Not a superstar. Again. I repeat not a superstar.

What a strange thing to highlight the day a man died.

He died folks, but he was not, I repeat, not a superstar. Lest you be confused on the story, not a superstar.

Hey genius, if you have to tell people he was not a superstar, they already know.

He was a controversial pitcher. During the 1994-95 baseball work stoppage, Lidle was one of the replacement players that the major league baseball owners used in an attempt to break the Players Union. That earned him the resentment of some former teammates.

It is a wonder Olberman didn’t celebrate his death.

You’re killing me! Why does this moron’s ugly mug appear on your blog so often? Argghh!

Defector01 on October 12, 2006 at 2:09 PM
mountain out of a molehill?

Seen Lidle’s carrer?

And everyone I know, that did not make it to the Big Leagues, would kill to be there. And for 7 years? Heaven.
There are only about 1000 players in the Majors each year, out of hundreds of millions who would like to be. Possibly 2 superstars on each team avg., so say 60ish?. So why beat him up instead of telling the truth? How remarkable it is to make it to the Big Leagues, and what an extremely pleasant, kind and professional ballplayer, and man, that he was. An AMAZING life, cut short. Ask the sports writers.
There were so many great things to say about this gentleman, but olberdoosh chose to demean a man that has accomplished far more than most people can dream. All the disgrace is Olberman’s.

“Did not appear much in the postseason; neither did the Yankees for that matter.”

Go Tigers!

Words that best describe Krazy Keith.

SATAN , but he cant get anyone to follow him.

Sad how the lowest of the low seem to find a way to try and lower others. He so desperately wants to be on someone’s level and the only way for him to accomplish this is to lower everyone else. Psych books could be written on Olberdoosh. Inferiority, delusions, illusions, and obsessions.
He’s a walking talking psychological disaster area. I am NOT kidding.
He hates because that what he is. Attraction.

What I found troubling is that Lidle’s father heard about this on the news, the networks not respecting the tradition of keeping victim names out of the news until the family is notified. Mrs Lidle and child were in flight commercially and were notified when they arrived in NY.

You’re almost promoting him. No offense intended. It’s just my oppinion.

That was confirmed after I left the office yesterday.
Whether the subject is sports or politics, you can be sure of one thing– Keith Olbermann will remain classless.
I don’t know a lot about this kind of thing, but this YouTube at Wizbang! is……

This is all part of the culture that tells us that great sports players are better people than ‘good’ ones, and Hollywood stars’ opinions are more important than those from the average Joe.

Yeah, but the Royals were eliminated from post season contention after the 1st game of the regular season.

Ahem.

I’ll have you know that the KC Royals were eliminated from next season’s post season contention before the first game of the regular season.

That point isn’t how talented he was, it’s that the man just died and we are hearing this already. Can we at least wait until the funeral?

Actually there is a bigger point that was lost in this whole tragedy. As Keith was on the air saying all of this, no one bothered to call the family. His father heard about this on the television and his wife and child were on an airplane with no way of knowing he was dead.

So in addition to Keith making an ass of himself, we had a press that was so eager to get the story that the people that had the right to know about this were forgotten. Shame on alot of people!

Olbermann’s comments are evidence that it is hard for some people to show respect for the dead. But I guess in a world where Ward Churchill still has fans, that should not surprise me.