In the glory days of the Harlem Globe Trotters, the famous basketball team would travel the world putting on a show, night after night, in which they’d absolutely dominate their opponents with tricks and ploys and comedy routines designed to embarrass and humiliate the other team for the giggles of the crowd.
But in order to [...]

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Good form is such a perilous thing. You hit a couple of dingers one night, the next night you think you’re The Incredible Hulk after a night on Barry Bonds’ horse steroids, and it all goes to heck.
Such is life for Jason Christian, who responded to my suggestion he’d make a good #2 hitter by [...]

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If there’s one thing that doesn’t surprise me anymore, it’s when the Vancouver Canadians get a nice fat crowd and get utterly destroyed on the field. It always happens. The more Fireworks Nights the team has scheduled in a season, the more losses that team will suffer.
Opening night, big crowd, huge loss.Fireworks night, big crowd, [...]

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That’s my game report.
If at least five players from this squad aren’t cut within the week, it’ll be criminally negligent.
Dusty Napoleon came back to Vancouver from Kane County tonight, and though it’s good to see The American Dream back again, he’s here because he was hitting like a Vancouver Canadian upstairs, so I’m not [...]

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Man, it’s getting tough to find any optimism about this team the way they’re playing right now.
I’m sorry, C’s players. I’m dying for you guys to play some freaking ball so I can be a mad cheering fan again and scream from the rooftops about how great you guys are and how you’ll look good [...]

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I was really tired when I got home from work tonight. It’s been a rough working week, and this 5pm to midnight shift is starting to hurt.
So I kind of appreciate it when the C’s don’t concede many runs, thus making the post-game report easy to write at 2am. But it would be nice if [...]

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Brutalized. Ten runs down after four innings. The baseball equivalent of a triple homicide. Ryne ‘Thumb Tacker took the brunt of it, and I’m not sure what’s wrong with the kid, but he clearly can’t throw a baseball right now.
But hey, let’s try to be optimistic. Four C’s got beaned through the course of the [...]

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