Bill O'Reilly: Worst Person In The Sports World

[Capt. Obvious]

Olbermann Just Can't Resist Debunking Bill O'Reilly's Athletic Career Again

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But it was another one of O'Reilly's sporting anecdotes that Olbermann picked apart this time.

Detailing his baseball career, O'Reilly told Le Batard about the time the New York Mets brought him in for a tryout. While at the now-leveled Shea Stadium, O'Reilly recalled brushing shoulders with another pitcher who was about 5-foot-10 and "threw twice as hard as me." The pitcher turned out to be Hall of Famer Tom Seaver.

Olbermann, a baseball maven, took an axe to O'Reilly story, noting that he got the 6-foot-1 Seaver's height wrong. But the more egregious error, according to Olbermann, came with O'Reilly's timeline of the events.

Seaver’s rookie year was 1967, when Bill O’Reilly had just turned 18. In his biography, O’Reilly put the alleged Met tryout in his senior year of college, 1970 or ’71, by which point the Mets had already won the World Series, and Seaver had won the Cy Young Award. The only part of this story he hasn’t changed was that he — ‘lifelong Met fan’ — did not recognize Tom Seaver.

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Man, do I miss Countdown.

[Johonny]

1. Bill O-Reilly is so bad at telling fishing stories that his fish keeps getting smaller each time he

tells it. FOX news destroys your brain.

[Botany]

2. Bill O was also one of the best punters in America too.

http://mediamatters.org/research/2005/02/08/olbermann-revealed-oreillys-resume-padding-in-s/132706

[RufusTFirefly]

3. C'mon, Uncle Bill! Tell us the story about the falafel again!

[niyad]

4. I am with you--I miss Countdown and KO.

[KeepItReal]

6. Agreed.

KO was and is the truth.

[Doctor_J]

5. At his tryout with the Jets he bumped into fellow rookie Johnny Sample

He and Sample attended the March On Washington and Dr. King's funeral together, and remain friends to this day.