Just prior to the first major league promotion of his career, catcher Luke Carlin sat down with portlandbeavers.com in the latest edition of Beavers A-Z. Carlin had his contract purchased by the Padres on May 9.

What's Matt Antonelli's favorite holiday? Does he fancy himself a singer? What are his pet peeves? Find out in the first edition of Beavers A-Z, where ace media intern Tyler Morrill throws the difficult questions at the Portland second baseman.

It's finally here, the 2008 season of events at PGE Park begins this weekend, and the stadium and its new state-of-the-art FieldTurf playing surface is ready for action. Tireless hours have gone into preparing the field for its debut event.

Now that the rolls of new FieldTurf have been put down and are settled into place, the new state-of-the-art playing surface is finally coming to life as work crews started to insert the specialized infill into the turf today at PGE Park.