In the 5 or so years I’ve been watching Countdown, I have never seen Keith Olbermann name just one person in his Worsts segment. That is, until tonight, when he gave the honor to baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, for failing to overturn the “safe” call that robbed Armando Galarraga of a perfect game.

In doing so, Olbermann managed to change the mind of someone who, only hours earlier, had mocked a friend for expressing a similar wish to overturn the call.

When Mark Whicker heard the tragic story of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a child and held captive for 18 years by a convicted sex criminal and religious loon, all he could think of was the sports milestones she missed. But instead of confining this crass, narrow-minded realization to a drunken card game conversation, he went and turned it into an entire sports column for the OC Register.