JOSH BEAUREGARD  - 2004 Vancouver Canadians OF
During the 2004 ball season, one of my favorite guys to watch at Nat Bailey Stadium was Josh Beauregard. A utility outfielder who seemed to be living the dream with every swing of the bat, he was the guy called upon if the team needed a late inning steal […]

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It always rains hardest after a few weeks of sunshine, and nobody knows that better than Mark ‘Tiger’ Kiger, 2002 Vancouver Canadians infielder and currently unemployed professional baseballer.
Kiger made history this season when he was promoted from AA Midland to the major league Oakland Athletics during the American League Championship Series, taking the spot of […]

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Last year, the Glib Globe and Mail ran a piece about watching a ballgame at Nat Bailey Stadium that indicated that you’d have to be fairly nuts to enjoy yourself there, though it’s nice to know some do. Reaction to the piece in the Canadians community ranged between begrudging acceptance and full-on annoyance, and with […]

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I know that the current system where every comment left on the site is held for moderation before being posted is a bit cludgy. We set things up that way because there are so many spammers around who will fill a site with garbage if there’s no security check in place, but regular readers of […]

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As mentioned on the blog earlier, the Oakland A’s went Rule 5-crazy this season, trading up to the overall first pick in the annual scrub hunt, grabbing Cleveland’s best outfield power-hitting prospect, Ryan Goleski, losing Jared Burton (who had stalled in AA anyway), and then picking up a lefty sidearm reliever in the shape of […]

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JOE NEWBYThe Noob has long been a friend to Notes From The Nat, and we in turn have been one of the 2005 Beer Hawker’s Player of the Year award winner’s biggest cheerleaders. In 2004, he was brought in as a non-drafted free agent by Oakland after failing to get drafted. In 2005, he (along […]

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SCHILLING FOR YOUR THOUGHTS News out of boston indicates that Red Sox starting pitcher Curt "vote for Bush" Schilling has decided to learn Japanese so that he can communicate with his new Japanese teammates, reliever Hideki Okajima and (in all likelihood) Daisuke Matsuzaka.
Maybe Schilling can start off with this phrase - "Warawa fuka sokosoko Iraku […]

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