Mr. October, Mr. MSNBC chat as Yankees count down to 1st pitch

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Hey, Stewies! After a hiatus for a few days, I'm back stalking around spring training sites in sunny Florida. I ran out of postcard stamps, but K-Duck said to post anyway between Answer Man recon.

~~Legends~~ Steinbrenner Field in Tampa is a great place to spot the stars, of course. You could (fist) bump into Yogi Berra, you could catch a glimpse of the (non-Springsteen) Boss in an elevator, or you could find Reginald Martinez Jackson hitting fungoes before a game.

Even better (or worse, if your political bent goes right) you could spot Mr. October chatting with the host of MSNBC's Countdown, Keith Olbermann, during batting practice.

Reggie, you might have heard of. Olbermann, the former ESPN SportsCenter co-host back in the Dan Patrick heyday, became more prominent during the past election cycle by anchoring his channel's coverage of all that led to the Barack Obama coronation.

More importantly, Olbermann is a huge baseball fan whose family has owned Yankees season tickets at least long enough for Chuck Knoblauch to do this to Olbermann's mother.

After the Jackson-Olbermann conversation broke up, I (naturally) went over to ~~the Hall of Famer~~ Olbermann and asked him about Reggie. Olbermann confirmed what I knew: sometimes, Reggie is a hard person to get to know.

Olbermann also recalled when he first passed muster with Jackson. It was about 1986, when Jackson would have been with the Angels (he must kill... the queen).

"I asked him if he considered himself baseball's blue-collar superstar," Olbermann said.

Reggie loved the question, apparently, because it was flattering and something he hadn't heard before. But it also opened a door for Olbermann.

"It got me into the circle of guys who could ask Reggie a question and not be ... back then, he didn't always have the time for us" in the media, Olbermann said.

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1. Posted by TheTruth Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:27 pm EDT
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I'm not a huge fan of Olbermann's politics, but he is one of the most smartest and informed people when it comes to baseball. I wish he'd do more TV work related to it. He's kind of wasted on the NBC football highlights.
2. Posted by TheTruth Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:27 pm EDT
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Can't believe I just typed "most smartest". That was the most stupidest comment I've ever written.
3. Posted by This is Dave, Hello There! Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:42 pm EDT
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He's much bigger in person than I expected (not that he looks small on TV) and he was quite chill. No ranting!!!!!!
4. Posted by Johnny Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:36 pm EDT
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REGGIE-----REGGIE-!!!!!!! I enjoye WATCHING him PLAY! FAT Rush"-Limbug vs Olbermann .........I'll take Olbermann..........
5. Posted by Anrkist Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:56 pm EDT
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Mr. Olbermann himself... I like the guy and his show but he is so damn smug. You know how some people enjoy the smell of their own farts? Well he REALLY enjoys the smell of his own farts. I think we need a post with Bill O' chatting with someone from the Women's Louffa team.
6. Posted by Weedies Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:42 pm EDT
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The pride of Cornell's agricultural program...so vain that he brought a framed degree into the studio.
7. Posted by Weedies Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:42 pm EDT
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Huge head, tiny ratings. He's also concealing a lot of blubber behind that desk, or so I hear.
8. Posted by Buttons Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:46 pm EDT
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Decent story but I personally just love the Naked Gun reference.
9. Posted by A Yahoo! User Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:53 am EDT
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Oberdork is nothing more than a effeminate, limo liberal. He should wipe his nose once in a while, the view of Chris Mathews' waste is disgusting. What he has to do w/sports is beyond me, alas, Yahoo is nothing more than liberal propaganda itself.
10. Posted by zubee Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:49 pm EDT
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A good pairing would be Ollberman and McCarver. Fisticuffs by the fifth inning because neither one would keep quiet for a minute.
11. Posted by Crest Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:28 pm EDT
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Go Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, Brewers, Cardinals,
12. Posted by Mike Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:19 pm EDT
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"what he has to do w/sports is beyond me"
dude, he was an espn anchor and fox sports writer for *years* before he got his on political show. google is your friend....
13. Posted by Bobby R Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:59 pm EDT
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Olberman is one of the biggest socialist liars and scum bags on this planet. this guy is a yellow worthless piece of human trash, it would only have pleased me to hear that reggie floored the coward and put him in the hospital...keith olberman is guilty of treason, he is not a jorurnist, he is a paid political hack for george soro's, the head of the leftwing yellow blooded cowards..if i were to see this scum trash on the streets, i would spit on him right in his ugly face. do not believe a word olberman says, he is a liar and distorts the news, makes a mockery of our men and women protecting this nation and the rights olberman abuses everyday, is the rights our men and women are out there proteting him for.... if your reading this olberman, you best hang on to that hack job you have because word is no one would hire you, even if you worked for free... your a cancer, your show has horrible ratings and you could not make it in sports so you run off to msnbc--the official obama socialist network, and even there you have failed..your a born loser and a failure you pompus arrogant pig
14. Posted by saucy Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:41 pm EDT
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i like reggie. couldn't care less about olberman.
15. Posted by Yankeefan Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:12 pm EDT
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Hey Vote Life. Tell the truth! What is it about your rightwingers that you have to make stuff up in order to make a point? Olberman has a degree from Cornell. Perhaps you went the Lard Limbaugh school and failed out of community college after failing BALLET?
As for SOL4ME61, some of us liberals are martial artists with brown and black belts.
Finally Olberman has an inner ear issue that prevents him from doing some physical things like driving. What is your excuse?
16. Posted by zubee Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:49 pm EDT
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The Yankees made Ollberman kind of a celeb. Wasn't it his mom that got bopped by an errant throw by a Yankee secondbaseman sitting behind the Yankee dugout? I think he was an ESPN anchor at the time.
17. Posted by Weedies Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:42 pm EDT
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"Perhaps you went the Lard Limbaugh school and failed out of community college after failing BALLET"
I'm in college right now, but I have to defend Limbaugh on this one. The reason most of us go to college is to pass a key litmus test for getting a job and becoming successful. If I knew, like Rush Limbaugh did, that I had enough innate intelligence and wherewithal to stop studying, drop out right now and become almost a billionaire - I sure as hell would take that route. I think most people would. I'd argue that it takes a real genius to circumvent the overpriced liberal indoctrination machine known as college and educate oneself with such spectacular results.
And Limbaugh went to a state university, not community college. Typical lib distortion.
18. Posted by Kyle Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:48 pm EDT
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#16- How do you REALLY feel?
Oh, and you forgot to include ACORN in your rambling list of talking points.
And #23- Yes, who knew you could make a billion dollars pulling out stuff from your behind....? Like that one bit about Rash saying that libs protest adoption centers? Hilarious! Its unfortunate that the GOP feels they need to take their talking points from a boner-fide, thrice-failed married tub of lard, but.... *shrug*
19. Posted by Vote Life Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:22 pm EDT
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Are Olberputz and Bryant "Im really white" Gumbel from the same town????
20. Posted by Weedies Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:42 pm EDT
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Kyle, shouldn't you be manning pump three right now? Limbaugh has never pontificated against divorce and I don't recall him saying that libs protest adoption centers. The latter might be true, but only because liberals are so entrenched in a culture of death (for instance, you insist on taxpayer funded embryonic stem cell research even though adult stem cells work just as well and no restrictions ever existed on private funding of embryonic). Limbaugh is a huge pro-lifer, and none of his actions controvert that position. (divorce =/= death) Rush is the embodiment of the great William F. Buckley quote, "I'd rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty."
21. Posted by jon Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:14 pm EDT
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vote life user = timothy mcveigh 2009
22. Posted by Vote Life Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:22 pm EDT
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Rizzo = Barney Frank 2009
23. Posted by amero Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:42 pm EDT
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as soon as i hear or see any sign of olberdouche i change the channel
24. Posted by amero Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:42 pm EDT
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Obama says kill babies not terrorists
25. Posted by tony braswell Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:30 pm EDT
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keith olberman? who's he? the straw that stirs the drink? yes, reggie was great, especially with the yanks, and, those reggie candy bars weren't bad, either. nc yankee tony.