{"id":2325,"date":"2014-06-23T18:17:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T18:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2016-02-13T23:43:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T23:43:24","slug":"keith-olbermanns-absolutely-epic-rant-against-chewing-tobacco-in-baseball-get-if-off-the-field-for-tony-gwynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"Keith Olbermann’s absolutely EPIC rant against chewing tobacco in baseball — “Get it off the field, for Tony Gwynn”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was pleasantly surprised to watch this 5-minute, emotional rant from Keith Olbermann on his ESPN show calling for an end to chewing tobacco on the field of baseball. I was surprised that this was something Olbermann felt so strongly about (and it really made me miss him from his MSNBC days — this is what Keith should be doing, not sports highlights).<\/p>\n

Olbermann, who broke down crying talking about Tony Gwynn earlier in the week, takes on the MLB Players’ Association for refusing to budge on chewing tobacco (“they are completely, utterly, indefensibly wrong,” Olbermann said.) BTW, MLB actually wants to ban it. He also takes on denialists who claim that Gwynn’s cancer had nothing to do with his chewing. (I saw one of these denialists ranting online last week myself, quoting some sketchy medical group that turns out is consistently pro-industry and pro-corporation.)<\/p>\n

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