Keith Olbermann Took on Derek Jeter "Idolatry" Again

Keith Olbermann says he heard from a bunch of Derek Jeter fetishists today, which isn’t particularly surprising. Without naming names, the destoyifier (a made-up word which characterizes Olbermann, Jon Stewart, and John Oliver) rebutted four main arguments: Leadership, shortstop-as-defensive-position (three shortstops have won MVP during Jeter’s career, and he’s been a pretty meh fielder), tradition (many Yankee legends were put out to pasture), and the idea that Jeter’s parade was rained on. (Mother Nature might do that, too.)

I’ve personally been a baseball agnostic for about a decade now, and just can’t bring myself to get worked up about this issue.