When there’s a way to get a trashy view of the sport, enter Keith Olbermann. This time it’s about the World Baseball Classic, because what matters most to Mr. Olbermann is the Major League Baseball season, because the annual league is much more important to those who don’t see the value of the world tournament. Weird flex, but OK.
His first post of the day talks about how the tournament is a waste and he uses the line that rosters are chosen ‘based on where their grandmothers slept’. You need two, so what if your maternal and paternal relatives are from different countries? Saying something in the language of stupidity has got people from most corners of the internet telling Olbermann how stupid he looks! But of course he couldn’t totally take back his statement, LAW? Look at his Twitter ratio 14 hours after the message was sent of 67 retweets and 2,043 quote tweets. Ouch.
Only half a day after sending the message in the middle of the night, Olbermann had a sort of revision of his sexist remark about sex, changing it to “where their ancestors slept”. He also added, “This crude description of the artificiality of team assignments is also trivial and for that I apologize.” Olbermann then doubles down that the WBC is a threat to what really matters in Major League Baseball’s season. Gosh, what a goober. Let’s take Israel team, let’s go? The Swingin’ Stars of David are made up mostly of American and Jewish professional baseball players who hope to raise the profile of the sport in the Middle Eastern country, whether or not one of their ancestors went weird in Tel Aviv.
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This is also the first World Baseball Classic in six years, giving players from countries a needed global spotlight. The next one isn’t until 2026, so we’ll all be saved from preseason injuries in the next two years. What happened to Edwin Diaz was avoidable and an accident in a moment of jubilation. But let’s take the whole tournament apart. Mostly because of a perverse stance on how teams are drawn? piss offF, Olbermann.