Welcome…
...to Daigo’s Daily Digital Diorama. This is utterly useless online journal (yes, that was what it was originally called before term "blog") that I've been keeping since 2002. Since it is ".org," my wife once called it a nonprofit nonsense. I use this blog mostly about baseball, and being Japanese man in America. Wondering who the heck Daigo is?
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On Twitter
- Watching NESN's 5/10/99 game replay, it just hit me. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WAS 10 YEARS AGO! 9 mins ago
- @toeingtherubber also saw a lot of Frank Costillo games since my Japanese friends only went to games started by Pedoro or Nomo in 01! :) in reply to toeingtherubber 22 mins ago
- @toeingtherubber I went to Northeastern and used to get half off ticket from scalpers after 2nd innings... in reply to toeingtherubber 23 mins ago
- @CMSBMatty I know! Waaaay Back! He played in Japan twice, 2002 with Yomiuri Giants and last year with Seibu Lions. Was released in October. in reply to CMSBMatty 31 mins ago
- More updates...
My websites
Daigo’s readings- Red Sox loving this Daisuke Matsuzaka - BostonHerald.com Sunday, March 7, 2010
- Igawa Working to Be Pitcher Yankees Thought He Was - New York Times Sunday, March 7, 2010
- asahi.com(朝日新聞社):10 Questions with Norichika Aoki - English Friday, March 5, 2010
- Roberto Barbon, Japan’s First Latin Baseball Player, Still Feels at Home - NYTimes.com Friday, March 5, 2010
- Boston Red Sox - With Bard, bar is raised - The Boston Globe Friday, February 19, 2010
- Mets' Japanese Pitchers Trying to Fit in Together - New York Times Friday, February 19, 2010
- Atchison returns to the Red Sox for a good reason - WEEI blog Rob Bradford Friday, February 19, 2010
- Keith Law on D&H: The 2010 Sox, the farm system, and ‘useless’ statistics - WEEI blog WEEI Thursday, February 18, 2010
- Papelbon applies tape, and gets back out there - Boston Globe Amalie Benjamin Wednesday, February 17, 2010
- Money player - Boston Globe Amalie Benjamin Sunday, February 14, 2010
Category Archives: Baseball, Softball, and Judo
Japan’s knuckleball princess
Japan’s 18-year-old knuckleball princess, Eri Yoshida, is participating in instructional Arizona Winter League. And now I read that she is named a starter for the Opening Day game.
Yoshida to Start Friday
The Arizona Winter League (AWL) announced Japanese RHP Eri Yoshida, the 18-year old female knuckleball phenom from Japan, will start on Opening Night for [...]
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Japanese pitchers and uniform number 18
Blog called Mets by the numbers had a kind of interesting post about significance of uniform numbers in Japanese culture: Why Igarashi Was Issued No. 18, following the news that Mets’ new reliever, Ryota Igarashi, picked the uniform number of 18 this year.
Of course, our man Daisuke Matsuzaka wears number 18 for the Boston [...]
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Translating Japanese (or any other language, for that matter) is hard.
Whoa. I thought, by translating Daisuke Matsuzaka interview on the Magazine Friday, I was passing on a good news (Matsuzaka admits his wrong doing last year and will come back in 2010 with something to prove). But it turns out that it was first time the club lerned about the injury (yikes), and he may [...]
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Daisuke Matsuzaka’s confession, translated.
Daisuke Matsuzaka talked to the Japanese entertainment news and gossip weekly magazine “FRIDAY” in Japan. He talked about his difficult season and revealed that he actually hurt his right inner thigh before joining Japanese team for World Baseball Classic (which he was awarded his second MVP for winning all three games he started). It is [...]
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Mosty baseball rumors and reactions, Twitter for 2009-12-20
Busy twitter week as there were lots of baseball transactions. Red Sox get John Lackey and MIke Cameron, Hideki Matsui signs with Angels, Ryota Igarashi with Mets, and two former-Cy Young winner moves in a block buster deal between Blue Jays-Mariners-Phillies. Geez I tweet a lot about baseball.
Arn Tellem: Godzilla Rocks Southern California
In Huffington Post, I found this post by Hideki Matsui’s agent: Arn Tellem: Godzilla Rocks Southern California. Matsui just signed a one-year deal with the Angels.
In the weeks since the Series victory, it became abundantly clear that resigning Hideki was not one of the Yankees’ priorities. Hideki’s overriding concerns have always been winning and [...]
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Hideki Matsui in “red”
One of the biggest news in Japanese baseball front in this MLB hot stove season is that Hideki Matsui left the New York Yankees and signed with Los Angeles Angels. Seeing him wear Angels uniform for the first time was as strange as when I saw Nomar Garciaparra in Cubs uniform for the first [...]
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Twitter for 2009-12-13
This week, my twitter was mostly about getting Red Sox tickets in the virtual waiting room. I got one for April 17, Saturday game for the family! Pretty exciting.
How Adrian Gonzalez will benefit from Green Monster
From Nick Cafardo’s blog entry in Boston.com’s Extra Bases:
… The Red Sox would love Gonzalez, a lefthanded hitter who hits a lot of balls to left and left-center, in their lineup, but so far there’s been no movement by the Padres to swing a deal with two years remaining on Gonzalez’s contract.
I took a [...]
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How will Japanese players fare in 2010, according to the Bill James Handbook