If you’d like to catch the Crab Grass Band in action between innings — and watch some baseball, too, I suppose — come out to the Arcata Ball Park tonight at 7 p.m. for the first game in a hometown series against the Fresno A’s. Yes, I call it the Ball Park and not Crabs […]
Crab Grass Band
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There Ain’t No Cure
Every week it’s more of the same. I tell myself that I will write something cheerful and light, then, without fail, the vast and seething continent on whose western edge we all live churns up some fresh, manmade horrors to bloody up the news cycle again. A mass shooting at a family-filled holiday parade, another […]
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Crab Grass Band Returns to the Park Tonight, Crabs Host Mudcats July 2-4
Humboldt Crabs Baseball is back in full swing with the ballpark now open to full capacity and the Crab Grass Band returning to the stands tonight. (Get recaps of home games all summer at www.northcoastjournal.com.) For the holiday weekend, the Crabbies host the Solano Mudcats July 2-4 with the Crab Grass Band tootin’ on the […]
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King Crabs
The Crabs welcomed the West Coast Kings to Humboldt County for the first time with a series sweep. Ten more games left in the season and we’re sitting pretty at 26-13, riding a nine-game win streak. Friday night’s game was one of the more competitive and exciting games of the year. The Kings looked razor […]
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Win One for the Gipper
“Oh, what a beautiful morning! Oh, what a beautiful day! I’ve got a beautiful feeling, everything’s going my way.” My Grandmother used to sing that every morning to wake up my brother and I. And I, not being a morning person, hate hate hated it. Nothing worse than being rousted by someone an hour and […]
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Crabs Season is over and Everything is Garbage
Well, folks, it’s over. Humboldt’s best summer distraction has come to a close and now we are all forced to confront the empty misery of our Crabs-less existences. No more heckling, no more Crusty, no more dynamic renditions of “Go Big Red,” no more band at all! Baseball has abandoned Arcata, not to return for […]