I’ve just been looking around the minor league baseball website and noticed that a lot of minors teams have promotions that are truly weird. Of course, Canadians fans have long since scratched their heads at some of the between-inning entertainment that they find at Nat Bailey Stadium, which can range from the old reliables such [...]

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"Oh God. What just happened?"

The Vancouver Canadians took on the Salem-Kaizer Volcanoes in
Oregon tonight, and for the first six innings, the C’s were absolutely
dominant. In fact, so many times had the road team stacked the bases
over the first handful of innings, that I started to write the game
report, with the headline "Vancouver cruises to victory."

But [...]

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Melillo burning through California League:
Fans of last year’s crop of Vancouver Canadians will be pleased to hear that Kevin Melillo is going great guns as he rapidly climbs his way through the Oakland organization.
Melillo performed strongly at the Low-A Kane County Cougars earlier this season, hitting a healthy .286 with 8 home runs, which [...]

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With the Canadians now boasting that they’ve won EVERY SINGLE SERIES so far this season, they traveled overnight to Salem-Kaizer, Oregon, for a road series against the in-form Volcanoes, and despite being 14-2 on the road this year, the Volcs were waiting with bats at the ready.
The line-up:
Mike ‘Michiro’ Massaro (CF) .298Chad ‘The Gamer’ Boyd [...]

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The Vancouver Canadians were looking for revenge tonight after last night’s 12-5 loss to Eugene, but coach Juan Navarrete wasn’t prepared to swing for the fences. No, the Mexican League Hall of Famer had a different plan.
Navarrete looked at tonight’s Eugene line-up and thought to himself, "I know their weaknesses, and I shall exploit [...]

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Regular readers will have chuckled a few times in the last week whenever mention of the ‘Bus Trip From Hell’ (also known as Eugene) has come up, mostly because several interviews over the past few days have contained the following exchange:
Me: So who stunk most by the end of it all?Player: Uh… man, that’s a [...]

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According to Scout.com’s Oakland Clubhouse, Oakland’s recently signed high school draft picks have debuted in Arizona, and both had strong outings in limited action. Quoting their piece:

Lansford, Italiano Debut For Rookie A’s
Top draft choices Jared Lansford and Craig Italiano made their much anticipated debuts on Friday night. Both debuts were successful, as each hurler threw [...]

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