It's Quiet. It's Too Quiet

Thanks for the great blog, Keith. As a son of the South who only recently discovered ten years ago that he was intrigued, fascinated and thrilled by baseball, and maintained healthy prejudices all that time against the Yankees for the huge amount of scratch the owner would throw, left and right (envy), and because the Yankees are Yankees (tradition going back to at least Harper's Ferry, if not before), and because my Dad back in the late 50's would sometimes go with a friend to Yankees games and sit as close as possible to the field mic which was feeding natural sound to the radio broadcast and they would literally wait for a Yankee to strike out or boot a ball and cheer like hell for the player - gushing support and faux fan love, absolutely counter to what would normally be groans, yells, and jeers. "... fly to center, Mantle's under it, ready to squeeze - HE DROPPED IT! Oh, bad luck - lost it in the lights I guess and - WOOOOO!!! WAY TO GO MICKEY!!! YEAH!!! THAT A WAY, BABY!!!" It took a full season of such random devilry before they wised up and my Dad and his friend were told they could not sit there anymore. So, with baggage like that I thought as if I could give a rat's *** about the Yankees but then there's the history and all which in of itself makes paying attention worthwhile and you're a good enough writer to keep it interesting.

well, KO, i figured you were out at the ballgames on friday, and countdown is a bore without you. so i stayed with the met game and wasnt disappointed. well, not disappointed but typically annoyed. this is the 3rd or 4th time they were ahead and would have blown it but for carlos d. of course the unlikely hero sheffield provided the real game-winning run, without that one, the walk off wouldnt have been one. so, they gotta strengthen pitching so the starter can go maybe until 7, and then, keep the hitting alive. other than that, its the same mets. they play like that ... its usually their signature - snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. sometimes, i just turn the game off after the 5th inning.
i havent gotten to citi yet, but it really looks lovely. so what if mr. met has an office. he didnt come to the door because he was on the phone, probably.
and bwaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa about pavano. the skankees suck. even the fans know that.
the yankees needed a new stadium because???????????? citi was necessary to replace ole shea, which might have collapsed under the weight of the 'you suck' section stomping. met fans are alive. yankee fans are just looking.
thanks KO for your commentary...hope to see ya monday on countdown.

i meant to say luis castillo. duh. carlos was on base, but without luis the game might have spun into endless innings......

One quick question- is our intrepid blogger wearing his Superbowl XLIII press credentials? And if so...uh...why? Besides the inherent awesomeness, that is.

Jeremy,

I was going to ask the same question. Why are you wearing the SuperBowl press pass? Also, any ideas who Mr. Met is ?

baseballintheattic.mlblogs.com

Seriously? You don't know who Mr. Met is? Have you actually ever watched a Mets game? Even a Red Sox fan living in AZ knows this piece of info about another team. Maybe you should Google him.....

{Crowd Boos} Ha ha!!!!
What a great picture of Keith, Katy & Jason. Boy, this really is the time of year to take our winter coats and shove 'em (unless you live in Denver), trash the winter work clothes, put on jeans and sandals and head out to the ballpark with family and friends. Just sit back and relax with a few beers, some peanuts, and watch the game, while at the same time, meeting and talking with our fellow fans sitting around us, sharing our individual baseball stories.
I can't help it, but every time I see photos of the new Yankee Stadium, so many memories come quickly to mind. Really nice memories of my visits to the old Stadium, especially with my sisters. We had so much fun, especially when we got to see Pedro vs. Clemens in May 2000. And you know, I think the same thing whenever you bring up the gone but not forgotten Shea Stadium. Some great memories there as well. I just hope I get to visit these new parks some day. In the meantime, I'm looking forward to my first visit to Fenway this season, after a long exhausting election year. It's time to enjoy our first summer with our new President. A Democrat.

bwaaahaaaaa..............go get em skankees. i'm just laughing too hard. yeah, that new stadium is really helping. oh deariedear. hope you're not at the saturday game KO. if so, you might have left already....

Friends: Can anyone tell me (even a ballpark figure) how much money Major League Baseball has expropriated from the public sector around this country, say, over the last 25 years -- but in particular via the publicly-financed new stadium method, along with the tax-breaks that typically accompany them?

Recall, if you will, the analytic framework that the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel employed in its most recent report, Assessing Treasury's Strategy: Six Months of TARP (April 7: http://cop.senate.gov/documents/cop-040709-report.pdf ). Namely: Liquidation, receivership (or "nationalization"), and subsidization.

Surely Major League Baseball has been so successful at securing taxpayer subsidies over the long-term that it not only puts the U.S. financial sector to shame, but merits description as a zombie industry far more than they do. (That is to say, while it is true that the magnitude of the taxdollars that have been funneled into the zombie banks dwarfs that which MLB has swallowed-up, still, no one from Bud Selig down can deny that MLB has been pulling this same kind of forced-taxpayer-subsidization scam for a lot longer.)

So, in closing, two questions for Mr. Olbermann et al.

First, do you support or oppose the TARP (etc. -- the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, and so on) subsidization of the zombie corporations of the U.S. financial sector?

Last, do you support or oppose state after state's and municipality after municipality's subsidization of the unpaid-costs zombie that is Major League Baseball?

Thanks.

David Peterson

Chicago, USA

PS. Generally speaking, I oppose both. Though unlike MLB's new-stadium bonanza, at least a serious social-welfare argument can be made in defense of government intervention to counter the rapidly deteriorating consequences of the zombie banks.

Keith what's with the suit? Only baseball suits wear suits to the ball game. Leno or Jason wasn't wearing a suit.
And I bet Yankee Stadium was real quiet after that 14 spot Saturday...

Nick C.
Countdown (and SF Giants) fan

Kieth..they say you can never be over dressed.. "THEY"are wrong. The "Hey! it's a ballgame ..Your overdressed" Police are looking for you.
Roy
ps..How much do those seats go for?

Keith:

Long time fan...since the days of the sweaters on Channel 2.

Having been born in Brooklyn ... I am old enough to have gone to Ebbets Field ... the two greatest words in the English language are "Yankees lose."

It is no wonder that YS is quieter than Shea II. The percentage of people who go there who are baseball fans is far less. They are there to see the stadium and because one "must" see the Yankees. Mets fans want to see baseball. (A little like Giants and Jets fans.)

Bob
Redondo Beach, CA

Keith, I'm a die-hard Cubs fan, which is apparently an untreatable problem that is passed down across the generations in my family. I love a great baseball game as much or more than any other red-blooded American fanatic. But, Sweet Fancy Moses....will you please come back to Countdown? Enough already with the vacations!

Keith made the WPITW honors for dressing up like he auditioning for The Wizard in 'The Wizard of Oz.

BTW KO, Frank Morgan's ghost called and wants his suit back. But I love you and your show anyways. LOL!

I don't quite understand how Pete Rose can be banned from baseball for life for betting, but baseball players who are addicts and abusers of various drugs are given a slap on the hand by handing over some money. The steroid and drug users are liars, wannabe heroes and destoyers of the game. I am not a fan of Pete Rose, in particular, but he loved baseball and gave it his all.

I believe the current asterisk holders are only in the game for how much cash they can grab, not for any love of the game or for its history. They are not heroes. They are not even real athletes. They are swelled up action-figures. They, and any coaches, managers, or owners who take part in or approval of steroid or drug use should be the ones banned for life.

This should apply to any sport action figure...male or female...baseball, basketball, football....professional or not....olympic sports figure or not. A very simple rule...one everyone should be able to understand. If an "athlete" uses steroids or unapproved drugs, they, the owner of their team, their manager, their coach and anyone else who approved or helped is banned for life. Any records made while using would be stripped from them as lies.

It is abhorant to cheaply and carelessly trash the way someone (anyone) chooses to mourn the loss (or not) of their mother. I think that how Keith Olbermann spent the time of his mouring period is a very close personal and sacred matter in his (and anyone's) life and is the most meaningful to them alone and for ANYONE else to involve themselves in judgement of how one privately or publicly mourns the death of a loved one is beyond reprehensible.

I watched Countdown tonight, and I think this story is bull****. How would you like it if your mother died and I posted a lot of BS about you? Would you like me to make some sort of lie so you can understand what he must be feeling? How about this: next time you decided you need to lie about someone to make yourself feel better use your god-given brain. For this blog/falsification I quote Keith " WTF".

Thank you Keith for exposing the lowlife who trashed you on City File.

It's no wonder that site is total b.s.

You rock Olbermann. As for the dufus at City File, he's probably sharing a hot shower & loofa with pock-face avout now.

Your mom was so lucky KO!