I arrived at the ballpark this morning and received a message from Matt Sulentic that went as follows:
“I’m so not even close to being a beer league softballer,
man. So I’m gonna punk your ass for saying so, and then afterwards I’m
gonna say, ‘Dude, you just got punked by an 18-year-old.’”
Okay Junior, I hereby accept [...]

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I had to pitch a softball doubleheader last night, so wasn’t around to
witness the ballgame, but my god, the C’s really do seem to have
Spokane’s number. The hapless Injuns have fumbled and bumbled their way
through four games, being massively outhit and comprehensively
outscored, and with their bullpen totally smoked, you’d have to think
today’s NOOOOOONER will be [...]

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One of the early success stories for the Vancouver Canadians this year was Mike Affronti, who came out of the gate like a cannon shot, sucking up groundballs like a vacuum cleaner, and showing great poise with the bat.
Affronti has struggled a little since, perhaps feeling the pressure of 10th round draftee Christian Vitters, who [...]

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JERMAINE MITCHELL PROFILED IN THE SUN:
The Vancouver Sun continues to shame the Province in baseball coverage, with Lyndon Little covering the future of centerfielder Jermaine Mitchell
in this city. The J-Train isn’t much of a chatterbox, so it’s a little
shy on quotes from him, but he did mention during the interview (which
I overheard in the locker [...]

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Continuing the tradition of Spokane and Vancouver being baseball
arch-rivals, last night’s game featured a bench-clearing donnybrook
that saw both teams shoving chests and yelling obscenities, before the
Canadians put the cleaners through the Indians with 11 unanswered runs.
Today, at the Sportsaction Nooner, Matt Sulentic (left) gets a start in right
field, which wouldn’t be notable if not for [...]

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You know, this blog has grown in leaps and bounds over the past couple of seasons, partly because it fills a void the Vancouver sporting press seems unable to deal with, and partly because we’re not afraid to call it how we see it.
Regular readers will know that for the last season plus I’ve been [...]

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You’ve gotta love it when your arch-enemy throws away a perfectly good
ballgame and allows you to turn a bad loss into a crushing win, even
though you’ve given up 7 runs and 4 errors.
Tonight at Nat Bailey Stadium, the Spokane Indians accelerated to a
huge 7-1 lead early on, but following a base-clearing chest-thumping
home plate confrontation [...]

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