SB Nation User Blog: Taylor

Diamond last night

Taylor — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:58:06 -0000

First off, apologies for being late, also my father-in-law changed his mind about bringing his camera since we were vulnerable to line drives and he didn't want to risk a $1200 camera. Can't blame him but all I had was an old camera that only has 3x so most shots were from far away (Even though I was sitting at the second row next to the Roughriders dugout).

To the game, Diamond was once again inconsistent, when he missed he missed badly. For a while I thought Ebby Laloosh was on the mound, balls were clearly high, he had one pitch that hopped to the plate, several players had to move to avoid inside pitches and Diamond hit one batter on a 3-2 count. He gave up 3 runs although one wasn't his fault as the third baseman was not in position to field a throw from the outfield. The good part was when Diamond wasn't wild he was very effective, most of his fastballs sat at 90-91 but I did see one at 94, his changeup did garner a lot of whiffs and surprisingly he didn't hesitate to use it as a strikeout pitch. He rarely threw his curve.

He settled down in the second but if he gave up a hit he became unraveled. I lost count of how many pitches he had thrown but save for the second he threw far too many and it could have been worse had the infield not made some nice plays.

Other thoughts:

Props to Andrus for stopping to sign autographs before the game, at least 10-15 kids lined up and he took care of them all. Diamond just walked by and ignored everyone.

Andrus was brought in as a pitch-runner in the ninth and immediately he got inside the pitcher's head (#50), he caused a wild pitch-out (Pitcher threw it in the dirt and the first baseman couldn't field it) then stole third. They had one out and the pitcher was definitely struggling, unfortunately we popped-up and the sacrifice fly we needed came when we had 2 outs...actually Frisco had runners in scoring position in the 9th, 10th and 11th and couldn't score (Reminded me too much of the Rangers early season)

Max Ramirez looks and acts like a beast. Hope he develops. But too many Roughrider players were free-swingers, they definitely need to work on handling pitches.

Frostad likes screwing with kids, at the end of the inning kids would line up and hope a player tosses the ball their way, Frostad waits until the end then tossed it half-way up the section making the kids sprint for it. Dude did it twice, you would think the kids would have learned the first time.

Gonzalez pitched well and shouldn't have had a run counted against him, it was a weak line drive that the second baseman misplayed and ran past (Which allowed the runner on second to run home). Not sure why that wasn't counted as an error

For Midland:

#20, CF better hope A's officials weren't watching the first inning because he let a fly ball drop in front of him. My first thought was that a major leaguer would have made a run for it.

The pitchers must subscribe to the "Everyone plays" rules because no pitcher lasted more than 2 innings (Box score had 7 pitchers in the game). I can't see how their bullpen can handle a season being taxed as much as they were. Everytime I looked they had guys warming up.

If #19 is really 5-10 as listed then I'm 7 feet tall. He looked like your little brother that drags along behind you screaming "Wait up!" up but man he could hit. He only landed one hit but every at-bat resulted in a shot to deep outfield and he was a vacuum at SS. #18 was the one with the stats but #19 looked better.

#30 had one pitch that hit 85, every other pitch was 79 or slower yet he had batters missing badly, especially on key pitches.

And finally, we stayed until the top of the 12th then left, Frisco won the game in the 12th...figures!

Will post what few pictures I had in just a bit.

Going to Roughrider game on Sunday

Taylor — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:24:44 -0000

Sorry if this is in the wrong section but I'll be going to the game Sunday with my father-in-law, anyone know who will be on the mound for us? Also I'm not familiar with the A's system so is there anyone on their team I should be keeping an eye on?

Thanks, and FIL will be taking along a camera w/zoom lens so I'll post any pics taken.

OT - Cowboys draft board for DBs leaked

Taylor — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:46:46 -0000

KTVT Channel 11 did a bit on the Boys and a snipet of their room revealed the following images:

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/2693/draftboard1he9.jpg

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6846/draftboardky0.jpg

So here's pretty much where they rank the DBs

#1 DRC
#2 Mckelvin
#3 Phillips
#4 M.Jenkins
#5 talib
#6 barret or johson its either ARZ St. or Ark ST. tough to see
#7 tracey porter

No big surprises there but you would think with the draft coming up they would be more protective of their hand.

OT -OJ is arrested

Taylor — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:59:51 -0000

According to CNN OJ was arrested for conspiracy to commit armed robbery, armed robbery and armed robbery with a deadly weapon. Per TMZ cops not only found the weapons used but that the other suspect may be ready to turn and testify on Simpson.

Time to lawyer up Simpson, round two is about to begin

Per Galloway Botts is DH tonight

Taylor — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:38:34 -0000

Assuming Sammy grabs a seat, Salty plays at first and Gabbard is inserted into the rotation. If we're lucky he'll have the same kind of production that Cruz is giving us.

So far this is turning out to be a great week!

300 character filler...CJ can make money on the side buying smokes for Beltre, Hilary Duff sucks

LSB gets props from Dallas Observer

Taylor — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:04:35 -0000

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2007/06/our_new_fave_rangers_blog.php

Just want to warn you in case we get an avalanche of non-Ranger fans who wonder why we're so willing to get sucked into having our summers ruined on a yearly basis.

Welcome aboard Robert, be sure to stick around for the fireworks should John Hart get a brilliant idea on who we should pick in the early rounds, history has taught us 1) He'll screw it up and 2) We'll call him everything but a human being

Hicks - Liverpool is just business

Taylor — Tue, 22 May 2007 14:44:30 -0000

http://football.guardian.co.uk/championsleague200607/story/0,,2085147,00.html

Interesting quote from our lovable owner, which I'm sure our friends across the pond will embrace:

"Hopefully the club will have extra cash flow so they can pay us a dividend to do that," Hicks said when asked how the cost of the loan would be met. "If they don't, then it will come from our pockets. But the club will have to have profits sufficient to pay those dividends."

"When I was in the leverage buy-out business we bought Weetabix and we leveraged it up to make our return. You could say that anyone who was eating Weetabix was paying for our purchase of Weetabix. It was just business. It is the same for Liverpool; revenues come in from whatever source and go out to whatever source and, if there is money left over, it is profit"

Translation - Financial Flexibility is on the way!

OT - Jon Kitna trashes Cowboys' defense

Taylor — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:13:16 -0000

http://www.garrettlakers.com/kitna_breakdown.mp3

This is a clip played from Galloway's show this afternoon, in a nutshell Kitna trashes our pass rush, says Newman is no Trufant, Ware is our only pass rusher (That part I agree with) and Bradie James is clueless.

Kitna noted that we play them next year, if we're lucky he'll be the starting QB next year.

Bueno lawsuit against Frankie/Rangers getting ugly

Taylor — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 21:24:18 -0000

Wow, man...wow! Rangers hired a PI to dig up dirt and embarrass the Buenos.

Dallas Observer:
http://www.dallasobserver.com/blogs/?p=1698#more-1698

East Bay Express (Oakland) has the original article:
http://eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-11-08/news/bottomfeeder.html

Gerry Fraley to St. Louis

Taylor — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:43:13 -0000

Apparently following the wife,

http://www.dallasblog.com/dallas-blogs/2006/9/15/dmns-maples-named-st-louis-managing-editor.html#com ments

Pam Maples, 48, has been named managing editor for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was assistant managing editor for projects and investigations at the Dallas Morning News since 2000. Before that, she served as national editor and deputy national editor. Her husband, DMN sports columnist Gerry Fraley, will do freelance work from St. Louis. Both took buyouts from the DMN.