After a minor-league filled day on Saturday, today’s game we went to was a major league bout between the Oakland A’s and Texas Rangers. The starting pitchers were Oakland’s top prospect Gio Gonzalez, and for the Rangers, Sidney Ponson.
Oakland put some-what of a B-Squad on the diamond, facing Texas’ A-Lineup.
Oakland had the following batting order:
LF [...]

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2005 Vancouver Canadians third base standout, Jeff ‘Buttah’ Baisley, is doing more than signing autographs in major league spring training.
He’s hitting .667 at the moment (granted, we’re talking small sample size), and today he knocked in the tying and winning runs in a pinch-hit appearance to get the Athletics home in a 2-1 squeaker [...]

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Notes From The Nat has been giving the Oakland A’s a lot of writing time as of late, and why not?  Their spring training schedule has started, going 1-1 heading into Saturday’s match-up against Barry Zito and the San Francisco Giants, and all signs are pointing to a better season in 2008.
Today, as Oakland hits [...]

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The A’s will be playing game two of their spring training series against the Brewers today, at 12:05pm, and or very own Diamond Dallas Braden, the king of the screwball, will be throwing pitches for the green and gold crew.
Braden has been in and out of the Majors over the last two years, but it [...]

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Tons of stuff to report today, folks, so let’s get to it.
‘GLENN MAGIC’ GETS CALLED UP TO A’S SPRING TRAININGSeriously. According to the latest edition of the C’s online newsletter, Between The Lines, Glenn Hall, the Nat Bailey Stadium clubhouse manager who has developed such a rep for being A) an awesome cook, and B) [...]

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I’LL GIVE $50 TO THE FIRST GUY THAT PLUNKS HIM 
News has come to hand that Sammy Sosa, one-time Vancouver Canadian, steroid user and baseball history abuser, wants someone to give him a shot at the 2007 season. 
"I feel like I did when I was a rookie," Sosa told The Associated
Press. "I have a lot of [...]

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