Baseball fans in the lower mainland come in two varieties – those who bought their tickets early for tonight’s home opener at Nat Bailey Stadium, and those who won’t be allowed in.
The Vancouver Canadians Baseball Club have announces that tonight’s June 20th season opener vs. the Everett Aquasox is sold out.
But that doesn’t mean [...]

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If you watched the Roger Clemens steroid hearings that came out of the US Congress last week, three things should have jumped right out at you.
1) Congressional Chair Henry Waxman looks like a Hanna Barbera cartoon.
2) Clemens threw his wife under the bus for using roids, but still claims they never entered his own system, [...]

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UBC Thunderbirds baseball coach Terry McKaig often sends out notes to the media outlining results, highlights, notable players, etc, throughout the season, and generally they’re interesting reads. The most recent note, however, was somewhat… well… light on details:
Lost 17-3 to St. Martins.  No real highlights to speak of
obviously.

I’m sorry, I feel bad for the ‘Birds [...]

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C’s fans that came out to The Nat in season ‘04 will remember fondly the name of Mike McGirr [seen left], who lit up the Northwest League with a season that ended with a 5-0, 0.66 record after 7 starts. 
McGirr, an 8th round draftee for the Oakland A’s from 2003, was enjoying his second spell [...]

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