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A Number a Day, Jan 9-12
I'm not going to do this during the weekend of Jan 13-16 on account of the fact that I'm going to Boston for the MIT Mystery Hunt.Do you remember when Freddy Sanchez was the lone All-Star for the Pittsburgh Pirates? Yeah, nobody else does either. But that's when I bought this shirt, when I was in Pittsburgh for CMU Carnival or something and decided I wanted another Pirates t-shirt...
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January 13, 2012
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A Number A Day, Jan 6-8
My #8 for the 8th is one of my all-time favorite players, Makoto Kaneko of the Nippon Ham Fighters. Kaneko's birthday is Nov 8th and I often wondered if that's why he wears #8.It's really hard not to like him -- he's not a superstar by any means but he's been a solid player for his career, anchoring shortstop for the Fighters for pretty much the last 15 years or so. His glove is...
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January 08, 2012
A Number A Day, Jan 3-5
This has been kind of amusing so far.My housemate Jenny just took this photo for me. Last night she said "I didn't realize you were WEARING these every day! I thought it was just a queue of photos!"Anyway, #5 for the 5th is Takuro Ishii, in his Baystars era. I was and am a huge Takuro Ishii fan... he's just a very enigmatic player, with a very unique career that NOBODY will ever...
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January 05, 2012
A Number A Day, Jan 2012
Last time I did this was the countdown to Opening Day 2007. This time I'm just doing this for the heck of it. Instead of real baseball players, I'm trying this month to wear a baseball t-shirt or uniform for every day of the month that I have one. I don't ACTUALLY have one for every single number between 1 and 31, though I'm close.So far I've worn them on the...
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January 03, 2012
Your 2011 Japan Series Champions, the Hawks
But it's 6:30am here in Seattle, so I'm going to sleep in a bit. Unlike the last time I was watching a Japan Series game in the US (the 2006 Fighters-Dragons series), you have plenty of other places to learn about what happened during the game in English these days.Personally, I really wanted this series to go to seven games, so I'm happy for that, at least. I thought it was pretty...
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November 20, 2011
Monday Foto: Soukeisen
Actually, this is just me being too tired to write ANYTHING about the four games I attended this weekend, where Waseda won both of the Soukeisen games (6-2 and 4-2) and Yakult won on Saturday night 3-2 but the Giants won on Sunday night 6-2.This is my favorite photo I took all weekend:Waseda's Shota Sugiyama slides headfirst into 3rd base for a triple. It's really rare to see a...
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October 31, 2011
Friday Foto: Draft Aftermath, the paper version
For amusement value, I often like to buy the daily sports papers after a big event has happened, to see their different takes on it (and occasionally to cut out articles to stick up on the wall or whatever). Anyway, here's your spread of the "big" papers today:Let's see, first, 4 out of 6 have Sugano on the cover. None have Fujioka.Upper left, Sports Hochi (a Giants-based paper...
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October 28, 2011
Draft 2011 -- Photopost preview
Well, even though I wasn't in Japan for most of this year, myself and my camera have gone to an awful lot of amateur baseball games over the years anyway, especially local college games, so here's a few of the guys entering this year's draft. (I'll be updating this as the afternoon goes on to take my mind off being nervous. And then I'll move the liveblogging post to the top.)Tokyo...
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October 27, 2011
Draft 2011 Liveblogging
Will be done here. I'm going to finish up a pre-draft photopost in the morning and the draft itself is in the afternoon.I'm on pins and needles as usual -- just like last year I was so worried about where Ohishi and Kagami were going to end up, this year I'm hoping Takahiro Fujioka ends up somewhere good. But there are a ton of other guys I'm worried about too, of course.And yeah...
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October 26, 2011
Photopost: Lions vs. Fighters ni-gun - Ohishi Theater Returns!
It's been so long since I got to do a good Tatsuya Ohishi fangirling post! Hooray!Last Wednesday, I had planned to go to Seibu for both the minor-league Lions-Fighters game during the day, and the major-league Lions-Fighters game at night. Mostly, this was because I had a hunch that Ohishi would start for Seibu, and also, it'd be a nice way to spend a day out in Seibuland. The...
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September 29, 2011
Game Reports: Fighters vs. Lions and Swallows vs. Baystars
Monday, I decided not to go to the 3rd game of the Meiji-Hosei series and instead did a doubleheader of the Lions vs. Fighters at the Seibu Dump, then the Swallows vs. Baystars at Jingu.I guess I arrived at Seibu around 12:30pm. First thing I noticed was a lot of people taking photos of the Seibu train cars. This is why:I'm assuming it must be a new makeover for the cars or something...
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September 20, 2011
2011 Game Log
This really should be a good indicator of exactly how much I enjoy going to games in Japan vs. games in the US, given that I was in Japan until April 12 this year and am back now for a month and a half to catch the end of the year and the university leagues. Will update this as the month progresses.March 20: Baystars vs. Lions ni-gun, Yokosuka StadiumMarch 24: Odate Houmei vs. Tenri...
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September 19, 2011
Game Report: Marines vs. Buffaloes at QVC Whatever
I gotta admit, I didn't even know what the hell QVC was until I just looked it up.Going to The Stadium Formerly Known As Chiba Marine isn't all that much fun for me anymore. I have a lot of memories there, of course, from all the time I spent there during Bobby Valentine's time as manager, and so going there now feels strange, unless I'm sitting in the Fighters cheering section...
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September 17, 2011
Game Report: Fighters vs. Marines at the Tokyo Dome -- ただいま！
Fighters games at the Tokyo Dome are really special to me. It was, infact, at the Tokyo Dome 8 years ago that I got my start as a Fighters fan. Thus, I planned my trip to Japan this fall to allow me to get to at least one Tokyo Dome game, and I'm really glad I did.Not sure I'm a fan of the new uniforms, but I'm a total fan of getting to pose with BB.Anyway, I showed up around 3...
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September 15, 2011
Friday Foto: Hideki Irabu
I intended to put this up several weeks ago. But, well, things are busy. I finished up my summer job contract last weekend, and this weekend I'm helping host Microsoft Puzzle Hunt, and then ON TUESDAY I AM FLYING TO TOKYO!! On Thursday I'll be at the Tokyo Dome for the Fighters game!!! I'll be in Japan for around 6 weeks, then I'll be moving to San Francisco and starting a full...
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September 09, 2011
Nichidai San, Koshien champions! 日大三、優勝！
I created a special tag just for this team: Sanko 畔上組, meaning the "Azegami Team". I needed something to specify that I meant this particular Sanko team; it's a strong baseball school in general, but like I've been saying, this year's particular group of 9 boys are particularly special.
Anyway, in case you didn't already hear, this morning was the final match of Koshien, and...
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August 20, 2011
Friday Foto: Kentaro Yoshinaga
I have been so swamped by work in the last few weeks, including a 2-week period where my group actually went off-site and holed up in a hotel in order to work on our project, that I've barely seen any of Koshien EXCEPT Nichidai Sanko and the occasional outlying game like Kyukoku or Teikyo or Yokohama.
I kept holding off on making the Yoshinaga mega-photopost because I wanted to write...
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August 19, 2011
Welcome to Koshien, Meet Nichidai-San -- FOR REAL! Yoshinaga strikes out 14 and Sanko beats Sojitsu 2-1!
This boy...is going to this place!:)So yeah, fairly close final game to close up the West Tokyo qualifiers, between Nichidai San and Waseda Jitsugyo. In 2006, these two teams also faced off, and Waseda's ace at the time was this kid named Yuki Saitoh. You may have heard of him. Waseda won in the 11th inning and went to Koshien, and the rest is history. Saitoh went on to beat...
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July 30, 2011
Friday Fake Foto: 1987 Koshien Magazine Scans
I'm calling this a "fake photo" because I didn't take these photographs. No, these are from one of the gems of my tendency to always look through the baseball magazines of any Book-Off I went to in Japan, just to see what oddball stuff might end up there. One time, I found a copy of the 1987 issue of 甲子園の恋人たち, a Koshien photobook magazine that seems to have mostly...
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July 29, 2011
Kokoyakyu: Welcome to Koshien, Meet Nichidai San (Part 3)
Part 3 in a series. See Part 1, See Part 2.As we close in on the finals of the summer taikai, I find myself wanting to revisit and finish my monster Nichidai San posts from the spring. They did infact go on to win the entire Tokyo spring taikai, though that shouldn't really surprise anyone, and now they're contending for a spot at summer Koshien. I started this series of posts...
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July 28, 2011
Tokyo Big 6 Spring 2011 Best Nine, stats, etc
This post is about a month and a half late. I actually ran the numbers for it a while ago (I hoped to tell Hayata Itoh exactly how much he dominated the league even though he missed the triple crown by one hit, but I didn't really get to talk to him at the Japan-US tournament), but well, you know, hopping between Seattle and San Francisco is time-consuming.When last we visited our...
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July 25, 2011
Short takes
You remember Ryuji Tachibana? The guy who went to the Mets in '97 as a conditioning coach, and worked for Bobby Valentine for several years with the Marines, and so on? Yeah, this guy? Apparently he's been working with the Rikkio University team as a coach as well. I believe Kenichi Yazawa is still working with the Tokyo University team off and on too. Wouldn't it be amazing...
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July 16, 2011
Photopost: Japan-US College Tourney, Game 2 -- Cary On
This is the game that was supposed to happen Monday night but became the morning game of a double-header on Tuesday. Originally, had Game 2 happened as planned in Durham, Game 3 was going to be at 7pm on Tuesday night in Cary, but instead, they put Game 2 at 11am in Cary, and then had Game 3 at 6pm in Durham. For those wondering, they're really only 20 minutes apart or so. We...
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July 09, 2011
Japan-US College Tourney, Day 2 -- Rained Out
If you're here looking for info about the game, the short version is: it rained out, and they're doing a doubleheader tomorrow, 11am in Cary, 6pm in Durham.So, today we arrived at Durham Bulls Athletic Park at 4:30pm, for a 5pm gates opening, for a 6:05pm game. (Why do they open the gates so late? Sigh.) At 4:45pm, it started raining and lightning and thundering.At 5pm they opened...
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July 04, 2011
Photopost: Japan-US College Tourney, Day 1 -- Battle of Big Innings
I'm in North Carolina! And as promised, I'm posting about the US-Japan tourney!I had a pretty great day at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park today, watching the Japanese national collegiate team take on the US national collegiate team. I was so ridiculously happy when I got into the stadium and saw the guys warming up. I was just like "There's Fukutani! And Itoh! And Mikami! And...
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July 04, 2011
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