Just a few things while I stagger under the weight of an entry about Sunday:We Love HichorillusionOur centerfielder is cooler than your centerfielder, because your centerfielder certainly does not do things like put a stunt double of himself in the dugout and then rapel down from the dome ceiling.The Fighters beat the Marines 3-2 tonight. Positives for the Marines are that Satozaki hit another home...

The Baystars extended my personal record with them to 4-1 as they smashed the Yakult Swallows 10-5, in a nice cool evening game on Monday night at Meiji Jingu, featuring the return of Daisuke "Hama no Bancho" Miura to the mound after a 2-month injury hiatus, and two home runs hit by Yuuki Yoshimura. It was on a national holiday, "Umi no Hi", otherwise known as "Marine Day" or "Ocean Day" or "A real...

It was Shunsuke Day and the Marines won 16-0, Shunsuke Watanabe throwing a complete game shutout on 88 pitches. This is definitely the most runs they've scored all year, and even one of the biggest landslides in recent team history.It was also my first time in 2 years attempting to breach the rightfield stands, but this time I had "protection". I was at the game with my friend Yayoi and her friends...

Last Friday afternoon, I went down to Fighters Town Kamagaya to see the "Futures" exhibition game. The "Futures" games happen occasionally (lots of information about them here in Japanese), and basically, one ni-gun team plays against a team assembled from various guys from the other teams in their league. I think the only rule is that the Futures players have had no ichi-gun experience. Seems like...

I think it is safe to say that today was easily one of my best experiences as a Fighters fan ever. The only way it could have possibly been better would have been if, well, the Fighters had actually won the game.To sum up:- I met Lisa (writer of the Orientalmix blog) - She had gotten us free tickets to the game from a coworker- We had lunch at the Baseball Cafe and watched part of the MLB All Star...