Tom Williamson's MLB Baseball Fan Profile
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Who am I?
As you may have noticed, my name is Tom. I am an English Major at Bridgewater State College. I love baseball and football. Always have, always will.
I play Ultimate Frisbee and I am a captain on my team at Bridgewater.
I like to write.
In addition to writing for this site, I write the scripts for the show portion of the website surewinner.tv.
I have my own blog
I am working on another blog effort, called baseballshmaseball.com.
And I write various forms of fiction.
I also like making movies, and have recently been on a bit of a contest kick.
If you want to know anything else, leave a comment, and I'll get back to you. Eventually, I'll set up an email for those who are reading my stuff to write to me, but until I get to that point just leave it here.
Have a good one. And, sorry for the jumbled nature of this information. I usually have a hard time talking about myself, but I'm trying.
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Red Sox Home Opening Day 2008 posted on 04/09/2008
Yesterday was the Red Sox home opener, a welcome sight for the thousands of Red Sox fans and for the players themselves who had just completed an 18 day road trip that brought them to Japan, California and Canada and saw them open the season with a 3-4 record. For me this was a bit of a sad day, the first time in the past seven years that I was not attending the game at the ballpark, but for Red Sox Nation it was day that lived up to the hype.
First there was the ring ceremony. This was an event for the ages. I was present for the 2005 ring ceremony when the Red Sox opened their season at home, something that seemed hard to top; first world series in 86 years, ceremony taking place in a game against their biggest rivals, but from what I heard of yesterdays ceremonies they were at least just as good. There were flags from 62 nations to symbolize just how far Red Sox Nation has extended in the past few years. There were champions from other Boston teams: Bill Russel, Bobby Orr, and Tedy Bruschi. There were the World Series Rings of course. But probably the most touching thing was there was Bill Buckner. Buckner was chosen to throw out the ceremonial first pitch, and was announced to a standing ovation. Red Sox fans, and the media have finally forgiven the poor for the mishap that was scrutinized for 18 years. He was cheered, he was respected. And I almost forgot, the lifelong Red Sox, 88-year-old Johnny Pesky, helped to raise the World Series banner up the center-field flag pole.
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Mirabelli Staying in Boston posted on 01/11/2008
Today the Boston Red Sox and Doug Marabelli have agreed on a deal that will bring him back for an 8th season with the team. The dealing is pending a physical, and has not been finalized, but it looks as though he will be back to catch knuckleballer Tim Wakefield once again.
Marabelli will be taking a pay cut from last years salary of $750,000. His new deal calls for a base salary of $550,000, but he can make more than double that in bonuses. His potential bonuses are the following:
1-$275,000 in roster bonuses
2-$150,000 in conditioning bonuses
3- $1.25 million in performance bonuses (games and games started)
The 37 year catcher originally joined the Red Sox in June of 2001. He was acquired from Texas June 12, 2001 in a trade from the Texas Rangers in exchange for minor league right hander, Justin Duchscherer. The trade was made necessary when Jason Varitek broke his elbow diving for a foul ball. Aside from a brief stint with San Diego, Marabelli has been with Boston ever since.
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No news is good news for the Red Sox posted on 01/10/2008
The past week has been relatively quiet in the world of the Boston Red Sox. Sure, the team was in the headlines concerning Jim Rice and his 14th attempt at becoming a Hall of Famer but besides that very little has happening in Red Sox Nation. But besides that let's run down what other news has happening concerning the Red Sox.
Former owner Edward "Buddy" LeRoux, died of natural causes this week but his name is not one of prominence in Red Sox Nation, he was only a part time owner during the Yawkey Era. He was probably more important for his role as a trainer from 1966-74 and as the team's vice president in 1978 and 79.
Over the weekend, Boston's Hot Stove, Cool Music was once again a success. It is estimated that the event raised $200,000 putting the total for the event after 8 years to approximately $1.5 million. All of the profits go to charities.
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Award Season Rewards Patriots Perfect Regular Season posted on 01/10/2008
This past week the awards for the regular season were handed out in the NFL. The New England Patriots were well represented. They picked up, NFL MVP, AP Offensive Player of the Year, AP Coach of the Year and five AP All Pro First Team spots plus four other players were named to the All Pro Second Team.
Tom Brady received the most recognition capturing the MVP and Offensive Player of the Year Award, plus being named to the All Pro team. This season Brady established established career highs for completions (389), completion percentage (68.9), passing yards (4,806), passer rating (117.2), and touchdown passes (50), certainly a season worthy of the recognition he received. He was not however, a unanimous winner in the MVP nor was he a unanimous selection to the All Pro Team. One vote split his votes between Brady and Brett Farve. The Patriots did one unanimous selection to the All Pro team. That was Randy Moss. LaDainian Tomlinson was the only other unanimous selection. The other All Pro's for the Patriots were: First Team-Matt Light, Mike Vrabel, and Assante Samuel; Second Team-Wes Welker, Dan Koppen, Vince Wilfork and Logan Mankins. Last year the Patriots did not have any player on the All Pro First Team.
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Clement makes 2 former Red Sox in Rotation posted on 01/04/2008
Yesterday the St. Louis Cardinals signed former Red Sox right hander Matt Clement to a one year deal with an option for a second year. This move gives the St. Louis Cardinals two starters who were members of the Red Sox within the past six months. The other pitcher is Joel Pineiro. Pineiro was acquired by the Cardinals this past July in exchange for a minor leaguer.
He enjoyed his time in the National League and pitched his best baseball in years finishing the year with a sub 4 ERA as a starter. Over the past few seasons he had struggled while with the Mariners as a starter and then was inconsistent with the Red Sox as a reliever. The Sox eventually sent him to the minor leagues where he was playing at the time of the trade.
Clement, meanwhile, has not pitched in a major league game since the 2006 season following major arm surgery. He should be ready to pitch with out holding back at the start of spring training and is a legitimate option to fill one of the rotation positions come the start of the season. This may change as the season goes on, as St. Louis has two star pitchers of their own, Mark Mulder, and Chris Carpenter, who are due back at some point in 2008.
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