Welcome to my message board.
New member registration has been disabled due to heavy spammer activity. If you'd like to join the board, please email me at MaxDevore at hotmail dot com.
New member registration has been disabled due to heavy spammer activity. If you'd like to join the board, please email me at MaxDevore at hotmail dot com.
Tom Gordon on Tom Gordon
Gordon delights in talking about his title role in the 1999 Stephen King novel, "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon," a story in which he is a pillar of confidence to a 9-year-old girl lost in the woods of Maine.
Written when Gordon was a closer for the Red Sox, it was released as a pop-up children's book last year.
"It was up to her to close, to seal the deal," King wrote, describing the girl's encounter with a bear. "You had to be still inside in save situations, had to pull your cap down low like Tom Gordon, had to look the opposition in the eye and show you were better."
When King was on a book tour a few years ago, he called Gordon and invited him to lunch. Gordon said that he admired King, but that King had not quite captured his character.
Calm on the inside?
Gordon strives to be, but it is not his nature. Gordon has lasted this long on nervous energy, and it will probably always be his fuel.
"I wouldn't change a thing," he said. "To be aggressive and to be excited, that's a wonderful thing in this game.
"When you're scared, that's something different. But to be excited and aggressive, that's a wonderful thing."
Written when Gordon was a closer for the Red Sox, it was released as a pop-up children's book last year.
"It was up to her to close, to seal the deal," King wrote, describing the girl's encounter with a bear. "You had to be still inside in save situations, had to pull your cap down low like Tom Gordon, had to look the opposition in the eye and show you were better."
When King was on a book tour a few years ago, he called Gordon and invited him to lunch. Gordon said that he admired King, but that King had not quite captured his character.
Calm on the inside?
Gordon strives to be, but it is not his nature. Gordon has lasted this long on nervous energy, and it will probably always be his fuel.
"I wouldn't change a thing," he said. "To be aggressive and to be excited, that's a wonderful thing in this game.
"When you're scared, that's something different. But to be excited and aggressive, that's a wonderful thing."
Comments
"They want me to think about locations,'' she said. "I'm thinking Fenway Park.''
And why not? It's proven to be Hollywood friendly!
The horror flick about a little girl who gets lost in the woods and whiles away the hours listening to Red Sox games on her Walkman will be directed by the equally creepy George Romero of ``Night of the Living Dead'' fame. After Boston, the crew will head for Maine.
>>> source
''But you never know what's going to happen next,'' Romero warns. ``If Land of the Dead scores and the studio wants a sequel, that will probably trump everything else.''
Now, I can't say for sure that Gordon, who does become a free agent after this season, will sign on with the Sox this offseason. But he has already agreed to don his former team's garb for at least one day for the sake of cinematic glory.
Gordon has told producers of the impending film, and Stephen King novel, “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon” that he would make himself available to come to Fenway Park and wear the Red Sox uniform at least one more time.
Originally, Gordon was going to switch sides and put on the Sox gear when the Yankees come to town in late September. But because the movie's pre-production was thrown for a loop (young actress Dakota Fanning recently backed out of portraying the lead role), Gordon, who played with the Sox from 1996-99, will have to wait for his blast from the past.
>>> Source
First post Hello everyone!