Keith Olbermann is the Satchel Paige of Cable News.

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14. I also love Satchel Paige however

some excerpts:

Satchel didn't think the rules should apply to him, and because of his superstar abilities, they shouldn't. He should have been in the Majors, but he was a "difficult employee" with a high opinion of himself, if not a 'god' complex':

Abel Linares offered Paige $100 per game to play winter ball for the Santa Clara team in the Cuban League. Gambling on baseball games in Cuba was such a huge pastime that players were not allowed to drink alcohol, so they could stay ready to play. Paige—homesick for carousing, hating the food, despising the constant inspections and being thoroughly baffled by the language—went 6–5 in Cuba.[20] He left Cuba abruptly before the end of the season

Paige did not like being overshadowed

Despite Greenlee's efforts to control his biggest star, Paige followed his own schedule and was often late to games that he was scheduled to pitch

Paige could not return to the NNL because he was banned from the league for the 1935 season for jumping to the Bismarck team





I would agree that its not a perfect comparison, because Paige was a bigger superstar than Olbermann. Paige was however "a difficult employee" with a "complex", although IMHO it was much more deserved than Olbermann's.

One of my favorite memories of my Dad was watching the great Satchel Paige pitch a couple of innings in 1961 when he pitched for Portland.