Advance tickets available for Friday's tripleheader
11:42 PM Central Standard Time on Monday, November 20, 2006
By RANDY JENNINGS / The Dallas Morning News
Tickets for Friday's Class 5A area-round playoff tripleheader at Texas Stadium are $6 for student and $8 for adults in advance from the participating schools or school districts through Wednesday. Tickets at the gate are $10. A ticket is good for all three games. The parking fee at Texas Stadium is $5.
The lineup: Southlake Carroll (11-0) vs. Euless Trinity (11-0), 1 p.m.; Cedar Hill (11-0) vs. Hebron (10-1), 4 p.m.; South Grand Prairie (10-1) vs. Colleyville Heritage (8-3), 7 p.m.
***Southlake Carroll is Ranked 2nd in the Nation and Euless Trinity is Ranked 20th in the Nation***
***SGP won the first round playoff game 24-21***
***Southlake Carroll won in the first round 35-0 over Lewisville***
***Euless Trinity won in the first round over Arlington Martin 41-0***
The Dallas Mavericks have bounced back with seven straight after losing their first four. The real test to see if they are REALLY back in this comes after Thanksgiving when they play San Antonio. We’ll see.
Who would have thought the Cowboys would be doing this well after all the changes and mistakes early on in the season? No Drew, the kicker isn’t kicking as good as promised… and still, the ‘boys top the Colts and are now tied for first in their division with Romo at QB. Stranger things, I guess.
The Rangers are already making noise in the free agent market. Frank “The Cat” Catalanotto is signed. The Rangers also added two to the forty-man roster who haven’t been in the US in a few years, but hopefully will be stateside this year (at least one of them). Gary Matthews has left for another club, as has DeRosa. The Rangers lost out in Matsuzaka and Thomas searches. Now the focus comes to Zito. The Rangers are strongly focusing on this guy, as they should. I get an email from the Dallas Morning News about the Texas Rangers… they requested questions, so I sent them four. They answered one in the email:
Q: Barry Zito: What will it take to get him here and with his arm diminishing and him being a fly-ball pitcher, would he really be a good fit?
Jonathon Ray
GRANT: Zito’s velocity has diminished somewhat and you have to wonder if all those pitches he's thrown over the last five years (he's led the majors in pitches thrown) will cause a breakdown sometime in the not-too-distant future. And, yes, he's a fly-ball pitcher, which in general would seem to be a poor fit in Arlington.
On the other hand, Zito is a former Cy Young Award winner who is not yet 30 years old and who has an 11-1 record and 3.75 ERA in 15 career starts in Arlington. There is nothing in his past performance in Texas to suggest he's a bad fit.
Zito is going to cost upwards of $15 million per year for at least five years. I think it might take six at this point to get him. That's a lot of cash and a lot of risk, but if you can get Zito to go with Kevin Millwood and another established pitcher or two (think Vicente Padilla, Ted Lilly or Jeff Suppan and a guy acquired in a trade), that's a contending first four. And it puts just about everyone into the spot in which they belong.
***So… I take Trinity to upset Southlake Carroll***
***Mavs outlast the Spurs in a game that goes to the wire***
***Cowboys win on Thanksgiving***
***SGP knocks out Heritage***
***Rangers sign Zito***
I agree with Evan Grant, but I am still a little weary about Zito in Ameriquest for a long period of time… It doesn’t mean I don’t want him hear, I’m just weary.
11:42 PM Central Standard Time on Monday, November 20, 2006
By RANDY JENNINGS / The Dallas Morning News
Tickets for Friday's Class 5A area-round playoff tripleheader at Texas Stadium are $6 for student and $8 for adults in advance from the participating schools or school districts through Wednesday. Tickets at the gate are $10. A ticket is good for all three games. The parking fee at Texas Stadium is $5.
The lineup: Southlake Carroll (11-0) vs. Euless Trinity (11-0), 1 p.m.; Cedar Hill (11-0) vs. Hebron (10-1), 4 p.m.; South Grand Prairie (10-1) vs. Colleyville Heritage (8-3), 7 p.m.
***Southlake Carroll is Ranked 2nd in the Nation and Euless Trinity is Ranked 20th in the Nation***
***SGP won the first round playoff game 24-21***
***Southlake Carroll won in the first round 35-0 over Lewisville***
***Euless Trinity won in the first round over Arlington Martin 41-0***
The Dallas Mavericks have bounced back with seven straight after losing their first four. The real test to see if they are REALLY back in this comes after Thanksgiving when they play San Antonio. We’ll see.
Who would have thought the Cowboys would be doing this well after all the changes and mistakes early on in the season? No Drew, the kicker isn’t kicking as good as promised… and still, the ‘boys top the Colts and are now tied for first in their division with Romo at QB. Stranger things, I guess.
The Rangers are already making noise in the free agent market. Frank “The Cat” Catalanotto is signed. The Rangers also added two to the forty-man roster who haven’t been in the US in a few years, but hopefully will be stateside this year (at least one of them). Gary Matthews has left for another club, as has DeRosa. The Rangers lost out in Matsuzaka and Thomas searches. Now the focus comes to Zito. The Rangers are strongly focusing on this guy, as they should. I get an email from the Dallas Morning News about the Texas Rangers… they requested questions, so I sent them four. They answered one in the email:
Q: Barry Zito: What will it take to get him here and with his arm diminishing and him being a fly-ball pitcher, would he really be a good fit?
Jonathon Ray
GRANT: Zito’s velocity has diminished somewhat and you have to wonder if all those pitches he's thrown over the last five years (he's led the majors in pitches thrown) will cause a breakdown sometime in the not-too-distant future. And, yes, he's a fly-ball pitcher, which in general would seem to be a poor fit in Arlington.
On the other hand, Zito is a former Cy Young Award winner who is not yet 30 years old and who has an 11-1 record and 3.75 ERA in 15 career starts in Arlington. There is nothing in his past performance in Texas to suggest he's a bad fit.
Zito is going to cost upwards of $15 million per year for at least five years. I think it might take six at this point to get him. That's a lot of cash and a lot of risk, but if you can get Zito to go with Kevin Millwood and another established pitcher or two (think Vicente Padilla, Ted Lilly or Jeff Suppan and a guy acquired in a trade), that's a contending first four. And it puts just about everyone into the spot in which they belong.
***So… I take Trinity to upset Southlake Carroll***
***Mavs outlast the Spurs in a game that goes to the wire***
***Cowboys win on Thanksgiving***
***SGP knocks out Heritage***
***Rangers sign Zito***
I agree with Evan Grant, but I am still a little weary about Zito in Ameriquest for a long period of time… It doesn’t mean I don’t want him hear, I’m just weary.
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