The powers that be in big baseball this week came to terms on a new labour agreement (that’s right, I said ‘labour’ - we use the Queen’s English up here, kids), and surprisingly enough, there was precious little argument from either side.
There are several changes to the way baseball does business from now on, such [...]

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Kenny Rogers, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, had brought into this year’s major league playoffs the highest ever career playoff ERA. He was, for all intents and purposes, a playoff loser of the highest level. A choker. Which seemed kind of odd, since through the season, he was normally pretty tough to hit.
Well now it [...]

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It’s never too early to start thinking about baseball, especially when there have been rumors of the league radically changing structure next season, so the news today that the C’s have announced their ‘07 schedule in the Northwest League is confidence-boosting.
Here’s the official release:
Vancouver, BC – The Vancouver Canadians are proud to
announce the release of [...]

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One of the questions I often ask Vancouver Canadians players each year is, "how awesome is it to be able to play yourself in a video game?" The answer, always, without hesitation, is "Awesome. It’s so freakin’ awesome!"
But clearly not everyone feels that way. Ethan Albright is listed in the latest incarnation of John Madden’s [...]

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The Best Damn Sports Show Period is perhaps the best show on TV with the word ‘period’ in its title. Other than that, it sits pretty low on the scale of all things must-see, at least as far as I’m concerned, and of late they’ve started on the VH1 ‘list show’ route, with such outings [...]

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The loss of nearly every MLB-affiliated professional baseball team in Canada (we’re down to the rookie league Vancouver Canadians and major league Toronto Blue Jays, at present) has been written about in these pages many times of late, but every time I’ve mentioned the morass, I’ve noted that it’s not the lack of passion Canadians [...]

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I guess his VORP dropped.
A few days ago, the Oakland A’s ended their 2006 season as one of the four top teams in Major League baseball. Also a few days ago, I wrote of how Oakland GM Billy Beane landed a great coup in letting Macha go last year when he wanted more money, only [...]

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