Craig Calcaterra
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Craig Calcaterra is an old-timey Primate who is rarely seen these days.
Craig lives in Columbus, Ohio, and made almost as much noise when Ohio State University won the college football National Championship in January 2003 as Shredder did when the Angels won the World Series a few months before.
Craig also wrote some fine articles for Bull Magazine (http://www.bullmag.com/index.php?i=4), that were righteously posted on Baseball Primer.
Craig was also the unwitting progenitor of the Craig Calcaterra's wife running joke.
Craig is an attorney by profession. In the first annual Primey discussion thread, following a tangent related to the then-current Girls Bluc TV show, he wrote the following in response to the proposed law firm of "Treder, Shredder, and Werr":
- I've been practicing law for four years now, and I've never once:
- 1. killed someone with my briefcase
- 2. had a shouting match with the judge
- 3. been in a law firm with unisex bathrooms
- 4. been taken hostage by a client
- 5. been called sexy
- 6. had a case go from complaint to trial in the space of two weeks (or 60 : minutes)
- 7. had an affair with anyone in my office, any of my clients, or anyone whom I later found out was my opposing counsel on a big case.
- This angers me.
- As a result, I propose a new lawyer show in which unattractive young attorneys spend huge chunks of their time posting on baseball websites, cutting and pasting legal memos and passing it off as their own work, and thinking about how to get a job doing anything else but practice law.
- I'll call it: "Midwest Law," and I will be played by the handsome and talented Jake Busey.
Craig posted a lot back in the day. His prolific posting was directly related to the fact that he hated the firm he worked for from 2000 until early 2003. Rather than work, he spent all freaking day on Primer and similar websites. He eventually started using whole work days to write his Bull Magazine column. Experts disagree about whether he would have been fired for laziness and incompetence if he hadn't quit first.
In March of 2003 he (a) quit his job; (b) went on a month long roadtrip; and (c) impregnated the famous Mrs. Calcaterra. He now has a much better job that he actually enjoys and (as of June 3, 2006) a two and a half year-old daughter and a 10.5 month old son). These things keep Craig from wasting his whole day on BTF. He still lurks from time to time.
See also
- Lawyers on BTF
References
- Craig's post (http://web.archive.org/web/20030626181209/www.baseballprimer.com/clutch/archives/00004936.shtml#114) to the Primey thread
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