Eastbay Summer Series Presents Both Sides Featuring Ken Grimes & Sean Taylor

2009 Saw the rise and fall of many players on the tour. Team Bacon Saturday Ken Grimes & Sean Taylor improved all summer long finding them in the semi’s at Summer Pitch 4. These two trained well last year and rumors have it 2010 they plan kick it up a notch. Eastbay Summer Series took some time recently to learn more about these two promising athletes to get both sides of the story.

• EBSS: Last movie you saw?
• KEN GRIMES: Some Barney movie… (laughs)
• SEAN TAYLOR: Invictus
• EBSS: What do you watch on TV?
• KG: Fringe, Grey's Anatomy, Modern Family
• ST: Anything not a reality show
• EBSS: Last person that made you feel nervous?
  KG: Some chic at work...Sarah
• ST: Brian Wilson of the SF Giants

EBSS: Your greatest accomplishment so far?
KG: Cole (his son)
ST: Being a Father (his girls)


EBSS: A talent you wish you had?
KG: Predicting the stock market
ST: I wish I was taller

EBSS: First time you pitched horseshoes?
KG: 7 yrs old in Georgia
ST: 19 years old in Chico

EBSS: One thing you never leave home without?
KG: Shoes (not flip flops)
ST: Footwear

EBSS: Favorite sport to watch on TV?
KG: College Football
ST: Football

EBSS: One sport you would never try?
KG: Cricket
ST: Pole Vault

EBSS: What music do you listen to?
KG: Live 105 (alternative) & some county
ST: Light Classical

EBSS: Ringer Break or Traditional Shoe?
KG: Ringer Break
ST: Ringer Break

EBSS: Favorite horseshoe pitching memory?
KG: 8 ringers & leaner 2009 Summer Pitch 4
ST: Double ringer against a bum in Chico

EBSS: Hardest thing about pitching horseshoes?
KG: Consistency
ST: Keeping hands clean

EBSS: Best place on earth?
KG: In the mountains
ST: Greek Isles

EBSS: How do you prepare the night before a big tournament?
KG:
ST: Consume a pound of Mac & cheese followed by a gallon of milk so my stomach is good and coated for the copious amounts of bacon & beer I will be ingesting on tournament day + 14 hours of sleep minimum.

EBSS: Worst Place on Earth?
KG: Windy places
ST: American idol

EBSS: Somewhere you would like to travel to?
KG: Patagonia
ST: Russia, to drink potato vodka

EBSS: Your favorite thing about throwing horseshoes?
KG: Beer
ST: Camaraderie & be able to improve my accuracy the more I drink

EBSS: Who would play you in a movie?
KG: Johnny Knoxville
ST: Gene Hackmen…if he isn’t available Jeff Mazio

EBSS: Your guilty pleasure?
KG: Doughnuts
ST: One John Mayer song…(refused to name the title)

EBSS: Greatest Horseshoe pitcher of all time?
KG: Gibson
ST: Ken Grimes

EBSS: Favorite subject in school?
KG: Math
ST: Math

EBSS: Favorite meal?
KG: Breakfast
ST: Lunch

EBSS: Favorite drink?
KG: Beer (budlight)
ST: Bombay & Tonic

EBSS: Words to live by?
KG: Always wear shoes because you never know when **** is going down
ST: Everyone looks better in a moustache

EBSS: Who is in your regular crew
KG: Katie, Cole, and school mates
ST: Taylor girls, Grimes, BK, Schribe, Pallini, Biasoti