Category Archives: Baseball, Softball, and Judo

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.
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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 time. [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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How to enjoy Japanese baseball playoff 2009

Since my team (Boston Red Sox) is knocked out of the MLB playoff, and really, I can’t get into any of the four teams that is left, I’ve decided to pay close(r) attention to Japanese baseball league, Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). So, here is quick “how to enjoy 2009 NPB playoff” if anyone wants to [...]
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Translation of curious Hideki Matsui story in Sankei Sports

There is a story about free agent outfielder/designated hitter Hideki Matsui possibly targeted by the Boston Red Sox that ran in Sankei Sports in October 16th, 2009. Per request, I have translated it here. original story can be found here (broken link). “Red Sox targets Hideki Matsui as replacement for Bay” It is become known [...]
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Japanese-Americans (Nisei and Sansei, Yonsei and Happa) playing (or played) in the Major League Baseball

I’ve been collecting information off- and on-line about baseball players who made it to the Majors of Japanese ancestry background. It has been tough because there is no record for of half- or quarter- Japanese, but it has been a very interesting process. Recently at a convention, I met very knowledgeable sports reporter from Honolulu [...]
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Japanese pitchers facing off: Kawakami vs Matsuzaka

Today (June 19, 2009) at Fenway Park in Boston, two Japan-born pitchers will start the game against each other in the match up of Kenshin Kawakami for the Atlanta Braves and Daisuke Matsuzaka for the Boston Red Sox. This is the 5th time that has happened in the history of MLB. Here are the all [...]
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1965 Topps baseball cards

SABR (Society of American Baseball Research) New England chapter holds couple meetings every year (usually spring and winter). They had one today, and I attended the morning portion of it and it was, as always, pretty inspiring. What I love about baseball is that it is such a fascinating subject, there are so many different [...]
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