The AP has a story out on the price of baseball tickets, and spoke with Our Mr. Olbermann on the subject:

Olbermann remembered back to 1972, when four seats for the season wound up costing $1,056 (there were 15 doubleheaders). Now the seats _ so close to the field that his mother got hit by a ball when Chuck Knoblauch overthrew first base eight years ago _ cost him $81,000.

“From $1,000 a season, it’s $1,000 a game,” he said. “So literally they’ve now crossed that mark where it’s 81 times more expensive to see the season as it was in 1972.”

And I thought bleacher seats at Wrigley going from $4 to $40 in 20 years was harsh! Yikes!

Our fantasy baseball league is accepting teams for one more week!

The Tertiary Syphilis League has the requisite 12 teams signed up, but there’s still room if you want to get in on the fun. The draft is scheduled for next Saturday, March 15 (time TBD) and I’ll accept new teams through midnight Eastern on Friday.

Contact me if you’d like to play or want more info.

Tie: The pale pink/grey/cream stripey one that I’m not fond of

Worst Person: Karl “Laugh-A-Minute” Rove, explaining that “History has a funny way of deciding things. Sometimes history sends you things, and 9/11 came our way.” And sometimes Karl, you’re a jackass. Oh, my mistake. You’re always a jackass.

Tonight’s pre-recorded Countdown began as you might expect, with more about John McCain, Vicki Iseman, the New York Times, and what still appears to be a non-story. Senator McCain continues to deny any wrongdoing. The unnaturally taut visage of Mrs. McCain is disappointed in the NYT. Senator Obama had no comment. Governor Romney had no comment. Governor Huckabee takes McCain at his word because he is a “decent and honorable” man. Howard Fineman thinks the Washington Post story on the subject has more meat, and might get legs. Meat… legs… Mmmmm…. Chicken!

Did anyone else catch KO’s “John McClane” slip? This election would be much more entertaining if it really was McClane. “Yippie ki yi ay motherfucker” is a better campaign slogan than “Ready on day one.” It’s absolutely a better campaign slogan than a foreign policy.

Comedian Rush Limbaugh thinks that McCain should be chastened now that the Great Liberal Media Satan has turned on him. Chastened, and ready to come into the warm, smothering fold of the Orthodox Republicans. Together they can fight their imagined enemies like the Homosexual Agenda!

No Oddball for the second night in a row, but we did revisit the Nexus of Politics and Terror. A list that just keeps getting longer and longer.

Ending tonight’s show with baseball shenanigans! A long and storied history of baseball shenanigans, from a single-finger salute in 1886, to Our Mr. Olbermann’s 1991 role in repaying Dave Gallagher on behalf of the New Jersey Inventor’s Hall of Fame, to this week’s trade of Kyle Kendrick - for Japanese speed eater Kobayashi. Oh, baseball! I am so glad you’re sorta kinda back!