Posted on 08/14/2018 12:09:02 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Olbermann doesn’t typically call baseball games on television, but he replaced Karl Ravech for Monday’s game – which was a makeup for a July 22 rainout between the New York City rivals. The game was not available on the Yankees and Mets local networks and aired exclusively on ESPN.
It’s unclear if fans disapproved of Olbermann for his far-left political views or if they simply didn’t care for his broadcasting style, but his name quickly began trending and the results weren’t pretty.
New York Daily News columnist Bob Raissman wrote, “ESPN finds a way to punish Mets/Yankees fans by putting Olbermann in the TV booth tonight.”
One user added, “I think it's safe to say this experiment of Keith Olbermann calling MLB games has become a disaster.” New York Post media columnist Andrew Marchand sent a series of tweets bashing the decision to put Olbermann in the booth.
“Olbermann sounds like a guy who hasn't done a lot of play-by-play, which he hasn't. It is a bit distracting,” Marchand wrote. “Putting Olbermann in the booth was a bad decision. This game doesn't need a gimmick.”
Marchand added: “It also is not a good decision internally. How many more loyal to ESPN play-by-players than Olbermann would kill for the opportunity to do Yanks-Mets? Reward them.”
“ESPN allowing Keith Olbermann to announce this baseball game is the worst thing to ever happen to the sport,” Barstool Sports’ Eric Hubbs wrote.
Sports blog Razzball tweeted, “That ESPN thinks Keith Olbermann is a good idea tells you everything you need to know about ESPN.”
One fan cautioned ESPN about what was occurring on social media during the 8-5 Mets’ victory: “Hey @ESPN, do a quick twitter search of ‘Keith Olbermann’ and maybe think twice next time you want him to call a game.”
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What does Ray Barone of Newsday think?
The Olber-Moron is working his way back to sports? Booo...
More winning. As a bonus, those damn Yankees lost.
Olberman has never been accused of having any talent.
That’s a name I haven’t heard for a while. I don’t remember much, but the memories are not fond.
It was painful to listen to. Olberman was awful.
Back when I did watch the NFL, this clymer Olbermann is the reason I kept missing the NBC Sunday night game because he was part of the pregame show.
The politicization of every sport! Nothing is sacred. I’ve left the NFL and now this. That said:
BOYCOTT THE NFL!™
Yes. Even if the Yankees had won, the Olbermann effect made it excruciating.
I used to think Olberman was actually a pretty good sports reporter.
He should have stuck to that- rather than show his political stupidity
I turned to this game last night as I refuse to watch the National Felons League.
I recognized this asshat’s voice in about 5 seconds and changed to something else.
Some exec at ESPN was trying to show the world how woke he was with this move. Plenty of other guys available who could have called that game.
Doberman was NEVER a good sports reporter, clear back to his KTLA days!
You know....I kinda like what you said....
How woke is Olbermann anyway?
Yeah....I recall those days...
John and Ken...Jim Rome...and this!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57W05-oopNA
I actually saw the last couple of innings of that game last night.
Olberman wasn’t half bad at calling the game. He was able to keep his mouth shut about politics while I was watching.
Either that or he know where a lot of bodies are buried.
Go back and find the comments of Joel Hyatt (inventor of storefront law firms at the mall and business partner of AlGore) after he had to fire Olbermann from CurrentTV.
Even to Libs, Olbermann is clearly the WORLD’S WORST EMPLOYEE!
I detest Olbermann too, but this is the one thing he’s actually good at.
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