There have been plenty of great baseball players to play for the Vancouver Canadians over the past 30 years, including the likes of Sammy Sosa, Garrett Anderson and Troy Glaus.  What’s the difference between them and the Single-A studs we have now a days patrolling ‘The Nat’?  For one thing, those guys were just one [...]

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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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Whatever it is I did to piss off the Word Press staff, please tell me.  4 drafts, all with no writing in them anymore.  Two were from Arizona, the other two on UBC and the A’s Minor Leagues respectively.  I don’t know what is up, so I’ll dish out some time now to get it [...]

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An up and down season has come to an end for the Vancouver Canadians faithful, with more downs, than ups.  Not to say this year was a ‘wash’ year, because that might be an over-reaction, but it’s safe to say this year won’t go down as the best in Canadians short-season history.  Just be thankful [...]

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Two words describe why there were no post-game reports from Spokane: Slow. Internet.  My goodness, it was terrible.  Loading a single web page took as long as 5 minutes, before I gave up hope.  
So you get a batch of 4 post-game reports today.  Lucky readers. :)
Game 1 we missed, but I posted the report [...]

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It was not a good night for baseball weather wise, and it was not a good outcome for the hometown fans who braved out the rain, and there was a lot of rain, only to see a 2-0 shutout victory for the visitors.
C’s RHP Mike Hart was making his debut as a starter, since signing [...]

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