Urban Vancouver

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 [...]

The longest serving Media Relations Manager and potentially the longest serving Broadcaster in C’s short-season history, Rob Fai has been impressing Vancouver Radio and TV fans since the late 1990’s.  After finishing his baseball career as a pitcher, where he starred for Grace College in Indiana back in the 90’s, Fai worked in the Nat [...]

An up and down season has come to an end for the Vancouver Canadians faithful, with more downs, than ups.  Not to say this year was a ‘wash’ year, because that might be an over-reaction, but it’s safe to say this year won’t go down as the best in Canadians short-season history.  Just be thankful [...]

A note from Rob McGowan to all in the C’s community: It is with regret that I inform you that Bernie Isman [seen right] passed away in his sleep on Friday, September 5 at age 101.  Bernie had a prolific career, dating from his graduating law school at the University of Saskatchewan in 1928. He was a World War Two veteran, a proud lawyer of 61 years, including [...]