Current TV's Countdown with Keith Olbermann adding Michael Moore, Ken Burns, Markos Moulitsas as regular contributors. - TVNewser
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The Village Voice’s Allen Barra spoke with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns at the George Steinbrener monument unveiling last week:
Barra: Are you here, we asked Burns, because you’re an admirer of The Boss?
Burns: Oh, puh-leese, [Burns shot back.] Springsteen is The Boss. Steinbrenner was Darth Vader.
Barra: But what about his transformation of the Yankees from a second-division, second-rate organization to a world champion, multibillion-dollar corporation.
Burns: Give me a break. Steinbrenner is the guy who woke up at third base and thought he hit a triple. It’s amazing how all this guy’s sleaze is suddenly forgotten. Who else would have hired a shady gambler [Howie Spira, pictured above] to follow one of his players around just to get dirt on them? (As Steinbrenner did to Dave Winfield.)
Barra added: Well, I wanted to reply, how about previous Yankee owners who hired private detectives to follow Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin around — but I let that one pass.
Continue reading… TheVillageVoice
h/t CantStopTheBleeding for the link and the Spira pic](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9kgqbMZSc1qdwmsho1_500.jpg)
The Village Voice’s Allen Barra spoke with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns at the George Steinbrener monument unveiling last week:
Barra: Are you here, we asked Burns, because you’re an admirer of The Boss?
Burns: Oh, puh-leese, [Burns shot back.] Springsteen is The Boss. Steinbrenner was Darth Vader.
Barra: But what about his transformation of the Yankees from a second-division, second-rate organization to a world champion, multibillion-dollar corporation.
Burns: Give me a break. Steinbrenner is the guy who woke up at third base and thought he hit a triple. It’s amazing how all this guy’s sleaze is suddenly forgotten. Who else would have hired a shady gambler [Howie Spira, pictured above] to follow one of his players around just to get dirt on them? (As Steinbrenner did to Dave Winfield.)
Barra added: Well, I wanted to reply, how about previous Yankee owners who hired private detectives to follow Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin around — but I let that one pass.
Continue reading… TheVillageVoice
h/t CantStopTheBleeding for the link and the Spira pic
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‘Baseball’ was an orgy for baseball lovers. And what fun would sports be if there wasn’t something to argue about? Critics and viewers received the series favorably, but the sports media was often suspect. Veteran Philadelphia columnist Bill Conlin called it “Long with the Wind.” On talk radio in New York, Mike and the Mad Dog played Monday morning moviemaker after each episode, harping on errors and pointing out omissions. But nobody was more critical than Keith Olbermann, who amassed a list of mistakes, 160 strong. “Can they suspend your poetic license?” asked Olbermann.
In making The Tenth Inning, a two-part, four-hour follow-up to Baseball covering the last twenty years, Burns’ considerable savvy is on display right away: None other than Olbermann himself is the first talking head featured in the new series. Burns might have bristled at Olbermann’s critique but he was shrewd enough to enlist his former antagonist this time around.
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Tenth Inning lacks artistic punch of original but is still a joy
Continue reading… Alex Belth - SI.com
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“Baseball didn’t get truly integrated, until you had black players that sucked.”
“On A-Rod, if you read Selena Roberts’ book, he was taking (steroids) all through high school, all through the minors and Seattle…”
Ken Burns talking about his new baseball documentary The Tenth Inning
(Burns on WFAN)
