This month North By Northwest was showing at our local theater but my wife and I decided we would make an at home date night out of watching it while our toddler was being babysat in the other room rather than risk going out during the recent blackouts in California. L...

With the Rays and A's colliding in the AL Wild Card Game this year I felt it was only appropriate to revisit this post from May of 2018 about the sabermetric strategies of the teams from Oakland and Tampa Bay that inspired books about some of the best runs in the histo...

The movies It and It Chapter Two are the story of a supernatural clown monster that comes back every twenty-seven years to kill left handed guitarists from the Pacific Northwest. Okay, maybe it isn't about the 27-Club, but it is the 27-years-later conclusion to the mov...

The Family Plot and Jackie Brown are reflections of noir films with their own touches of humor from the great directors Alfred Hitchcock and Quentin Tarantino. They are movies that are the products of liberation in cinema, progressing years and decades away from the Ha...

Here is a collection of the MLB players who have proven themselves to be Good Enough!

C

Moe Berg

Bill Freehan

Elston Howard

Javy Lopez

Thurman Munson

Jorge Posada

Jason Varitek

1B

Dolph Camilli

Jeff Conine

Prince Fielder

Andres Galarraga

Jason Giambi

Mark Grace

Scott Hatteberg

Keith He...

The biggest star in the history of baseball, Babe Ruth, was known for drinking, smoking, and competitive eating level of consumption of hot dogs. From the earliest days of the game baseball was known as a sport that fat slobs could excel and a ballpark was not a place...

This month I watched an old favorite from Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz (2007) and an old movie I had never seen before from Alfred Hitchcock, To Catch a Thief (1955). I really didn't know anything about To Catch a Thief except that Steven Soderbergh used it for inspiration f...

The second base position is one of the least represented in the Hall of Good Enough. It’s the one position that has the least expectation in all of baseball, kind of like a punter in football, but with actual value. It is unlikely second base prospects will be drafted...

Around the time that Stan Lee died Filmstruck posted a short documentary about his relationship with french director Alain Resnais whose career in feature films ran from the 1950’s to the 2010’s. Resnais was considered a rather serious director whose films Hiroshima Mo...

Last year was a great year for movies, however, for the most part the movies that I like the most missed out on awards and nominations even though many of them were prestige films. Last year I extended my list to 30 movies, and this year I'm going to reel that back in...