Urban Vancouver

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to all those readers of Nat Notes.  May you all be able to spend these holidays with your loved ones, and those close to you. After a busy 2008, Nat Notes is going to be following the World Baseball Classic closely in 2009, in the lead-up to March.  More-so [...]

Thanks to reader ‘canadiansfan’ who tipped us about Shawn Haviland’s blog.  Shawn’s blog which is titled ‘Ivy League to MLB’ features his tips on work ethic, and his thoughts on the baseball world as well. It’s worth reading, and I encourage C’s fans and baseball fans alike to check it out.  If anyone has links to [...]

Following in suit of the BC Lions and Vancouver Canucks, two local teams that hold annual sales to clean out un-sold merchandise, the Vancouver Canadians will be holding a blowout sale of their own this upcoming weekend.  On Sunday, between 12 and 2 PM, the Team Store will be open, with Bob Brown Bear and [...]

First off, the comment from someone in the Gomez family is a good sign.  Fabian was offered a contract to play indy ball, and is expecting more, apparently.  Good sign, because Fabian got the bad luck of the pitching staff both seasons, with injuries, mental errors by the players behind him, and just poor calls [...]

It’s been an eventful couple of weeks in baseball’s official off-season, where Oakland has made numerous changes, intheir minor leagues, with their coaching staff in the show, and have made updates to their 40-man roster. First, let’s get to the minor league changes. A handful of ex-Canadians have been let go by Oakland, and now those players, [...]

I’ll start off first, by saying sorry for the lack of posting.  My email crashed on me a few weeks ago, when I had numerous posts for Nat Notes and Scout.com (sorry Melissa!), vanish.  Sometimes it might be worth it to not have a free email account. A month ago, a new baseball team in British [...]

NOTE: Photo credit to Bob Broughton, tbirdbaseball.net Vancouver Canadians fans were pleasantly surprised when OF Jeremy Barfield showed up at Nat Bailey Stadium this summer, the son of Blue Jay great Jesse Barfield. While I don’t think some of the expectations made were fair to the youngest of the Barfield baseball trio, he certainly did well [...]