John Lowenstein Apathy Club

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John Lowenstein Apathy Club or JLAC is the poster previously known as Craig B and still usually referred to now as JLAC, or other more colorful appellations.

JLAC used to write for Baseball Think Factory in the days when it was just Primer. He stopped because he lost his mind. He still spends too much time at BBTF, wrote occasionally for The Hardball Times, and used to also be found at the Blue Jays blog/discussion site Batter's Box. He is a fan of the Blue Jays, whose ownership tries him severely. He used to be a fan of the Expos, who tried him even more severely.

JLAC's guiding philosophical principle about baseball is that baseball is about suffering.

JLAC participated in many of the early elections for the Hall of Merit, but hasn't voted in quite a while.

Craig's DMB team (the St. Louis Browns) won the 1926 World Series for the Kiddo Davis League at the end of 2004. His team scored a staggering 8 runs a game, easily the most for a team so far.

He used to go by the handle of Craig B and is now regularly going by the handle John Lowenstein Apathy Club for reasons known only to himself.

The John Lowenstein Apathy Club was in fact a real club. When Lowenstein was an underperforming outfielder with the Cleveland Indians, a group of fans approached him and asked whether he would mind if they formed a John Lowenstein Fan Club. Lowenstein, modestly, declined the honor. The fans came back and said, OK, what if we create a John Lowenstein Apathy Club instead? This suited Lowenstein just fine, and the club was born.