I just became a Vancouver Canucks fan.

Posted in April 25th, 2008
by Oz in 2008, Baseball News, Newswire, North of the Border, Oakland Athletics

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. 
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 [...]

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The Vancouver Canuckleheads, and the sporting press that enables them

Posted in April 8th, 2008
by Oz in 2008, Misc, North of the Border, Road Trips, YouTube Clips

I don’t normally rip the Canucks on this blog, mainly because it breaks from the format, but after another year of the Vancouver sporting press filling 95% of their column inches with NHL minutiae at the expense of every other sport around, and with the team having self-destructed in the most lazy and heartless of [...]

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What’s new in the world of C-dom?

Posted in February 1st, 2008
by Oz in 2008, Around The Minors, Baseball News, Newswire, North of the Border, Oakland Athletics, UBC Thunderbirds, Vancouver Canadians

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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