercials and the remote cause me to miss critical parts, I like his approach- but- trivializing, name calling (psycho-talk) opposing view points, especially in matters of pure opinion has a "lowering of all boats" effect on the intellectual caliber of the debate.

For my money: Fareed Zakaria is the best and brightest talking head out there.

4-19-2009 @ 6:24PM

ertlamm said...

I posted this on the Smirking Chimp today

This is wrong, wrong, wrong.

As much as I really want to get on Obamamine and enjoy the feeling(the contact high)...this issue of prosecuting illegal torture is preventing me. Maybe he hasn't felt enough personal pain to understand this issue. He would crumble like a black widow sprayed with Raid®…if he had to feel what many of us Americans have had to experience for decades on end….who have only been tortured spiritually. When I first saw Obama on Leno...during his campaign… I commented that the last thing that we need is another snot nosed player. If you take his stance on both torture and on drugs...you see where we are evolving in terms of violence under his leadership. He is looking way too much like a clever user. If people want to die using drugs...let them, even if it is my own kids. Someday we are going to have to separate those who can and those who can't. I don’t. For that reason(we don't seem to be ready). All drug experiences are actually natural bodily chemical responses to what could be a natural progression of human realizations. What you feel and experience is not the drug…but your own natural bodily chemicals being released as a response to the drug. A response that can just as easily be obtained via a realization. My friends and family believe that Obama cut a deal behind the scenes about torture. Too bad for him if he did. That would really make him the snot nosed player that I have prayed he wouldn’t be. And does anyone actually believe that Obama has been clean during the past few years? If he hasn’t …why all of the laws? Why all of the people in prison? Is Obama a snot nosed player?

Submitted by ertlamm on April 19, 2009 - 5:23pm.
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6-09-2009 @ 9:41PM

kblack said...

Keith needs to stick to sports. I actually liked his commentary back in the day on ESPN. However, once I saw his idiotic political views on MSNBC my opinion of him changed completely. Keith, there is a reason why the o'Reilly factor is kicking your a%% in the ratings!