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Spring Comes Early to Ishigaki

It’s cold in Chiba but warm in Ishigaki! The 2012 NPB season is starting to warm up with Spring Camp in full swing. Apologies if you see this article before I’ve fixed the formatting on the site! It’s a bit messed up right now. I’ve taken a little 3-day swing down south to check out […]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Your 2011 Chiba Lotte Marines

Really, I do still exist. This blog has been adrift somewhere between the afterglow of the stunning run to the 2010 Nippon Series title, the disaster in Tohoku (and Kanto), and the first 36 games of the 2011 season. I’ve been quiet far too long! I haven’t taken so many pictures yet this year due

A Parade of Shotas – 2010 NPB Draft

Right smack dab in the middle of the run up to the Nippon Series is the 2010 Draft. I’m of course quite interested in seeing the young players get distributed to the teams (and the best to ours, naturally!) but quite honestly I know next to nothing about the high school and university players (other

2010 Nippon Series CHAMPIONS!

Victory Parade Information The Victory Parade is on Sunday 21 November in Makuhari. It starts at 11am and should last an hour. After the parade there will be a celebration at Chiba Marine Stadium! The best part about the parade for those who cannot attend – it will be broadcast on the internet! Here’s the

Climax Series – First Stage Information

The Pacific League Climax Series First Stage games featuring Our Men of Lotte versus the despised Seibu Lions take place this weekend, 9-11 October, at Seibu Dome (or, as Deanna calls it, Seibu Dump). All games are at 13:00 and are hopelessly, impossibly sold out. I think they must have sold out in minutes. I

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