Yes, tonight’s games are underway, rain or not.
And since it’s a doubleheader, if you leave for the stadium now, you’ll still see a good 10 innings or so of ball.
UPDATE: The rain isn’t letting up, so game two has been called off and game 1 shortened at 6 innings. C’s had time enough to win […]

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Work continues to go on behind the scenes to restore the Notes From The Nat archives - this past week we’ve manually reposted all blog posts from July 2006 and August 2005, complete with updated images and, in some cases, cleaned up text.
It’s a huge job bringing the site back up to speed - we’ve […]

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Remember back in 2005 when rookie third baseman, Jeff Baisley, steered Vancouver to the NWL West Championship?
Remember when he was the only guy hitting homers for us, and was turning out RBIs every time up to bat?
Remember how his steady, unspectacular approach quietly made him one of the all-stars of the league as the […]

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We’ve been catching up on some long-delayed housework of late, going through old posts and fixing their formatting to suit the current WordPress site. Along the way, we’ve recategorized some old player interviews that I figure are worth reminding folks of, now that the players involved are (mostly) ripping through the Oakland minors on their […]

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Chicago White Sox GM Kenny Williams and Pulp Fiction’s Marsellus Wallace.
It’s never too early to start the GM-ribbing, and since Chicago White Sox GM Kenny Williams is an A-grade Pierszynski, I thought it might be worth mentioning the similarities between he and his long lost twin - not just in appearance, but mainly in […]

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It’s tradition that when a team wins a championship, they’re given a big stonking ring with plenty of diamond chips to celebrate the fact. Usually these rings are so fat on the finger that you wouldn’t wear them outside of a 25-year alumni reunion, but they make for a nice keepsake in lieu of an […]

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The ex-Vancouver Canadians were out in force at Banner Island
Ballpark in Stockton yesterday as the High-A Stockton Ports took on the
AAA Sacramento Rivercats in a battle of the recently promoted.
Mantecan As Fan, from AthleticsNation, was at the event and posted a great game report describing what went down (year played in Vancouver noted in brackets):
The […]

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