2011 Japan Series award winners: (from left) Kazuki Yoshimi, Kazuhiro Wada, Hiroki Kokubo, Brian Falkenborg, Toshiya Sugiuchi Disappointing ending for a Chunichi Dragons fan here, but because of 311 disaster, this year’s Japan Series went to the end of November. It is almost amazing that it was only March this year… feels like long time [...]
My Dragons lost, but it was a good series. Went to the game 7, and home field advantage, at the end, did pay off. Chunichi losing all three at home didn’t help… *** I been tweeting nonsense since May 19, 2007 (over 4 years, can you believe that?). I put weekly digests of my tweets [...]
Norichika Aoki has one of more very unique batting stance. Show here in a picture taken by a pro yakyu fan. Yaklut Swallows outfielder Norichika Aoki will bring his high on-base percentage to the Majors next year. It’s official. He hit .329/.402/.454 in 8 yrs. Here is his stats: Year Team G PA AB R [...]
Japan Playoff: Oh com'on! Dragons dropped another close one. 2-1 Swallows & series is now tied, 2-2. Norichika Aoki's go-ahead RBI in T5. 09:33:37, 2011-11-04 ESPN's @KeithLaw ranks top 50 free agents. Yu Darvish 3rd, Chen Wei-Yin 19th, Kyuji Fujikawa 45, Hisashi Iwakuma 49 http://t.co/1XbUD68z 09:26:27, 2011-11-04 Japan Playoff: The invaluable YakyuBaka (by @gwynar) has [...]
Game 6 of world series was just amazing. What a game. Here is the fangraphs’ win probability chart. Source: FanGraphs To quote a tweet from Bill Chuck: Game 6 was so exciting Josh Beckett nearly spilled his beer. I been tweeting nonsense since May 19, 2007 (over 4 years, can you believe that?). I put [...]
I don’t want to see the end of the baseball season. So I am rooting for this sereis to go as long as it can. I been tweeting nonsense since May, 2007 (over 4 years, can you believe that?). I put weekly digests of my tweets on my blog, so that I can search for [...]
My home town team, Chunichi Dragons won the Central League this season! Congrats to the Dragons and my family and friends, who rooted for the team. Excellent!! I been tweeting nonsense since May, 2007 (over 4 years, can you believe that?). I put weekly digests of my tweets on my blog, so that I can [...]
I been tweeting nonsense since May 19, 2007 (over 4 years, can you believe that?). I put weekly digests of my tweets on my blog, so that I can search for it quicker using my blog’s search function. I tweet awfully a lot about baseball (I am a Red Sox fan), but if you are [...]
Whoa. Google chart tools. Awesome. Pretty darn easy. Amazing stuff. Now it is easy to see that I am single-track minded. 100% baseball related tweets this week. I am batting 1.000, to use a baseball metaphor. My options are width:390, height:250, chartArea:{left:0,top:18,width:390,height:232}, colors:['#314836','#8bad93','#e0edd0'], is3D:true, title: ‘Breakdown of my tweets’} I been tweeting nonsense since May [...]
MLB Opener in Japan 2012? I was there at 2008 games betweeb Red Sox and A’s and had a blast! Photo of Hideki Okajima facing off Nikkei-Sansei Kurt Suzuki I had a interesting back and forth with Mike Plugh of Matsuzaka Watch about Yu Darvish, who is the next big thing from Japan and tearing [...]
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