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Keith is going to be all "baseballed up" this week.
First, he will probably cry buckets all over the set tomorrow night with a "Salute to Old Yankee Stadium." And as if that weren't enough, the very next night, September 23, 2008, has to be one of the biggest days on the Olbermann Lifetime Calendar: the 100th anniversary of Fred Merkle's infamous base-running error that ultimately caused the New York Giants to lose the NL pennant to the Cubbies, and caused Merkle to be labeled "Bonehead"--unfairly, to Keith's mind, a situation he has felt so passionately about that to this day he continues to defend Merkle.
Keith has upheld Merkle for years as a man wrongly condemned for having done something no different from what many other players did at the time and failing to follow an arcane rule that many other players also failed to follow--and which had never been enforced anyway--in the first game he ever started, at a very young age. Merkle played baseball for 16 years and had a decent career, but all anyone seemed to remember him for was this, and he had to endure the label "Bonehead" for most of his life.
Keith feels the injustice of what was done to Merkle so keenly that I can't see Tuesday going by without him mentioning it. And given that it's the centennial of that day, I don't see him relegating his mention to a mere "Oddball" introduction, either.
Keith has proposed that in Merkle's honor, September 23 be declared "a national day of amnesty." Why, he might even declare a moratorium on itemizing Sarah Palin's lies on that day. I guess we'll see.
One thing I think I know, though, is what the #1 story on Tuesday night's show will be. Unless some really big huge chunk of news comes along to knock the whole show a-kilter.
RIP, Fred.
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