The Vig

From this morning’s O.
“Baseball,” says Chris Metz, a Beavers spokesman, “is about nostalgia.”
Sure it is, Chris. That’s why Thirsty Thursday is your biggest draw.
Seriously though, I love baseball and its history as much as the next guy, and I’m planning to spend a lot of time at PGE Park this summer. But this [...]

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So much for waking the slumbering bear.  We’re entering the third year of the J2 experiment and the franchise seems to be sliding further and further behind.  The marketing effort has been non-existent.  The scouting, as has been pointed out elsewhere, has been turned over to the genius who brought us Francis and Cepek.  And [...]

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Well, not quite.  But I’d be willing to bet we’ll see the former Cubs phenom suiting up for the home team at PGE Park at some point next season.  He hasn’t pitched in the majors since July 2006.

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I was on the phone with my buddy Doug last night as I made a delivery in the hills behind PGE Park.  I kept interrupting him with stories of folks in Santa outfits walking up and down Burnside.  There were naughty girl Santas.  There were a few drunken Santas straight out of Trading Places, a [...]

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I honestly didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to this week’s visit to Portland by Major League Soccer Commissioner Dan Garber. I figured he was blowing into town to drum up some support for bringing his league to our fair city and that would pretty much be that. What we got instead [...]

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US Women’s goaltender Hope Solo was benched in favor of Brianna Scurry prior to this morning’s World Cup match with Brazil. The Brazillians ran roughshod over Team USA, winning 4-0. That is a stomping.
Solo wasn’t happy with coach Greg Ryan’s decision and she’s let the world know.
I’m with you, Hope. I do [...]

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