[Note: For my baseball related thoughts, see blog.japaneseballplayers.com. This article is also on there. Thank you, Patrick Newman of NPB Tracker for linking to this post!] Boy, those West-coast late night games are tough. Especially the Red Sox are notorious for long games (as Bill Simmons of ESPN points out, in first 101 games of [...]
Today is MLB ALl-Star game. My man Ichiro Suzuki have now made it to the All Star 10 years in the row. He is just amazing. I read somewhere that Ichiro and Jeter tandem have never lost a All-Star game. Anyway, here is my favorite image of all time, courtesy of whitehouse photography!
Kenichi Zenimura is in between Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, in 1927 Nisei Baseball Research Project has started its campain to nominate Kenichi Zenimura, the Father of Japanese American Baseball, for the National Baseball Hall of Fame Buck ONeil Lifetime Achievement Award. (Press Reliese about nominations being accepted) Nominations for the award must be submitted [...]
NBA Finals is on between Boston Celtics and LA Lakers. I noticed that it seems every time Red Sox win the game, Celtics seems to lose and when Red Sox loses, Celtics wins. I had to look it up. And here it is. I was right except for the first game. Game 1 6/3 Celts [...]
There is an awesome Japanese Baseball blog called Yakyu Baka, which is updated daily and with bunch of great information. I noticed couple of articles about Japanese “Knuckleball Princess” Eri Yoshida on WSJ and NYTimes and posted a link on my facebook/twitter acounts, (follow me at @DaigoFuji for English and @DaigoRedSox for Japanese) but Gen [...]
“You gotta have Wa” (one of my favorite book of all time) author Robert Whiting has just concluded crazy 4-part series about how once-super-popular Bobby Valentine was almost jettisoned from Chiba Lotte Marines, on Japan Times online. Part 1: Clandestine campaign led to Valentines demise Part 2: Valentines philosophy brought Marines glory, money Part 3: [...]
I was inspired by Boston Globe’s Chad Finn’s posting on Extra Bases blog called Some interesting numbers via Bill James , and decided to look up what the projections of Japanese players for the year 2010 from the 2010 edition of the Bill James Handbook. According to James and his company, Ichiro will make History [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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