Category Archives: Baseball

Great reading on Bobby Valentine, by Robert Whiting

“You gotta have Wa” 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 Valentine’s demise Part 2: Valentine’s philosophy brought Marines glory, money Part 3: Resentment of Valentine’s power factored in downfall Part 4: History, tradition [...]
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How will Japanese players fare in 2010, according to the Bill James Handbook

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 [...]
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Reading baseball news on mobile phones

After struggling for a while, I found that Google Reader is one of the best tools to keep being updated on the go. This is how I read news on Windows Mobile-based T-Mobile Shadow (awesome community site at AllShadows.com). Key is to be selective on what you subscribe. It can be easily out of hand. [...]
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Updating a mobile site, JapaneseBallPlayers.com/m

I’ve made both of my Japanese language WordPress websites into mobile ready sites. Thanks to Alex King’s WP-Mobile plugin. They are located at japaneseballplayers.com/podcats and go-redsox.com. Unfortunately, my phone is not Japanese language ready, so I was unable to se eit but a friend from Japan checked it out on his softbank phone and it [...]
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Progress report

I’ve added bunch of links today and organized the links into three categories that matter to me Baseball, News and Weather. I’ve also started experimenting with Google Ads (gulp) and such. I’ve found couple more directory type website, so I figured to post it up here: WAP Review Pocket Optimized
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Random mobile links (favorite dump)

Google Boston.com NY Times NHK World English Zedge.net allshadow Twitter Boston.com Google User Agent String AlexKing.org/who daigo.org Watertown Weather.com Weather Underground mobile WUnd Watertown Accuweather.com Watertown m.flickr.com Microsoft MSN Popular mobile sites Useful from PC: User Agent Switcher for FireFox Alex King’s WP mobile edition
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Purpose of this site

What I am hoping to get accomplished here is a mobile phone portal for baseball fans, like myself. Eventually for Japanese people, but I can’t read Japanese charactors with my phone, so it may take a while. I’ve got long way to go, I know, but I am going to get there…
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