Local Sports – Page 3 – The Other Side Dallas

July 13, 2021March 22, 2022

Texas Rangers RBI For Underserved Or Prep Select?

Is the Texas Rangers RBI program for the underserved or just another prep select program is a question some are asking.

This weekend during All Star play at the West Dallas complex one team mate seemed to have a leg up as his mother is the Vice President for the Texas Rangers Foundation and a local select baseball player.

The Returning Baseball to Inner (RBI) Cities program is supposed to help increase minority participation in baseball, but it appears it is being used to defray costs for wealthy families connected to the team.

Jackson Morris is playing for the Texas Cannons baseball club in addition to his time with the Texas Rangers RBI program which provides him free equipment.

It is unclear if this counts against IRS rules for public charities to provide personal benefits, but neither the Texas Rangers nor the Texas Rangers Foundation would return phone calls requesting comment about the program.

Texas Rangers RBI Program

The program itself has not had much success getting out of the RBI playoffs and some blame the program’s director Juan Garciga for building a group of coaches who can neither teach well or push their players beyond natural talent.

The program was also hit recently by allegations one of their coaches was being investigated for masturbating to a young girl.

July 9, 2021March 22, 2022

Rangers Coach Caught With Pants Down

Local officers recently chased a male suspect away fron a preteen girl who appears to be a Rangers coach caught with his pants down and masturbating per police insider.

The youth coach with the MLB RBI program was not at the West Dallas sports complex, but the insider tells Other Side Dallas he was viewing an underage girl approximately seven or eight years old in the vicinity of local security officers who broke a surveillance operation to warn him away from the area.

Edward Taylor Rangers Coach Caught Masturbating Per Report To Rangers

Major League Baseball and Texas Rangers officials were notified earlier this week. As of Thursday they had not responded for comment. The coach, alleged to be Edward Taylor, was identified when he was named in a press release and a neighbor called in the tip.

Rangers Coach Caught With Pants Down – Not The First Incident

The Texas Rangers are hosting a regional Major League Baseball RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner cities) tournament this weekend, but the allegation against one of their coaches is not the first problem this year at the complex.

Earlier this year a head coach was ejected after refusing to leave the field and umpires had to leave the field due to violent behavior by coaches at the Mercy Street Complex.

There areat least two other incidents where coaches threatened one another or acted dangerously during the RBI season.

Issues have been ongoing for years according to one softball coach who refused to be named.

She states every year the Rangers program director, Juan Leonel Gárciga, has to bring up the topic of on field violence, but he never handles it until after an incident and he almost always rewards coaches friendly to him.

In a previous year an umpire on the field told a high school student to “shut the fuck up” per a source employed by the Rangers so behavior control goes beyond coaching and staff, but is more widespread.

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021

Molina Baseball Repeating Bad History?

The Dallas Independent School District Molina Baseball Jaguars may be repeating bad local sports history on the baseball diamond. The program head coach was ejected in the first inning of a contest against the Sunset Bisons this past Saturday. Reports Sunday, say the game was forfeit when the Molina Head Coach Henry Smith refused to leave the field.

The initial issue is not clear, but three sources at the game said umpires declared the game a forfeit. Per high school rules, played under the National Federation of High Schools, a game may be forfeit when a team “delays more than a reasonable amount of time in resuming play, or in obeying the umpire’s order…”.

The Dallas Baseball Umpires Association did not answer questions about the incident or provide background on their umpire crew, but a Dallas ISD Athletics representative on background said “we don’t want adult actions to interfere with kid’s games.” Principals from both Moises Molina and Sunset High Schools did not respond to emails seeking comment.

Dallas ISD Molina Coach Henry Smith also teaches for US Baseball Academy, a program claiming a “commitment to quality instruction at an affordable price. Each location promises the same proven itinerary of drills, a low player-coach ratio, and a teaching staff of top high school and/or college coaches from your local area.”

Playoff Ejections Not A First For Molina Baseball

In 2017, Molina had similar issues when every player on the team was ejected for leaving the dugout during a bench clearing incident. Other Dallas ISD incidents have tended to focus in other sports.

It is not clear if or how UIL will take action on this local sports news, but Other Side Dallas is waiting on responses from several official sources associated with Dallas ISD and Molina baseball.

Two parents complained that Dallas ISD is protecting Molina players despite bench jockeying before, during, and after the game including taunting a disabled spectator.

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020

Sick Football Forces Highland Park ISD Cancellations

Highland Park ISD learned late Wednesday evening they had eleven varsity football players test positive for COVID19 “over the last couple weeks.”

Scrimmages vs. Trinity High School are canceled and the district is consulting with Dallas County Health and Human Services about next week’s opener against Austin Westlake.

Throughout the summer there have been multiple warning signs for organized team sports. Dallas has been a hot zone for COVID19 most of the summer until recently and reports show children can transmit COVID19 to their parents.

Highland Park ISD High School Football and COVID19

Just two weeks ago a team physician for the Penn State Nittany Lions stated that thirty to thirty-five percent of his COVID19 positive players showed symptoms of myocarditis – an inflammation of the heart muscle