Posts by Tim Williams

Tim Williams
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Owner of Pittsburgh Baseball Network and Pirates Prospects.

First Pitch: Day Seventy Three – Jimi Hendrix

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If I think back hard enough, there was music in my life before Jimi Hendrix. For example, one of my more defining albums when I was in middle school was Sixteen Stone by Bush, and I definitely had that CD. I was in middle school though, which meant I had…

First Pitch: Day Seventy Two – Willie Stargell

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Every Friday during Black History Month, I’ll be highlighting a black player who made an impact with the Pittsburgh Pirates. If you missed last week, I started off with Andrew McCutchen. One of the biggest impacts any Pirate has made has been Willie Stargell. Impact is the key word. The…

Williams: Skepticism About the Optimism From MLB Owners

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The MLB owners didn’t have to initiate a lockout the moment the previous Collective Bargaining Agreement expired. They did. The owners could have negotiated anytime in the first six weeks of the MLB lockout. They didn’t. The players submitted two offers during that time, with the owners big move being…

First Pitch: Day Seventy One – Conqueror

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I’m a huge fan of Kang the Conqueror, as you may already know. The Marvel supervillain is expected to be the next Thanos-level big bad in the MCU, and I can’t wait for it to happen. We’ve already seen Kang once in Loki. We’ll see him again in the next…

First Pitch: Day Seventy – Pirates Prospects Updates

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This week at Pirates Prospects, we’re launching a new feature: Daily articles. That’s not really a new feature. That was the lifeblood of the site for its entire existence. I have been determined for years to give you something to read each day, up until the point when I had…

First Pitch: Day Sixty Nine – Nice Week on Pirates Prospects

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This Week on Pirates Prospects is probably my favorite week in the now six weeks that we’ve been doing the weekly format. I’ll let you check out the links to the latest articles below. This week, we’re also launching a new feature: P2Daily. It’s exactly as it sounds: A daily…

First Pitch: Day Sixty Eight – The Pittsburgh Bob Nuttings

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We’re on Jaromir Jagr day of the MLB lockout. This week, MLB owners plan to meet on Tuesday-Thursday in Orlando, which is actually where I live. This week, me and the MLB owners will pool our collective billions of dollars in resources to decide if we’re ever going to yield…

First Pitch: Day Sixty Seven – EndlessPursuit

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I believe we’re all the same, facing the same challenges in life as we pursue different goals. What that means is that there’s no difference on a large-scale level between what I went through to get to this point in my writing career, what you went through to get to…

First Pitch: Day Sixty Six – Killer Mike

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In the middle of season one of the pandemic in 2020, I found myself in a flea market in White Flight, Georgia — located north of Atlanta where the wealthy white people move when black and brown people start to move into their previously all-white neighborhoods. I was trying to…

First Pitch: Day Sixty Five – Andrew McCutchen

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Every Friday on First Pitch, the focus is on baseball memories. Since February is Black History Month, I wanted to use this space to highlight some of the most notable black players in Pittsburgh Pirates history. And who better to start with than Andrew McCutchen? McCutchen is by far the…
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