One what turned into (at the last moment) an incredible night for baseball, 2371 Canadians fans turned up at The Nat (many of them donning mullet wigs in honour of a Canadian Cancer Society fundraiser that brought in about $500) to welcome the C’s home from a conquering tour of Yakima, eager for more of […]

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Late post-game report will be up around noon, along with info on the new C’s head honcho, but for now, enjoy the fact that we’ve got a second rounder headed to The Nat.
According to the San Luis Obispo Tribune:
Cal Poly standout hitter Grant Desme agreed to undisclosed contract terms with the Oakland Athletics on Friday.
Desme, […]

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Those of you who are on the cutting edge of the information world will already know a lot of this, but I figured it was time to catch up on some changes in the minor league system as they pertain to ex-Vancouver players.
* Dallas Braden is in the Oakland major league squad again. He’s working […]

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Michael Richard has been playing of late. And stealing of late. In fact, he’s been playing and stealing a lot of late, so tonight he was given the lead-off role for the Vancouver Canadians against NWL East rivals, the Yakima Bears.
And, interestingly, he made great use of that chance to lead, by basically taking […]

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Short game report tonight, and it happened to be one in which the excitement peaked early, with 12 runs scroing in the opening two innings.
In the 1st, after Sulentic, Doolittle and Hamblin loaded the bases with a fielder’s choice, a walk and a single, Corey Brown [seen left] strode to the batter’s box and […]

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Remember how yesterday I told you there was weirdness afoot at the Canadians front office?
Well, here’s what I was talking about:
CANADIANS MAKE
PAIR OF FRONT OFFICE MOVES
Jake
Kerr, Managing Partner of the Vancouver Canadians, announced today, that Aileen
Mcmanamon and Bill Posthumus would be leaving the club.
"Aileen
has been a great help as we got ready for […]

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Remember how, last year, the NWL East was so cod-ordinary that all it took for an eastern team to make the NWL Championship series was being 5 games under .500?
Everything old is new again, as the C’s tonight dropped their first game since opening day to go to a 6-2 record, which is fantastic… except […]

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