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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No game report for yesterday’s game… because I’m not down with writing two reports for one game.
In the meantime, feel free to take aboard what I wrote for the Vancouver Sun:
Fresh off a series win against the Mariners-affiliated Everett Aquasox, and on a roll that has seen them win three of their last four games, [...]

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Seriously, just stop now, people.
I don’t know if there’s some sort of pool where the guy with the most errors this season wins $48 and a coupon to Subway, but the ball-booting and throwing into right field must stop.
The C’s are starting to get some bats moving now, and the pitching is still strong, [...]

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I was really tired when I got home from work tonight. It’s been a rough working week, and this 5pm to midnight shift is starting to hurt.
So I kind of appreciate it when the C’s don’t concede many runs, thus making the post-game report easy to write at 2am. But it would be nice if [...]

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Brutalized. Ten runs down after four innings. The baseball equivalent of a triple homicide. Ryne ‘Thumb Tacker took the brunt of it, and I’m not sure what’s wrong with the kid, but he clearly can’t throw a baseball right now.
But hey, let’s try to be optimistic. Four C’s got beaned through the course of the [...]

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It was Nooner number one of the 2008 season for the C’s, and was one they’d like to forget.  With the winning run on first, and the tying run on second, with one out in the bottom of the 9th, Julio Rivera swung at a high pitch, to strikeout, before teammate Mitch LeVier did the [...]

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The A’s aren’t waiting around to get their contract signing taken care of; ten players have dropped their John Hancock’s on a contract thus far, and more pour in every day.
Those signed so far (with their first draft nicknames for the season):
8th round: OF Jeremy Barfield [seen right]9th round: C Mitchell ‘Two-Beer’ LeVier14th round: [...]

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