The blog of the Northwest League's Vancouver Canadians. Everyday we pump out player interviews, post-game reports, news, and humor about our local ball club and their major league affiliate, the Oakland Athletics.
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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, [...]...
The Recking Ball was a fun player to watch in Vancouver in 2005. He had ridiculous strength, he flattened guys heading for home, and he had a flock of women who purchased tickets right behind home plate just so they could be close to 'that ass'. One even ran onto the field one night, sprinted [...]...
And that realization has come with the arrival of two guys who, last season, struggled to even get a start. Dante Love and Dusty Napoleon have come to this team from stints in Kane County in the Midwest League, where neither of them particularly excelled, and anchored the batting lineup with the closest thing to experience [...]...
In a move that surprises, yet doesn't, Ed Campienello has been removed as C's hitting coach. Not sure if he's been pushed sideways, up, down or out as of yet, but former C's manager Juan Navarette has stepped in to help until a permanent hitting instructor can be found. Navarette's specialty is fielding work, so [...]...
Just when you think you have a team figured out, they go and change their entire gameplan, and come up with a change in form. Though it'll obviously take more than one win to claim 'form', the way the Vancouver Canadians won today's nooner against the formerly dominant Eugene Emeralds indicates that, if they can't beat [...]...
Widely regarded as the best team-specific minor league blog in the online world today, NFTN treats a team in Low-A, short season baseball as though it were a Major League franchise, pumping out content left and right, and following Vancouver ball players right the way through the minor league system.
Two parts comedy, three parts information, this is one heck of an in depth resource.. if I do say so myself.
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