Back from the sole road trip of the season, the Crabs are on a four-game winning streak, took two games from their Humboldt Bay brethren and now sport a .500 record for the first time since they were 0-0. This past week saw our Crabs travel down U.S. Highway 101 and face off against the Healdsburg […]
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SLO Betta Blues
These are getting harder to write. We’re a baker’s dozen games into the season, still three games under .500 at 5-8, and looking poised to remain so. “This is the slowest start the Crabs have had since I can remember,” said Hugh Scanion, Crab Grass Band founder and unofficial team historian. It isn’t that they’re […]
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The Boys of Summer Fog: Photos from Crabs Opening Weekend
Back for their 75th season, the Humboldt Crabs baseball team’s first game on Friday night at the Arcata Ballpark ended in an 8-3 loss to the Corvallis Knights. (Read more about the weekend’s games here.) The Crabs also lost the next two games to the talented Corvallis team on Saturday and Sunday, influenced no doubt […]
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An Ignominious Opening Weekend for the Crabs
You wouldn’t know it from the sky but summer is here and in Humboldt that means it’s Crab season once again, baby! Yes, folks, the best time of the year has arrived and our favorite decapods took the field this past weekend against the Corvallis (Phil) Knights. It was a bespoke nightmare tailored with stranded […]
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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 […]
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Crabs vs. Ringtails and Rooting for the Other Guy
Tuesday night’s game was one of the cruelest shellackings I have ever seen in any sport. The Redding Ringtails, obstructed by the Carr fire currently ravaging the Whiskeytown area, were only able to field nine of their own players. They picked up a 10th body, a young man from Eureka High School known to the […]
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Aww, Shucks: Crabs Lose Two on Oyster Fest Weekend
Well folks, I’ll be honest with you, it was a rough weekend. Beleaguered from a successful two-game road trip in the Redding heat, one they won in the 20th inning (yes, you read that right), our favorite crustaceans dropped two of three to the visiting Seattle Studs (yes, you read that right, too). Friday, June […]
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Bittersweet Opening Weekend for the Humboldt Crabs
Ladies and gentlemen, grab your reusable cups and your Ricolas because it’s Crabs season in Humboldt again. And this season, the Journal will be posting recaps of weekend games in Arcata. The Crabs wrapped up a bittersweet opening weekend, going 1-1 against their rivals of yore, the Corvallis Knights. Friday, June 1: I arrived at […]
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Huffman Down!
North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman separated his shoulder Wednesday while, in his words, “trying to be 25 years old.” More specifically, the congressman was practicing with his fellow Democrats for the 53rd annual Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game when he dove for a ball and came crashing down on the hard infield dirt, according to […]
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Catch & Release: The Humboldt Steelheads’ Untold – Until Now! – Story
Daffodils are blooming, the days are lengthening, sporting goods stores are stocking up on jerseys, bats and gloves – yes, baseball is in the air. From T-ball beginners to summer collegiate stunners, dreams of home runs and dramatic outs are mere weeks from manifesting. Except for one team: The Humboldt Steelheads. Ben Horton wants to […]
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Hardball
Here’s a question of local perception about pot, which simply doesn’t engender the same vitriol as other drugs around here: Do “upstanding” locals grow and use marijuana because it’s less serious, or do we consider it less serious because more “upstanding” locals grow and use it? A prominent community member arrested last year on cultivation […]
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UPDATE(S): Deal Struck in Crabs Manager Marijuana Case
SECOND UPDATE: A press release on the Crabs website says Nutter had been considering leaving the team for two years, and made the decision now to be with his family. From the release: Nutter explained that after a discussion with his family, he decided after 23 years with the Crabs organization that this was a […]