It’s always nice to get a little credit for a good season in the bag, and Baseball America has given four 2006 C’s players exactly that by naming them in the NWL Top 20 Prospects list.
The list, topped by Boise outfielder Tyler Colvin (no argument from me) at #1 and Tri-City starting pitcher Shane [...]

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I have to say, if you’re thinking about setting up a blog, I heartily recommend you try Wordpress as a means to do so. After toiling away with Post-Nuke software (and it’s never-ending lineup of spam comments) for a year, and dealing with Blogger.com’s many downsides for a year before that, I’m astounded at just [...]

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Yesterday, when asked if he missed Frank Thomas, who has proved a model citizen for Oakland after the Chi-Sox front office drove their 16-year hero out of town on a rail, Sox manager Ozzie ‘Dirtball’ Guillen had this to say:
”I don’t care about Frank right now,” Guillen said. ”If Frank gets a base hit, it [...]

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Thanks to those folks who have contacted me to let me know their thoughts on the new digs.
I’m pretty happy with how it’s looking, personally, and am glad the regulars are feeling the same way. There will be a short period where the old content is manually ported across (if any computer boffin out [...]

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We’ve been running this blog for two seasons now, and during that time we’ve had several periods where we have had to move the blog, upgrade the blog, change the blog and, just lately, secure it.
These past few weeks have seen a massive increase in ‘comment spam’ to our site, and being as PostNuke sites [...]

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Let’s be honest – we got pounded by the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes all year long. They brutalized us. When we led the NWL and they started their big run at us (or we started our collapse, however you want to put it), it seemed that every time we won, they did too, and every time we [...]

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News on the wire has it that the ex-Vancouver-based minor league baseball franchise, the Sacramento Rivercats, have signed a four year AAA-extension deal with the Oakland Athletics.
This is big news in that the A’s traditionally only sign two-year deals with minor league teams, and begs the question, will the short-season Vancouver Canadians be offered [...]

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