The subject line above is apparently the only thing you’re allowed to write about former A’s minor league toiler Mark Kiger, or else his wife, a former Kits girl who calls herself "Bedhead Barbie", will post obscenities about you on her MySpace page.
Ah, where to begin this tale of joy?
Well, let’s start by warning […]

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We get emails sometimes at NFTN, and the firing of HawkerRob last week prompted a host of them. I’ve been holding off on printing them all because I really had to get my head around the situation myself, and figure out what’s the best way forward.
Let it be known, personally, I wouldn’t have fired Rob. […]

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Let me start this post off by saying I don’t wanna be the guy who pisses off the new owners and gets booted from the press box and sits in the cheap seats throwing stones the whole season, claiming "it ain’t like it used to be"…
In fact, I’m kinda glad ‘it ain’t like it […]

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JOE NEWBYThe Noob has long been a friend to Notes From The Nat, and we in turn have been one of the 2005 Beer Hawker’s Player of the Year award winner’s biggest cheerleaders. In 2004, he was brought in as a non-drafted free agent by Oakland after failing to get drafted. In 2005, he (along […]

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On occasion, we like to post a general wrap-up of questions and answers sent in by readers, along with interesting news bits that we’ve found floating around the web. This usually happens when, frankly, I’m bored.
Today, I’m bored like a beetle-infested pine tree.

"Hello, I live in Prince George, and I have been looking for some […]

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You may have noticed we did a little redesign on the site just
recently. Actually, it’s not done yet, but the PostNuke software we use
for the blog is a little hard to work changes into when it comes to the
site header, it seems.
Regardless, the changes allowed us to see much more easily whether or
not a comment […]

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There’s been a lot of correspondence coming in to our email address at nat_comments@yahoo.ca of late, and most of it indicates a growing awareness of all things Canadians-related.
The questions have moved beyond "what’s a slider" to "will Mike Massaro’s OBP make him a genuine prospect in the eyes of the A’s, or is he […]

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