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If you’ve ever been at Nat Bailey Stadium, you’ve probably wondered, "How much do these guys get paid".  Well, it’s probably about as much as you get working at McDonalds over a two-week period.  It is really not that much, despite being a professional athlete.  The big cash comes in the Majors, and considering most [...]

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2004 Vancouver Canadians outfielder/lead-off man Nick Blasi was a real fan favourite that season.
Adept at getting on base, even without swinging his bat, and prone to peeling off foul tip after foul tip when he needed to in order to keep an at bat alive (and a pitcher gassed), Blasi was actually my favourite player [...]

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When he played in Vancouver in 2004, I had a lot of time for Tommy Everidge. 
T-Mobile took a little time to warm up to the presence of a tape recorder under his nose, but once Benny Winslow started dishing the inside scoop on nicknames (Super Mario!), the big first baseman from Santa Rosa started talking [...]

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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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