Seals:
The newest Canadian Independent team is housed in Victoria, at Royal Athletic Park, and have a ‘Canadian’ connection on their team, even though the player has never set foot at Nat Bailey as a player.
The Vancouver Canadians have had numerous players continue their baseball careers in Independent Baseball, but 2008 outfielder Mitch LeVier’s older brother [...]

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Canadians FM:
Just one year after you could first listen to Canadians games on the concourse, you can now bring an FM radio, and listen to them from the comfort of your seat, to the tune of Rob Fai, and on occasion Chris Pritchett (when it is a Team 1040 game).  All home games can be [...]

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Canadiansbaseball.com
If you’ve regularly followed the Canadians official homepage this off-season, you’ll have noticed a few changes yesterday, when they switched to the (I would guess) mandatory MILB.com format which will soon house the sites of all MILB teams.  I think it looks great, and am still loving the header at the top of the page.
It’s [...]

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2009 MLB Draft:
If you’ve followed the blog for a number of years, you probably realize that MLB Draft day(s) is the equivalent to Christmas for us, blogging on the A’s picks the entire two days, and getting up-to-the minute interviews with the latest draftees (as in Tyson Ross from last year).  Instead of the usual [...]

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The Northwest League Vancouver Canadians extended their hot streak to eight wins in their last eleven games with a tight 4-3 victory over the Tri-City Dust Devils Saturday.
Despite falling behind to a ground-out RBI in the first inning after newly promoted Leonardo Gil booted the ball at third base, tight pitching from Matt Fitts kept [...]

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In the glory days of the Harlem Globe Trotters, the famous basketball team would travel the world putting on a show, night after night, in which they’d absolutely dominate their opponents with tricks and ploys and comedy routines designed to embarrass and humiliate the other team for the giggles of the crowd.
But in order to [...]

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Just when you think you have a team figured out, they go and change their entire gameplan, and come up with a change in form.
Though it’ll obviously take more than one win to claim ‘form’, the way the Vancouver Canadians won today’s nooner against the formerly dominant Eugene Emeralds indicates that, if they can’t beat [...]

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