Received an email yesterday that made me a little sad - seems Leanne Cass won’t be with the Vancouver Canadians as Director of Media Relations in 2006.
It was probably bound to happen - most minor league baseball
jobs are pretty transient affairs. You do them one season, you get some
experience, and you either move up […]

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If you attended Vancouver Canadians
games last season, you undoubtedly saw your fair share of crappy
officiating. In fact, you probably saw more crappy officiating than you
saw great officiating. At times, it was dire. At times, it was enough
to make you actively angry. But you dealt with it, because you thought,
these minor league umps make crap money, […]

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I’ve received several inquiries from people who have come here for the first time because of the scoop on Jimmy Shull’s injury, and the general thrust of their questions is "Are you sure?"
Let me say, yes, I am. I received the information from a player, I had it confirmed by another. I’m prepared to say […]

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What was shaping up as an outstanding early season for two of last year’s best Vancouver Canadians
alumni has quickly turned to crap. Though no official announcement has
been made as of yet (not that I can find, anyway), I’m told that 4th
round 2005 draftee Jimmy Shull will sit out the season after blowing
out his elbow, and […]

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Ty Bubalo has a face that people were really getting used to in
Vancouver. The high school draftee had been in the system for four
years, three of which included time in the Great White North, and
though he struggled in the early part of 2005 while hitting through an
injury, the Oakland Athletics decided that the Bubalo’s late […]

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Last year, Frank Martinez hit .167 for Vancouver, got dropped to the
Arizona Rookie League, and hit .205 down there. In short, he stank up
the joint.
Of course, that didn’t stop Oakland from bringing him back
to Vancouver for the playoffs, and it didn’t stop C’s manager Juan
Navarette from starting him, leading Vancouver to a miserable playoff
exit.
Fast […]

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You know the apocalypse is coming when not only does Mike ‘Michiro’
Massaro (pictured left), all 98lbs of him, hits a homerun, and then
Frank Martinez hits one in the same game. But that’s exactly what
happened at the newly renovated Alliant Energy Field in Clinton Iowa
last night as the Kane County Cougars went crazygonuts on the
Lumberkings.
Only two […]

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