Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Catching up with the Pirates’ players and friends in the Venezuelan winter league: Neil Walker completed his contract with Los Bravos de Margarita. He had originally been scheduled to stay through early December, but then had the commitment shortened so that his last game was on Nov 19th. Los Bravos were pleased with Walker’s [...]
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Pirates’ players and friend in Sunday evening’s winter league action: VENEZUELAN LEAGUE Leones del Caracas 8, Bravos de Margarita 6 Margarita scored 4 runs in the 4th, but Caracas came back with 3 runs in the 5th and 4 more in the final two innings to get the come-from-behind win. 3B Neil Walker got the rally [...]
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Pirates’ players and friends in Sunday’s winter ball action – VENEZUELAN LEAGUE Bravos de Margarita 13, Aguilas de Zulia 7 Neil Walker was listed in the original lineup to start at first base, but before Los Bravos even took the field in the bottom of the 1st, their 2B Eider Torres, who had grounded out in [...]
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
"Yellow, black and striped Snake Stars (Astrobrachion constrictum) curled tightly around black coral branches." Photo credit: Neil Walker. Via Found Here .
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By Dejan Kovacevic | 12:40 a.m. Wednesday Chuck Finder had to take a couple days off, and I agreed to cover for him in the unlikely event that anything happened. Oh, well. I do have a few other points I want to make, culled from conversations I had yesterday about the Akinori Iwamura trade, and coming up with a spontaneous set of Morning Links seems as a good an avenue as any: > Do not assume that...
intheboatshed.net (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
This Ebihen 18 sailing boat designed by Francois Vivier was built at the Boat Building Academy at Lyme by Edward Hoogewerf and Neil Walker with help from other Academy students. My thanks to principal Yvonne Green for the photos. The 18ft strip planked sailing boat with water ballast is constructed in glass-sheathed Douglas [...] Francois Vivier’s Ebihen 18 built at the Boat Building Academy...
East End WI (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
There were lots of questions for Neil Walker of LOCOG at our 20 th October meeting about the potential impact of the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, with people interested in transport plan s, minimising disruption for local people, and opportunities for local businesses and volunteers to get involved . There was hardly enough time to answer them all, so lively was the chat. Our thanks go...
Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Alvarez #3, d'Arnaud #13 in BA Top 20 Carolina League Prospects Pedro Alvarez and Chase d'Arnaud were the two Lynchburg Hillcat selections on Baseball America's Top 20 Carolina League prospects. With an eight-team league, landing multiple prospects on this list isn't as difficult as it is in some other leagues--the 2006 Hillcats had three players (Neil Walker, Brett Lillibridge and Brian Bixler), and...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
By Dejan Kovacevic | 3:06 p.m. Monday We mentioned in the Notebook this morning that Ronny Cedeno, Neil Walker, Luis Cruz and Robinzon Diaz will play winter ball, and director of player development Kyle Stark adds a few names from the minors to the list: Ty Taubenheim, Tagg Bozied, Eduardo Cabrera, Yoslan Herrera, Bobby Livingston, Derek Hankins and Rommel Mendoza. Virgil Vasquez and Anthony Claggett...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
By Dejan Kovacevic | 1:11 p.m. Sunday CINCINNATI -- Neal Huntington's final weekly media gathering ... On the season, among the worst in franchise history: "Obviously, nobody's happy. We were projected to lose in the high-90s before the start of the season with that team, and we ended up losing in the high-90s with a very different team that's in place, some of them for years to come. And that...
Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Owens, Sanchez Make BA's Top 20 South Atlantic League Prospects Baseball America included Rudy Owens (#11) and Tony Sanchez (#12) on its list of Top 20 South Atlantic League Prospects, released today. Unlike the short-season lists, this represents a departure from the recent past: the last Top 20 SAL appearance from a Pirate prospect was Andrew McCutchen's #1 in 2006 . Neil Walker was #2 in 2005 (ahead...
Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
More photos » by Tom Mihalek - AP about 1 month ago: Florida Marlins' Chris Coghlan follows through on his three-run triple in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, in Philadelphia. The Marlins won 12-3. (AP Photo/Tom Mihalek) Browse more photos » A few weeks ago, I read an article that talked about how the Pirates are considering...
Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
BA Ranks Pounders #15 Prospect in GCL (h/t B.U.C.C.O. Fans ) BA released its list of the top 20 prospects in the GCL, the first in its annual series of lists of top prospects by league. Brooks Pounders made the list as #15, and Trent Stevenson showed up on a list of 2009 draftees who "played well in the GCL but didn't log enough playing time to qualify for our rankings." Looking at previous...
Bucs Dugout (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Lineup Cincinnati Reds @ Pittsburgh Pirates 09/23/09 7:05 PM EDT Cincinnati Reds Pittsburgh Pirates Drew Stubbs - CF Andrew McCutchen - CF Paul Janish - SS Lastings Milledge - LF Joey Votto - 1B Garrett Jones - 1B Brandon Phillips - 2B Ryan Doumit - C Scott Rolen - 3B Brandon Moss - RF Jay Bruce - RF Ronny Cedeno - SS Laynce Nix - LF Neil Walker - 3B Corky Miller - C Luis Cruz - 2B Homer Bailey - P...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
By Dejan Kovacevic | 11:04 p.m. Monday What has been witnessed over the past month at PNC Park is the worst stretch of baseball the Pirates have played in nearly a century. Well, almost witnessed. A paid crowd of 12,566, with slightly more than 4,900 actually passing through the turnstiles, saw the 11-6, 11-inning loss to the San Diego Padres tonight, the 20th loss in the past game 23 games. Stop...
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