Things to read while thinking about how long you have to be unemployed before you can start putting down “blogger” as your occupation on official forms . . . Colin Wyers continues his series on how to measure a player’s value. I think the worst thing about this is the table in which it is […]

There’s a quote by some author which goes “no winter lasts forever and no spring skips its turn.” I can’t remember who said it, but he certainly wasn’t a baseball fan from Ohio. Today at THT: Brian Borawski has the week in business. Item #2 on his list is about the Israeli Baseball League. Readers […]

Things to download and read in the event you happen to be stuck on a cross-country flight tonight. Well, unless you have something cooler to look at. Steve Treder continues his look at lefthanders, this time hitting up the shortstops. And no, I don’t think we’ve reached fetish territory yet. That won’t come unless and […]

Only two comments about the Stupid Bowl: 1. The counter-programming award has to go to The Learning Channel, which ran the following shows during the game: “Forbidden Love: Polygamy”; “My Husband’s Three Wives”; “Anatomy of Sex;” and “Mother Knows Sex.” Yeah, they probably got trounced by both the game and the Puppy Bowl, but it’s […]

I hesitate to overshare, but some of you seem to have some genuine concern for me, so I’ll give you the update: no, I am no longer looking for a legal job. This is not because I found a new one yet, but because me and the other gals in the neighborhood decided that it […]

You think I read this stuff because it constitutes excellent writing and analysis. The truth is that I’m writing a scathing tell-all book called “ShysterBall: The Hardball Times Years” and I need to know everything about Studeman, Treder, Brattain and the others before I throw them under the bus. Colin Wyers has part two in […]

I found out yesterday that I can have someone killed for about $160. Unfortunately it was my cat, so I’m in a pretty crappy mood this morning. On the bright side, the two cats that remain in Chez Calcaterra have been on their best behavior since I had to put Lizzie down, as they now […]

I watched the movie “Five Easy Pieces” for about the tenth time last night, and it never gets old. Fabulous movie. If someone told me I had a day to live, I’d probably cue it up. But one thing has always bothered me about it. Well, not the movie, especially, but the reaction to its […]

We’re certainly in the doldrums of the offseason, aren’t we? No awards to be given out, no big signings seem to be on the horizon, the WBC is, to me at least, boring, and the Hall of Fame has said its piece. We’re basically adrift, hoping the stores hold up until we make landfall in […]

Things to to read as you ponder the disconnect between the nice things people say about you after you die and the occasionally nasty person you were while you were alive: In This Annotated Week in Baseball History, Richard Barbieri uses Alan Benes’ birthday as an excuse to look at “the other brother” of great […]