Comments on: The origins of the Vancouver Canadians Beerhawker Player of the Year http://natnotes.com/2007/09/08/the-origins-of-the-vancouver-canadians-beerhawker-player-of-the-year/ Accept no imitations! Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:55:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ken McIntosh http://natnotes.com/2007/09/08/the-origins-of-the-vancouver-canadians-beerhawker-player-of-the-year/#comment-784 Ken McIntosh Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:50:39 +0000 http://notesfromthenat.com/?p=776#comment-784 Glad to see both Rob and Dave back. Joey it is great to hear from you. We enjoyed our five years of volunteering because of players like Joey. Made itb to only three games but it's not the same when you don't know the players. I enjoyed Rivercats at Cheney Stadium better. Oz you have done a fabulous job with the Blog although I disagree with some of your comment. Keep up the greatwork Glad to see both Rob and Dave back. Joey it is great to hear from you. We enjoyed our five years of volunteering because of players like Joey.
Made itb to only three games but it’s not the same when you don’t know the players. I enjoyed Rivercats at Cheney Stadium better.
Oz you have done a fabulous job with the Blog although I disagree with some of your comment. Keep up the greatwork

]]> By: Newby http://natnotes.com/2007/09/08/the-origins-of-the-vancouver-canadians-beerhawker-player-of-the-year/#comment-783 Newby Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:10:56 +0000 http://notesfromthenat.com/?p=776#comment-783 I really gotta say though, that when I was awarded the Beer Hawker Player of the Year Award, it was by far the coolest award to recieve. I mean there were CASES of beer stacked up 6' tall and although it's no "TEAM MVP" award that gets hung up in Oakland's Minor League complex at Papago park, it's something that can put a Highlight on a season that was marked up by ASS-HOLES in the front-office pulling stupid stunts, being cheap, and above all, forgetting why they have the complex there in the first place, "FOR US TO PLAY!" It's no secret I hated the front-office president for acting like a Dictator, I still hate that guy and I'll probably do my best to hit him with my car if I ever see him at a Cross-walk. I loved my time in Vancouver, I had a really hard time appreciating it while I was there, but the couple years since leaving there, I've come to appreciate the people (PRESIDENT NOT INCLUDED) in Canada more and more. The bat boys and their families were probably my favorite part of the whole experience, "Bubba" and "William" are just two great kids that I still keep in contact with and recieve E-mails from them and their family's at the very least once a month. Beer Hawker Rob is probably one of the funniest people I've ever been around. Oz, although you've taken your ration of SHIT from most everybody that's ever had their name grace the pages of "NFTN" in a non-congratulatory way, you still do a hell of a lot better job of putting guys names out there than most blogs anywhere. The families up there were great, aside from the few we won't name, but the Macintosh & Law families are by far two of the best families t'o live with. I know the Macintosh's have had their run-in's with the past president and front office people, but holy-shit, you'd have to pay somebody a substantial amount of money to even pretent like that guy was tolerable. His stories about how much of a football guy he was, (HE PLAYED DIVISION 3 FOOTBALL, which is about as cool as saying, I'm the least retarded kid in special-ed). But to close this out, I'd really just like to thank the family's, the Staff (again, FORMER PRESIDENT EXCLUDED), and anybody else who has anything to do with the team up there for what they do for the players, it's not the kind of life people make it out to be and you guys do your best to help the players feel welcome. Thank You again, Newby P.S. If I was in the bullpen while I was in Vancouver, I would have more than broke my fair share of equipment that CHEAP-@$$ would have had to replace. I really gotta say though, that when I was awarded the Beer Hawker Player of the Year Award, it was by far the coolest award to recieve. I mean there were CASES of beer stacked up 6′ tall and although it’s no “TEAM MVP” award that gets hung up in Oakland’s Minor League complex at Papago park, it’s something that can put a Highlight on a season that was marked up by ASS-HOLES in the front-office pulling stupid stunts, being cheap, and above all, forgetting why they have the complex there in the first place, “FOR US TO PLAY!” It’s no secret I hated the front-office president for acting like a Dictator, I still hate that guy and I’ll probably do my best to hit him with my car if I ever see him at a Cross-walk. I loved my time in Vancouver, I had a really hard time appreciating it while I was there, but the couple years since leaving there, I’ve come to appreciate the people (PRESIDENT NOT INCLUDED) in Canada more and more. The bat boys and their families were probably my favorite part of the whole experience, “Bubba” and “William” are just two great kids that I still keep in contact with and recieve E-mails from them and their family’s at the very least once a month. Beer Hawker Rob is probably one of the funniest people I’ve ever been around. Oz, although you’ve taken your ration of SHIT from most everybody that’s ever had their name grace the pages of “NFTN” in a non-congratulatory way, you still do a hell of a lot better job of putting guys names out there than most blogs anywhere. The families up there were great, aside from the few we won’t name, but the Macintosh & Law families are by far two of the best families t’o live with. I know the Macintosh’s have had their run-in’s with the past president and front office people, but holy-shit, you’d have to pay somebody a substantial amount of money to even pretent like that guy was tolerable. His stories about how much of a football guy he was, (HE PLAYED DIVISION 3 FOOTBALL, which is about as cool as saying, I’m the least retarded kid in special-ed).

But to close this out, I’d really just like to thank the family’s, the Staff (again, FORMER PRESIDENT EXCLUDED), and anybody else who has anything to do with the team up there for what they do for the players, it’s not the kind of life people make it out to be and you guys do your best to help the players feel welcome.

Thank You again,
Newby

P.S. If I was in the bullpen while I was in Vancouver, I would have more than broke my fair share of equipment that CHEAP-@$$ would have had to replace.

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