It's been a week since the Vancouver Grizzlies received permission to look for a new home. The irony is that, as they have begun to do just that, they've begun to play like a team Vancouver could embrace. He strolled nonchalantly into the clubhouse, as if it were just another day at the Carpenter Complex. Immediately, silent alarms went off. Forget the most advanced telecommunications devices that have been invented.
Nothing spreads news faster than the baseball grapevine.
Larry Bowa has been thinking about the speech he'll give before the first full-squad workout today since he was hired in November. I know what I want to get across. When Bo Donaldson signed a minor league contract last December, he hoped that he would also get an invitation to big-league spring training. When that didn't happen he, well, sort of invited himself. Ranked teams, St. Joseph's coach Phil Martelli said, are sort of like baseball managers.