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Fighters Trade: Open Letters
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On Wednesday, the Fighters traded Naoto Inada, Suguru Matsuyama, and Yataro Sakamoto to the Baystars for Takeharu Katoh, Takahiro Matsuka, and Yuta Sekiguchi.This trade seems REALLY weird to me and as usual I think the Baystars got the better deal, just like two years ago with the...
2009 NPB Awards (Golden Gloves, Best Nine, Minor Leagues, Everything!)
3 days ago by
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I have a post about the U-26 vs. College game in my drafts pile, but have been sick the last few days. I hadn't posted the awards for the year yet, and the nice thing is that since I was a slacker, now I can put them all in one post together! Hooray.Best Nines Central League Pacific...
2009 NPB Fan Fests Schedule
8 days ago by
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Hi guys -- I'm not dead, honest. Just feeling kind of burnt out after the season, and was REALLY busy last week with my school, and well, there's no real reason for me to translate news when someone else is doing that. I even skipped the Jingu HS/college baseball tourney last...
Japan Series Game 6, Kamagaya Report: And So It Ends
20 days ago by
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Saturday, November 7th, my half-birthday, the Yomiuri Giants won the Japan Series by beating the Nippon Ham Fighters 2-0 at the Sapporo Dome. Yet again, just as in 1981, the Giants beat the Fighters in the Japan Series 4 games to 2, and for the Giants, this was their 21st Japan Series...
Japan Series Game 5 Report: Fighters vs. Giants @ Tokyo Dome - Hisashi Handed Heartbreaking Homeruns
21 days ago by
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I thought about just posting the following:The Fighters got a run in the 2nd inning off of two Giants errors, and held the 1-0 lead for most of the game, which became tied 1-1 in the 8th off Takahiro Suzuki's clever baserunning and Noriyoshi Ohmichi's pinch-hit single. Shinji...
Japan Series Game 4 Report: Fighters vs. Giants @ Tokyo Dome - Our Takahashi Is Better Than Theirs
22 days ago by
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Wednesday morning, I went to an English speech contest with a few of my students. One of them is a big Giants fan and we talked about the Japan Series on the streetcar over, since she grabbed my cellphone and was looking through all of my Fighters charms and straps dangling from it...
A Blog Backdated 75 Years
23 days ago by
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Rob Fitts is blogging the All-American baseball tour of Japan.It's going on through November......1934, that is.Remember, if you want to go see baseball in a stadium Babe Ruth played in, in addition to Fenway, you can always come to Japan and go to Jingu or Koshien! :)(I'll...
Japan Series Game Report: Fighters vs. Giants @ Tokyo Dome - Duped Again By Ogasawara's Clean-Shaven Doppleganger
23 days ago by
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Hooray! I finally got to go to an actual Fighters Japan Series game! How cool is THAT?Now if only they hadn't LOST, it would have been even better.Because November 3rd is a Japanese national holiday, Culture Day, the area around the Tokyo Dome was already full of people several...
Takafumi Nakamura, from Chuo to Cleveland?
25 days ago by
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Well, it's been rumored before, and now that the draft has passed, the Indians did infact sign Takafumi Nakamura, it seems.I don't have a lot to say about him since I only saw him play once. (He doesn't play on the top team much ever since Yamasaki and Sawamura showed up...
Soukeisen Sunday Game Report: Keio wins! So Meiji wins!
25 days ago by
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I kind of assume people reading this know what Soukeisen is, but in case you don't, let's get that out of the way first: it's the word used for any competition between Waseda and Keio, and in this particular case, it's the bi-annual baseball match between the two universities...
Semi-liveblogging: Japan Series Game 2, Fighters vs. Giants -- Darvish!?
26 days ago by
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Okay, I made an executive decision this morning to go Jingu for Soukeisen (the Waseda-Keio rivalry grudgematch), on the hunch that something weird was going to happen and it was going to involve Tatsuya Ohishi. I was right on both counts, but I'll be writing a separate post about...
Semi-liveblogging: Japan Series, Game 1
27 days ago by
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For various reasons I'm home to watch the first game of the Japan Series. At least this year I *can* see it on BS1. I probably won't be home for any of the other games, though.I'm liveblogging, but I'm not going to be translating every batter -- more like, as stuff...
Friday Foto: NPB Draftees, Part 1 - Central League
28 days ago by
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I said I'd compile a post with photos of all the 2009 NPB draftees that I've taken, so here we go. These are from all sorts of amateur baseball games, from the Koshien HS tournament to college baseball league games and tournaments, to the industrial league tournament, even...
2009 NPB Draft Liveblogging
October 29, 2009 by
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This is a placeholder post for now. And I'm finishing up a Big 6 photopost that will go below it shortly.But yeah, at 4pm the draft starts, and I'm planning to do the same style post as previous years. I'll be watching the first hour on TV, then the rest just translating...
Tokyo Big 6 Photopost: Hosei vs. Meiji - Futagami's Last Stand (No, Really, I Mean It This Time)
October 28, 2009 by
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The school I work at cancelled classes from Tuesday to Friday this week because half of our students have the flu, so they figure if nobody comes to school, the uninfected students won't get infected, and besides, we can't really do a lot when our classes are all half empty...
Yoshihiro Satoh Retired Today
October 26, 2009 by
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(If you're basically thinking "Who?" or "Yoshinori?!?!" or something along those lines, just bear with me and skip this post. I'm talking about a Fighters mostly-ni-gun outfielder who I watched quite a bit last year and this year.)I got a cellphone email...
Game Report: Hosei vs. Meiji, or Trying Another Type of Ouendan
October 25, 2009 by
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I spent pretty much all day Saturday lying down in bed due to a stomach virus (I think) that hit me sometime Friday night. All I did was liveblog the Fighters game where they clinched the Pacific League playoffs; the rest of the day is completely lost to me.When I woke up today, I...
Liveblogging: Pacific League Playoffs Second Stage Game Four: Fighters vs. Eagles
October 24, 2009 by
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I'm mildly sick, which is why I am at home right now on Saturday afternoon instead of down at Jingu watching Hosei lose (argh). I had a fairly bad case of nausea over the night, and right now my stomach still hurts a ton when I move, so I'm trying to sit still and watch the...
Liveblogging: Pacific League Playoffs Second Stage Game Three: Fighters vs. Eagles
October 23, 2009 by
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Here we go again. I liveblogged game 1 that the Fighters won on Sledge's sayonara grand slam, and then the Fighters won last night too while I was at the Tokyo Dome watching the Dragons lose, so if the Fighters win tonight, they are GOING TO THE JAPAN SERIES! Woo. The game starts...
Liveblogging: Pacific League Playoffs Second Stage Game One: Fighters vs. Eagles
October 21, 2009 by
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Alright, I'm home tonight watching the playoffs on TV, so might as well liveblog the Fighters. The game starts at 6:15pm and the BS1 broadcast is supposed to start at 6:10pm.There's also a chatroom on japanesebaseball.com if you want to come in and chat about the playoff games...
Tokyo Big Six, Week 6, Sunday -- Futagami's Shutout, Nomura's Triumphant Return, and Photostalking Hosei
October 19, 2009 by
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Onward to Sunday, where the postgame was actually more crazy than the games themselves, in a way. (Continued, kind of, from Saturday's post.)Being as I am relatively broke right now, I decided to sit in the outfield for Sunday's games, since women (and children) can sit there...
Tokyo Big Six, Week 6, Saturday -- Long Ties and Cold Rain
October 19, 2009 by
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I went down to Jingu Stadium early on to get a front-row seat. Showed up at 10:20, as usual the Waseda side was mobbed with Yuki Saitoh fans but the Hosei side wasn't too bad. I ended up sitting next to a 70-year-old old Hosei alum who told me stories about watching Hosei's...
Yukio's Coming Back! (And other Fighters stuff)
October 13, 2009 by
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Yesterday they had a press conference to introduce the Fighters' newest ni-gun batting coach -- except he's not new to the Fighters at all, it's our very own Yukio Tanaka!(image from Sankei Sports)This is so cool. I hope that having the REAL Mr. Fighters, the true owner...
Game 110: Swallows vs. Gomiuri: Shiroishi's Last Stand
October 13, 2009 by
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In theory, this should have been Game 111 for me instead of 110, but I've been feeling really tired lately and stayed up too late on Sunday night, so I woke up late on Monday and didn't get down to Jingu in time for the rubber match between Waseda and Rikkio. I missed a GREAT...
Game 109: Dragons @ Swallows - Crying Foul
October 11, 2009 by
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I'm going to start off by saying that Sunday night's game result actually had very little meaning to me either way. I went to this game not really caring who won, as the postseason slots have already been determined (otherwise, I probably would have cheered for Yakult, just...
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