The ELAINE Show 1: Craig Calcaterra

Jesse here… and, yes, I am an idiot. In fact, I tweeted this just yesterday…

Jesse Spector @jessespector

I have now made two attempts at recording the pilot episode of a podcast in which I literally refer to myself as an idiot in the title. It’s going awesome.

It turns out, there was an issue with the storage on our Google Drive, namely that I needed to delete previous podcast files. Again, I’m an idiot.

I’m not an idiot for the referenced update to the deGrom stat not happening yet. That’s more a result of being under the weather and that we’re gonna have pieces from Roger Cormier and Colleen Sullivan about Jacob deGrom’s return, too… and today happens to be the trade deadline. So, we’ll get to that, but here’s some 1974 Topp from Project ShaqBox to tide you over, and Craig’s piece from 2016 that I came across when researching Tim Johnson.

1974 Topps #554 & #288, Tim Johnson & Gorman Thomas

The card backs, of course, are also golden, and in this case, relevant. Tim Johnson was born in 1939… wait a minute. Okay, Topps also had some idiots on hand, because Johnson was born in 1949, and thus an 18-year-old when he went to spring training in 1968, preparing to lead California League shortstops with 69 DPs. He should’ve used that to motivate his players instead of fake Vietnam stories. Would’ve been nice. But, what do you expect from a seasonal motorcycle salesman, really?

Gorman enjoys billiards.

Also, Craig is correct, and the demonym for Columbus is, indeed, Columbusite, even if it does sound like a disease or a kind of parasite.

And we will soon have an episode of The ELAINE Show with the fantastic Claire de Lune to talk about the Knicks. It’s not like they’re gonna make sense anytime soon. And even more to come in this latest podcast series... enjoy!