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Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

Small White Ball — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:35:33 EDT

If he dropped the Yankees schtick, I would approve. It's embarrassing. Greenberg loves him though...which means I doubly disapprove.

/dueling.

Small White Ball

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

Crookednose — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:24:15 EDT

He's Vandy and Vandy is good people. Except their hoops team. Damn them

Crookednose

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

G.G. — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:27:27 EDT

"Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a sportswriter"

Approve.

G.G.

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

shawnkemp40 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:30:11 EDT

Approve - Knows his baseball, is a local boy (from the great Northwest) and isn't too big for his britches to still call in to local radio shows. And his name is Buster.

shawnkemp40

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

Ed Glosser, Trivial Psychic — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:11:00 EDT

ESPN is lucky to have coherent, sensible guys who love baseball as much as Olney and Caple.

Approve.

Ed Glosser, Trivial Psychic

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:22:29 EDT

Young MC says, "Buster? Approved!"

josereyes.theroof wishes to perform Tim Harris's sack-dance for you

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

Chanukah Zombie — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:03:01 EDT

Olney is all that's wrong with the traditional baseball media. He invented the "productive out," a junk stat that was constructed entirely to be anti-Moneyball and his love for Jeter's "character" knows no bounds.

Dis. A. Prove.

Chanukah Zombie

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

Evgeni Merkin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:41:03 EDT

Stansbury is all the rage. Approve.

Evgeni Merkin

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

Cooler Than Warm Milk — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:34:34 EDT

Olney is a lot like Peter Gammons, except he is right most of the time.

Cooler Than Warm Milk

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

Thundercracker — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:29:18 EDT

Buster is good, and I'm sure it takes a lot of inner strength to walk into work every day and know that Steve Phillips & John Kruk are employed as baseball analysts on the same network you are.

I remember when I saw Steve Phillips critiquing trades on deadline day...Steve Phillips, critiquing trades? In the words of Gob Bluth, "COME ON!"

Thundercracker

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KittyLitterKing — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:36:10 EDT

To continue reading this article you must be an Insider.

---And for that reason alone, Disapprove

KittyLitterKing

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

NovakAintNoJokovic — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:34:30 EDT

base-ball?

NovakAintNoJokovic

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

FredGarvin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:18:14 EDT

Knows his shit. Non-schticky. Approve.

FredGarvin

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

parker91 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:01:29 EDT

Approve. The avatar would have gone on strike if I didn't vote this way.

parker91

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

Chad Sexington — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:59:18 EDT

Disapprove. I just plain don't care for him.

Chad Sexington

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

RRich — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:53:37 EDT

Buster needs to comb his hair once in a while.

Approve

RRich

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

DeepFriar — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:49:41 EDT

This whole post is Bol-olney
/here all weekend

DeepFriar

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

Whitey Fisk — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:46:25 EDT

Buster Hymen

/cheaplaugh

Whitey Fisk

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

EDogII — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:43:40 EDT

How could you not like someone who had a cow as a pet...and his name is Buster. That's a recipe for likability.

EDogII

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

shea_guevara — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:42:19 EDT

I don't have any real strong opinions about Buster one way or the other, although I thought Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty was well written.

But he always has this look on his face like the dad who will turn this car around if you kids don't shut up.

shea_guevara

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Matt_T — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:40:35 EDT

Is this the one who's hand was taken by a loose seal?

Matt_T

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

hector villanueva's posse — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:40:27 EDT

Buster Olney not > Parliament/Funkadelic Bassist Busta Cherry.

Disapprove for that reason alone.

hector villanueva's posse

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

ArkansasFred — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:38:43 EDT

Who's a good baseball analyst? Who's the best little analyst in the whole wide world? That's right, Buster. You are!

ArkansasFred

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

shea_guevara — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:36:48 EDT

@gjdodger: Joe Morgan is more like the homeless man's Bill Plaschke.

shea_guevara

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Carlton_Whitfield — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:36:35 EDT

Is this a still photo from an airport security camera?

Carlton_Whitfield

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

Yostal — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:36:27 EDT

Approve.

Yostal

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

jar66su — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:34:05 EDT

I approve, even if he drinks cognac and eats gouda cheese.
Pig can fly.

jar66su

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

gjdodger — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:32:31 EDT

Then who's the poor man's Buster Olney?
Joe Morgan.

gjdodger

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

throwbot — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:30:39 EDT

Dude knows how to milk a cow.

Approve.

throwbot

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

DennyCrane — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:30:03 EDT

@Chamomiles Davis: Then who's the poor man's Buster Olney?

DennyCrane

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

The Fan’s Attic — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:29:29 EDT

Bust-er? I barely knew 'er.

The Fan’s Attic

Media Approval Ratings: Buster Olney

Me and Willie McGee — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:26:57 EDT

I like Buster a lot. He's kind of an old-school reporter in that he seems generally excited to have a job covering baseball and his love for the game is pretty transparent.

Me and Willie McGee