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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Terry Bell, one of the two local sports beat writers who cover baseball in Vancouver, and a very nice guy to Matt and myself, came out with a very cool piece today on Larry Cobb in the Vancouver Province.
Since I don’t know how to post the link, and the story is subscriber-protected, I’ll just log [...]

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One of the great success stories for this season has come from first
base, where the strong frame of Greg Dowling has held down a spot for
almost the entire season.
Though Don Sutton played a few games at 3, Dowling managed to endure a
first month slump, turn his form around, and quickly bump his average
up from [...]

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One of the early success stories for the Vancouver Canadians this year was Mike Affronti, who came out of the gate like a cannon shot, sucking up groundballs like a vacuum cleaner, and showing great poise with the bat.
Affronti has struggled a little since, perhaps feeling the pressure of 10th round draftee Christian Vitters, who [...]

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After tonight’s 3-4 game, Jermaine Mitchell wandered up to the Nat Bailey Stadium rooftop and had a chat with TEAM 1040’s callers, and I just happened to have my laptop handy, so I transcribed what went down for your perusal.
It was a pretty interesting conversation, though the J-Train does play his cards a little close [...]

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A few weeks before Vancouver hitting coach Ben Winslow was due to
arrive in Vancouver, Notes From The Nat had the scoop that he’d not
only been dating former Canadians press honcho Leanne Cass, and had not
only got engaged to her, but had actually just married her in a quiet
rural setting. At the time, it was a [...]

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LITTLE ARTICLE ON MANZUETA
Lyndon Little of The Sun continues to be Vancouver journalism’s go-to guy when it comes to mainstream press coverage of the Vancouver Canadians.
Scribes from The Province have managed to visit Nat Bailey Stadium
twice so far this season (which is better than last year, but a long
way from great), but Little is there [...]

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