After walking through the doors of Nat Bailey for the first time in over 7 months Friday, and buying the new and very stylish black Canadians hat, I watched the UBC Thunderbirds take on NAIA powerhouse Lewis-Clark State.  Was it Northwest League baseball? No.  But it was certainly worth the 5 dollar admission.  DH/P Scott […]

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After the 2007 visit of the Famous Chicken to Nat Bailey Stadium was dubbed ‘his final’, the Chicken will cluck once more, heading to Nat Bailey on July 23rd, when the Canadians play against the Yakima Bears.  Maybe this will be his actual ‘farewell tour’, but for the sake of Canadians fans, let’s hope not.  […]

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For the last few days, Vancouver Canucks hockey fans have been falling over themselves wondering what the new GM, Mike Gillis, is going to point to as his executive philosophy going forward. 
Will he be an attack-oriented GM? Will he be a grit-meister? Will he look for the team to play a speed game? Will he […]

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Ever play Zero Wing? Perhaps the world’s most famous piece of Japanglish came from that crappy old Sega Mega Drive game. "All your base are belong to us" eventually became an internet phenomenon.
Anyways, I was bored today, and whenever that happens and Photoshop is within reach… well…
 

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$18m for 29 home runs; that’s what it cost the Toronto Blue Jays to rent Frank Thomas for one season.
Thomas, the shoe-in Hall-of-Fame slugger who talked his way out of Chicago before coming to Oakland for pennies on the dollar, helped propel the Athletics to an unlikely appearance in the 2006 ALCS. He subsequently parlayed […]

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I once read somewhere that poodles require you to teach them a trick four times, on average, before they’ll remember the instruction. A pug, being less smart by a solid margin, requires you to repeat that same lesson 96 times before they’ll learn it. A mildly intelligent human will generally need to hear a lesson […]

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It was an early-bird look at the 2008 schedule, when the Canadians released their ‘Schedule Preview’ back in October, but the real thing is out, and she’s a beauty.
Included in the 2008 schedule are seven weekday Nooners, four Sunday Nooners (including the final home game of the season) and a June 17th Opening Night, as […]

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