Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick spent most of the Big Show discussing confidence of one sort or another.

Dan is concerned that Arizona QB Kurt Warner is losing confidence and may soon be replaced by Matt Leinart. Keith thinks it is difficult to tell confidence in a QB because every play is a tricky one. KO also says a lose of confidence in any sport is often linked to something in the player’s personal life. He went on to some possibly accurate psycho-babbling about balls/games = male authority figures, but he lost me somewhere in it.

The confidence of the St.Louis Cardinals is possibly shot too. Indeed KO thinks the entire National League is without hope and that the NL playoffs should just be the NL finals. Anyone at ESPN ever entertain the idea that the NL races are so tight because so many of the teams are GOOD?

Larry Brown of NY Knicks infamy is in arbitration with the owner for his promised salary well as 25 million dollars worth of grievances. KO says “me too”. He can just get in line with all the Knick fans out there.

The big story of the day seemed to be a little town in upper Michigan that cancelled its high school football season because they were way outmatched and getting injured. For reasons this blogger can not fathom, Dan got on the ESPN bandwagon and agreed with all the other talking heads that this will hurt the confidence of the players and make them feel like “losers”.

Keith took a moment out from signing his name to documents he admitted he was not bothering to read, to sensibly point out that the coach who asked for the cancellation must have done so for the safety of the kids, and that he must have had a very good reason to think they were in danger (the coach would later come on Dan’s show and say just that).

Oh, and someone called in to offer the idea that canceling the season might be some sort of “Mennonite with an agenda” conspiracy, which made about as much sense as what Dan was saying.

There was also another high schooler who played with a beetle eating his eardrum. Eww.

Continuing the high school theme, the duo discussed the wisdom of high school fantasy teams, which a St. Paul newspaper was receiving flak for running. Keith mentioned that in 1994 he was the driving force behind a baseball rotisserie team that began to draft high school players. Someone sensibly took Nomar Garciaparra, but despite that bit of divination, Keith decided that doing that sort of thing was akin to “tertiary syphilis”. You know, just before your brain begins to ooze? Keith opted out. Dan on the other hand thought it would be a great team name.

And that was The Big Show.