Don't forget about Bill O's try out w/the NY Mets
Detailing his baseball career, O'Reilly told Le Batard about the time the New York Mets brought him in for a tryout. While at the now-leveled Shea Stadium, O'Reilly recalled brushing shoulders with another pitcher who was about 5-foot-10 and "threw twice as hard as me." The pitcher turned out to be Hall of Famer Tom Seaver.
Olbermann, a baseball maven, took an axe to O'Reilly story, noting that he got the 6-foot-1 Seaver's height wrong. But the more egregious error, according to Olbermann, came with O'Reilly's timeline of the events.
Seaver’s rookie year was 1967, when Bill O’Reilly had just turned 18. In his biography, O’Reilly put the alleged Met tryout in his senior year of college, 1970 or ’71, by which point the Mets had already won the World Series, and Seaver had won the Cy Young Award. The only part of this story he hasn’t changed was that he — ‘lifelong Met fan’ — did not recognize Tom Seaver.
O'Reilly eventually hung up on Le Batard after swatting away a series of questions about a "controversy" that may have "embarrassed" him and caused "turbulence."
Olbermann interpreted those questions as references to the 2004 sexual harassment lawsuit against O'Reilly, but Le Batard said he wasn't even aware of that episode until after the interview.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/keith-olbermann-fact-checks-bill-oreilly-baseball-mets-tom-seaver
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.... try out seems a little far fetched too. Not unless if it was an "open try out"
but to hear Bill tell it that Mets had seen his talents and invited him in.
But I just read something in the NY Times that the more Bill gets hammered the
more that the people who watch him regularly will support him and think this is
a perfect example of the liberal media out to get, "Good ol' Bill," because he tells
us the truth.
BTW Bill also was the best punter in America too. 
google it
He even labeled it for us too. What a tool.