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Bringin' the Thunder

July 13, 2009

     An ongoing feature on the TBBL web site will include monthly interviews with some of our league members.  In our fifth installment, the TBBL recently caught up with Matt Maher of the Midlothian Mashers.  Please enjoy the interview below:

 

TBBL: Hello and thanks for taking the time to be interviewed. How are you doing today?

Doing great. 

TBBL: Please tell us a little bit about yourself. Married? Kids? Where did you grow up, what college did you attend (if you did), and where do you see yourself in 10 years from now?

I’ve been married for almost 14 years.  I have two children ages 6 and 8.  I grew up in Richmond, VA and graduated from VCU.  In 10 years I hope to have kids ages 16 and 18 and to have been married for almost 24 years. 

TBBL: Since you've been a member of the Thunder Bay Baseball League, your team has been a perennial playoff team each year.  What is your best memory of your team from any of your playoff teams?

My playoff luck has been horrific so the highlight was winning a one game playoff at the end of my second season to actually get into the postseason. 

TBBL: Do you have any players on the trading block currently?

No one specifically.  I’m in a tough spot because I don’t really want to trade away anything to get better because there’s no way to top the Halos, but I’m good enough not to trade away guys for the future.

TBBL: What is the defining moment -- the top highlight -- of your franchise these past few years? And what is the absolute worst moment -- the top lowlight?

The top highlight is just building an expansion team into a playoff team after one year.  It looks like this could be my 3rd straight playoff team.

The lowlights are easy.  My first year in the playoffs I blew a 3-1 lead in the first round, then I topped that last year by blowing a 3-0 lead.  I’m sort of the anti-redsox.

TBBL: If there was one trade that you could take back, which trade would that be? And what's the best trade you've made to date?

I haven’t traded much so I guess trading a high draft pick for Freddy Garcia (though he did help me make the playoffs). 

The best was trading Aubrey Huff for a 1st rounder (Bobby Jenks) and B.J. Upton.

TBBL: Shifting to the MLB now, who's your favorite team and why?

The New York Yankees.  I was 9 years old when my parents let me stay up to watch Game 6 of the World Series…Reggie hit 3 bombs and I was hooked! 

TBBL: Which baseball stadiums have you visited and which is your favorite?

Let’s see I’ve been to Memorial and Camden, the Vet and Citizen’s Bank, Riverfront and The Great American Ballpark, PNC, PacBell, Fulton Co, Stadium, Yankee Stadium, Fenway, & the stadium in Oakland.  

It’s hard to pick a favorite, my top 3 would be Yankee, PNC, and Camden.

 TBBL: Who is your favorite baseball player, both current and all time?

My all-time favorite player is Reggie Jackson, I actually went to Cooperstown to see him inducted into the HOF.  My favorite current player is ARod.  I guess you could say I like the guys that other fans love to hate. 

TBBL: What is your favorite movie of all time?

Probably Hoosiers. 

TBBL: Tell us something about yourself that may surprise us.

I’m the principal of an elementary school. 

TBBL: Who do you have the biggest rivalry with in the TBBL and why?

I’m not sure I have a big rival yet, maybe Jersey and Salem.

 

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