She's Ready to Play Baseball:

a blog of women's baseball. Yes, baseball.

Lairderg

Lairderg
Location
Turnersville, New Jersey, United States
Birthday
June 26
Bio
Yes, that's me, ringing up a little mojo for my Fightin' Phils during the 2008 World Series. I grew up, in 1950s and 60s suburbia, with the heart of a frontierswoman. I grew up a Catholic with the heart of a seeker of the Divine Feminine. I grew up a girl and a woman, when being either "just wasn't good enough," with the heart of a warrior priestess of a warrior goddess. My favorite television shows are (from the mid 90s) Profiler, (from the early 21st Century) Witchblade, and (now) Saving Grace, so you know where my mind still is. I was a journalist before big advertising bullies started owning the media and quit (after a long, loud battle) when I saw what they were doing. I was the oldest, and the most eccentric, of seven children in an Irish American family. I married, divorced, and now have a significant other. I am a "budding" herbalist, a mother of four avians (My poor Keenan died recently.), a guerilla gardener, an adjunct professor of pre-composition college writing, a poet, a fiction writer, a creative non-fiction writer, a feature writer, and now a player and a blogger of women's baseball.

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March 30, 2011 01:19PM
“OMG! I can hear her voice saying all this, too, which is REALLY scary, but the laughter jostled it all out! Great Stuff!!”
About: President Palin’s First Ten Days in Office
March 05, 2011 01:18PM
“Wow! I have a timid hope we can still get out of this, but thank you for the warning. Of course, the woman in our world has always been starved, either…”
About: Starved for Democracy
February 02, 2011 06:16PM
“How many times do we hear of male athletes (especially, but not exclusively, football players) who molest and rape women and get away with it, even wit…”
About: Dear Congress, Don't Invalidate Me Further
February 02, 2011 06:00PM
“This "idea" is crap. Even prolife people who have a brain in their heads should be outraged: if congress redefines rape, then what keeps loca…”
About: The Politics of Rape
January 28, 2011 10:43AM
“I'm so glad you wrote this. I agree, and I intend to do whatever in my power (not much, grant you) to help this nation "Do Big Things."”
About: Mr. Obama’s Vision
January 27, 2011 05:03PM
“Thanks, umpirepb! Wish I could do more right now. I hope I can get my book done soon and get even more information out.”
About: Asia Insurance Phoenix Cup Women's Baseball begins
January 26, 2011 12:30PM
“Sorry I took so long with this. Counting the days until the baseball season ...”
About: Japanese women undefeated, take gold in Phoenix Cup
January 26, 2011 12:23PM
“Sounds like one of my suburban kids. God or Goddess help us all!”
About: State of the Union: The Undecided Voters' Rebuttal
January 26, 2011 11:18AM
“Yeah, it is a shame. It's like there's a blanket of silence over the fact that women have been playing BASEBALL since the game began, and we are still…”
About: Asia Insurance Phoenix Cup Women's Baseball begins
January 24, 2011 12:02PM
“Yeah, but often the "broadcasting" networks often parrot Fox Noise, unfortunately. Anyway, great graphic, and I agree completely!”
About: Keith, we hardly knew ye.
January 22, 2011 02:10PM
“Never got the chance to play real, overhand hardball until I was 52 years old, but the women of the Philadelphia Women's Baseball League, as women from…”
About: Baseball is a Simple Game--but It's Too Damned Expensive
January 22, 2011 11:45AM
“I was going to write about this, but your blog is better than anything I could say. The good ones are always a handful because they do not think in cor…”
About: Keith Olbermann Out~WTF
January 21, 2011 04:37PM
“Sorry for this late comment. Wish I had read it when you sent it out. Thanks for this.”
About: OWN IT
January 21, 2011 03:07PM
“I was just thinking about this today, even though I don't watch the shows you mentioned. Just like many people think we are in a post-racial age becaus…”
About: Teen Moms: The Seedy Underbelly of an Identity Crisis
November 10, 2010 10:21AM
“Thank you, aim. Since Monday, Ben has received numerous comments from the people he covered, and all of them have been incredulous at his release as we…”
About: Putting a real face on Gannett's November layoffs
November 06, 2010 02:17PM
“My problem with this is the contract that calls for the commentators to ask permission to make personal contributions. While this may be a way to insur…”
About: Should Olbermann's bosses suspend themselves?
October 28, 2010 01:55PM
“Dr. Spudman44: Has anyone ever said that women could've been the Antichrist? Considering that her "philosophy" seems so OPPOSITE of the words…”
About: Rand Paul, a man with a message.
October 26, 2010 12:49PM
“Thank you. In New Jersey, we can't vote early, but I will follow your advice about making election day, Nov. 2 for me, a special day and remembering th…”
About: Voice
October 21, 2010 01:27PM
“Edit: to a well-bought White House.”
About: The First Rule of Teaching: Do No Harm
October 21, 2010 01:26PM
“"Burnout isn't their fault, or at least not entirely. The educational system is overburdened – we all know that – and often more of a…”
About: The First Rule of Teaching: Do No Harm
October 14, 2010 12:48PM
“Faith, I hear you. The way I look at it is that dollar bills don't have arms and legs and can't walk into voting booths, but people can, and we NEED to…”
About: We the Employers: Fire the Party of NO!
September 21, 2010 12:19PM
“Sorry, f'ing computer on the fritz; or is it Something Else? Anyway, witches are NOT Satanists. Witches believe in Nature as represented by a God and a…”
About: Should we put O'Donnell's youthful indiscretions aside?
September 21, 2010 12:12PM
“Hold her feet to the fire, (witch)ever fire! That's only partly a joke. Having studied the Craft, I have found that 1) witches are NOT”
About: Should we put O'Donnell's youthful indiscretions aside?
September 18, 2010 12:31PM
“I know there's no easy solution to this. However, as one solution, we need to recreate our manufacturing base. I'm hoping that we can retool THIS natio…”
About: US Census report: Poverty levels spike to record highs
September 18, 2010 12:10PM
“I'm glad we've figured out that the Tea Partiers are finger puppets for the Koch brothers and their billionaire friends--and right now, having understo…”
About: For Immature Audiences Only
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