Odds and Ends: Canadians site, UBC T-Birds, Alumni

Posted in May 14th, 2009
by Jeremy in 2009, Around The Minors, Baseball News, Between The Innings, In The System, Newswire, North of the Border, Oakland Athletics, UBC Thunderbirds, Vancouver Canadians, Where Are They Now

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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Fun times in Stockton – ex-C’s suspended for brawling

Posted in June 16th, 2008
by Oz in 2008, Around The Minors, Baseball News, Newswire, Oakland Athletics, Vancouver Canadians, Where Are They Now

Frank Martinez hit a homer.
That, in itself, is grounds for a post. At least if you figure his awful form in a Vancouver Canadians shirt was indicative of his talent (though it doesn’t seem to be).
Regardless, the Modesto Nuts took Frank’s homerun as an affront last night in a game against the High-A Stockton Ports, [...]

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Oakland A’s organizational changes: what they’ll mean to the Vancouver Canadians

Posted in March 25th, 2008
by Oz in 2008, Around The Minors, Baseball News, Draft, Oakland Athletics, Rants'n'Raves, Vancouver Canadians

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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