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Waseda's Yuhei Takanashi pitches a perfect game 24 Apr 2013 | 06:16 am
Kinda surprised I haven't seen ANY coverage of this in English, so as usual I guess it's my job to write about the Tokyo Big 6 happenings :) Of course this had to happen right AFTER I came back to th...
Brief Japan Interlude 17 Apr 2013 | 02:48 am
So, I went to Tokyo for 2 weeks from March 30 to April 16. Just got back to the US a few hours ago. I went to a few games: I guess 16 games in 16 days isn't bad, especially given that some days I d...
Nichidai Sanko, One Year Later 15 Mar 2013 | 01:24 pm
I've had this post sitting in the "draft" state for almost a year. How silly. Anyway, I was a huge fan of the Nichidai San HS team that managed to win the Jingu Taikai in fall 2010 and the entirety o...
A Picture Is Worth 2012 Words 15 Jan 2013 | 02:54 pm
I forgot to do this last year, didn't I. But you can go back and see 2010 and before... Anyway, I was finally going through some stuff in my room and found my collection of tickets from last year (wh...
Draft 2012 Liveblogging! 25 Oct 2012 | 03:43 pm
One more hour until the draft! OMG! Since I'm not in Japan this year I'll be hoping to catch a justin.tv broadcast of the TV part, and I'll just be watching the picks come in on various news sources ...
2012 Draft! 24 Oct 2012 | 01:37 pm
Hi everyone. I AM planning to liveblog the draft this year, just as I have every year since 2006 or so. Yeah, I'm back in the US, but I'm planning to be up until at least 3am my time, which means I c...
Daily Reporter at Kamagaya -- Sept 26 27 Sep 2012 | 07:35 pm
I was actually somewhat specifically asked to blog about this experience, so I'm writing an entry. I guess maybe there are still readers of this blog who don't know me in other channels, but I'm back...
Photopost: Rainiers vs. Sky Sox - Cheney Field Trip! 25 Jul 2012 | 01:32 am
Last weekend I was up in Seattle for the Microsoft Puzzle Safari, but I also had a side goal of trying to go stalk Brian Sweeney. I'd noticed a few months ago that he and Luis Jimenez were on the Rai...
Photopost etc: Eri Yoshida pitches in San Rafael! 17 Jul 2012 | 05:44 am
When I was about 5 years old, someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said I wanted to be a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. My mom told me that girls couldn't become baseball...
4th of July in Oakland: The You, Ess, and A's 11 Jul 2012 | 06:06 am
This story actually starts towards the end of June. It was a grumpy morning for me, I was running late for work, was feeling pretty tired, really just wanted to go back to sleep. I walked into the BAR...
