A few days ago, FOXSports.com's Kevin Hench wrote an item about scoring rules that as a viewer, seem somewhat off-base for the sport of baseball. It's not the article that I have such issues with, though - it's more about how he introduces the piece in his subhed.

He credits the line, "If you're scoring at home, or even if you're alone" to Keith Olbermann, now an MSNBC news and commentary anchor, and former ESPN SportsCenter host. Perhaps that's where the line had become more mainstream, but that certainly isn't the place I originally heard the term - the origination, at least as far back as I go, is with WFAN radio host Steve Somers. Somers used to, especially while working the overnight show, listening to caller after caller explain how happy they were to speak to their own "Captain Midnight," call out the identification letter and number combinations for each of the live copy commercials with that same phrase - "That's LV5829 for those of you scoring at home, or if you're alone." To the untrained or unfamiliar listener, one might have thought that this was some sort of weird contest the station was running, where you had to keep track of these codes for some odd reason - but that wasn't the case. It was just something Somers did - and still does, here and there - but it most certainly didn't originate with Olbermann.