It’s been a long time coming, but the Canadians have finally revealed their new 2008 jerseys, to the public.  While I’m not as keen on the road jerseys as I am the alternate black and home white, these jerseys are still a huge step forward from the variations of team jerseys since the short-season inception […]

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Congratulations, Gregorio Petit!
From the official release:

OAKLAND — The Oakland A’s today recalled infielder Gregorio Petit from Triple-A Sacramento and placed right-handed pitcher Santiago Casilla on the 15-day disabled list with soreness in his right elbow.
Petit was batting .304 with no home runs and 15 RBI in 37 games with Sacramento this year, all at shortstop. […]

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* The Oakland "Baby A’s" are on a tear right now, and as a Vancouver Canadians fan, I can’t help but point out to all MLB fans I know in the area that half the team that just kicked the ass of both Toronto and Cleveland, played at Nat Bailey Stadium in the last handful […]

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The 2008 pre-season (or 2007 post-season, I guess) was a time of change for the Oakland A’s. Call it an organizational epiphany if you will, but using the DL 22 times in a single season seemed to make it abundantly clear to the A’s that, though they had achieved great things for next to no […]

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The stars of the C’s from years 2002 to 2007 are all over Arizona right now, and some familiar names were yesterday not just notching hits, but also runs, RBIs and even homers while wearing Oakland green.
As part of an 11-6 loss to the Texas Rangers, ‘07 Vancouver Canadians star, Uptown Corey Brown [seen right], […]

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2005 Vancouver Canadians third base standout, Jeff ‘Buttah’ Baisley, is doing more than signing autographs in major league spring training.
He’s hitting .667 at the moment (granted, we’re talking small sample size), and today he knocked in the tying and winning runs in a pinch-hit appearance to get the Athletics home in a 2-1 squeaker […]

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Notes From The Nat has been giving the Oakland A’s a lot of writing time as of late, and why not?  Their spring training schedule has started, going 1-1 heading into Saturday’s match-up against Barry Zito and the San Francisco Giants, and all signs are pointing to a better season in 2008.
Today, as Oakland hits […]

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