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	<title>NOTES FROM THE NAT: Vancouver Canadians news &#187; Moneyball</title>
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		<title>I just became a Vancouver Canucks fan.</title>
		<link>http://natnotes.com/2008/04/25/i-just-became-a-vancouver-canucks-fan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last few days, Vancouver Canucks hockey fans have been falling over themselves wondering what the new GM, Mike Gillis, is going to point to as his executive philosophy going forward.&#160;
Will he be an attack-oriented GM? Will he be a grit-meister? Will he look for the team to play a speed game? Will he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Hurt plays the Jays, then takes their cash back to Oakland</title>
		<link>http://natnotes.com/2008/04/24/blue-jays-feel-a-big-hurt-as-frank-thomas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[$18m for 29 home runs; that&#8217;s what it cost the Toronto Blue Jays to rent Frank Thomas for one season.
Thomas, the shoe-in Hall-of-Fame slugger who talked his way out of Chicago before coming to Oakland for pennies on the dollar, helped propel the Athletics to an unlikely appearance in the 2006 ALCS. He subsequently parlayed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The good trade that just keeps getting better</title>
		<link>http://natnotes.com/2008/04/10/the-good-trade-that-just-keeps-getting-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back when Mark Mulder was part of &#8216;The Big Three&#8217; in Oakland, the general consensus was that Oakland was sitting on World Series potential pitching talent.
Then, one night a few years ago, Oakland GM Billy Beane tore it all down. In a heartbeat, and there were a few skipped that night, I assure you, both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just inches from the Majors, 2002 1st rounder Jeremy Brown retires</title>
		<link>http://natnotes.com/2008/02/15/just-inches-from-the-majors-2002-1st-rounder-jeremy-brown-retires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fans of the Vancouver Canadians in 2002 may recall a slightly unathletic looking catcher ambling around the bases for ten games, before being punted upstars to High-A Visalia. 
That catcher was Jeremy Brown, the centerpiece of Moneyball, the infamous book that zeroed in on the Oakland Athletics and their &#8216;new fangled&#8217; ways of drafting and [...]]]></description>
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