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Pastrymancy posted:They're warming him up in the bullpen right now And he got the last 3 outs in the 9th! Congratulations to the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles for winning their first Japan Series!
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I'm a Hanshin Tigers fan, so gently caress the Giants and I'm glad they lost. 
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So about 12 months ago, the Canberra Calvary were dead last in the Australian baseball league. This year, despite their payroll of roughly $45,000, they won the Claxton Shield (the ABL title) and with it the chance to represent Australia in the Asia Series, against champions of much higher-profile leagues like Korea and Taiwan. Surprised by the facilities in Taichung, much better than on offer in 'Straya (20,000 seat stadiums! Individual lockers! Toilets adjacent to the dugouts!), they just decided to have a little fun. And you know what they did? Win the whole fuckin' thing.
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Didn't see a 2014 thread so figured this would make sense a place to post this, I guess? I'm going to be in Tokyo for opening day of next season and looking at the schedule it appears there will be games both at Tokyo Dome and at Jingu Stadium. Should I make an effort to go to one of those over the other? Or just try and go to games at both?
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I think I'm going to PM a mod soonish to ask to get the thread title changed, since this probably isn't fast or big enough to warrant yearly threads. Unless someone else wants to make a new one and I'll close this one. Either way, suggest some names.
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Troy Queef posted:So about 12 months ago, the Canberra Calvary were dead last in the Australian baseball league. This year, despite their payroll of roughly $45,000, they won the Claxton Shield (the ABL title) and with it the chance to represent Australia in the Asia Series, against champions of much higher-profile leagues like Korea and Taiwan. Surprised by the facilities in Taichung, much better than on offer in 'Straya (20,000 seat stadiums! Individual lockers! Toilets adjacent to the dugouts!), they just decided to have a little fun. And the half a mil prize money gets distributed evenly through the ABL too, so a nice benefit for everyone
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Seems like a good spot to post it, but the NPB announced their hall of fame class this year, it includes 2 former major leaguers and someone who probably could have been in the majors at one point: Hideo Nomo, Kazuhiro Sasaki, and Koji Akiyama Hooray for Nomo and Sasaki 
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Jan 18, 2014 21:22
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Right this second we have Game 2 of Day 8 of Spring Koshien going: http://www.mbs.jp/senbatsu/live/ As well as Marines vs. Hawks: http://www.justin.tv/gyon_hd602ch Get excited! e: Fighters v. Buffalos: http://www.justin.tv/donsen6 Lions v. Eagles: http://www.justin.tv/miyamu2 mikeycp fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Mar 29, 2014 |
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Mar 29, 2014 05:26
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Kosuke Fukudome and Tsuyoshi Nishioka of the Hanshin Tigers had one of the worst outfield collisions ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QALAdIiOT60 Fukudome is staying in the game, Nishioka was down for over 10 minutes and was just taken off on an ambulance.
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fisting by many posted:Kosuke Fukudome and Tsuyoshi Nishioka of the Hanshin Tigers had one of the worst outfield collisions ever. Oh my god... They basically collided directly head-on-head so hard that one guy did half a back flip.
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fisting by many posted:Kosuke Fukudome and Tsuyoshi Nishioka of the Hanshin Tigers had one of the worst outfield collisions ever. I just saw the gifs you posted in the gif thread; that's terrifying.  I can only hope Nishioka isn't destroyed for life.
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Not only did both of those guys spend time recently playing in North America, but while he was over here Nishioka was the recipient of a broken fibula courtesy of Robinson Cano very early in his first season with the Twins thanks to planting his leg hard on a takeout slide. Dude can't catch a--hrm. Dude is very unlucky
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loving ouch. I hope he gets better soon. Apparently he has a broken nose, slight concussion, and a chest contusion, so it could be a lot worse. On that note, @JNYakyu is a pretty good twitter to follow, especially for these kinds of things.
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This site has multiple stream links to every game every day. Some links don't always work but there's almost always at least one that does. They list the team names in Chinese however so you may have trouble deciphering them. Also, non-juiced baseballs will finally begin circulating next week (Yes, the balls were juiced again this year, although this time it was the manufacturer's fault and it was discovered immediately through scheduled testing). Finally, here's my favorite picture of the season so far. Naoyuki Uwasawa's face after losing a no-hitter in the 7th. 
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So, for whatever reason, tonight the Tigers are playing the Giants while wearing Oakland A's colors...It's sort of strange.
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And Matt Murton just got out by being hit with a batted ball. Not sure I have ever seen that before. It's the uniforms
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Crion posted:Not only did both of those guys spend time recently playing in North America, but while he was over here Nishioka was the recipient of a broken fibula courtesy of Robinson Cano very early in his first season with the Twins thanks to planting his leg hard on a takeout slide. Dude can't catch a--hrm. Dude is very unlucky Nick Swisher
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May 9, 2014 20:54
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Wow, this season Hiroshima carps have a good run! Finally!
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Something that took me an embarrassingly long time to realize: PA-TV, the pacific league's version of mlb.tv, only bans foreigners from actually subscribing to the service. You can still watch the free highlight videos from anywhere. They upload a ダイジェスト (digest) video for each game as well as a bunch of highlights, or you can hover over the game score banners and click the bottom link to see all the highlights from that particular game If you're a central league fan, this is the only time that site is going to be of any use to you as CL owners are all a bunch of greedy luddites and hate the idea of baseball being available on media platforms they don't own. Sorry 
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fisting by many posted:Something that took me an embarrassingly long time to realize: PA-TV, the pacific league's version of mlb.tv, only bans foreigners from actually subscribing to the service. You can still watch the free highlight videos from anywhere.  For what it's worth though the service still works for me if I've got a foreign VPN active when streaming a live game. I wish it streamed in 720 or 1080, but since most people are probably watching on mobile devices I can understand a little bit why it's this way. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than MLB.tv too, so you get what you pay for. Also worth pointing out you get something like a 33% discount on streaming if you're a fan club member for any PL team.
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May 25, 2014 15:18
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This might actually be worth learning about VPN's and struggling through the subscription process with Google translate if I can watch live Marines games. Thanks for the heads up!
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May 25, 2014 16:56
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This catch. Watch it.  http://gfycat.com/BruisedInfamousAnnelid video (requires Nico Nico account) http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm23735583
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So uh this Shohei Ohtani guy can throw the ball fast I hear. He decided to throw basically all fastballs in his one inning in the NPB's All-Star series because why not all his pitches, in km/h 161,162,159,160 161,160,160,159 160,158,158,160,160 161,159,132,161,159,133,159,157 162,159 161 was the NPB record  (160 km/h = 100 mph) Here's that first at-bat with the commentators going nuts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqCFexhfqZE
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I think one of the few advantages that the US standard has over the metric system is that 100 MPH is such an amazing round number for "holy poo poo that pitch is fast" while 161 is kinda just out there somewhere. Like it's cool when Verlander used to hit 99 in the 9th inning, and when Chapman throws it 104 you poo poo yourself.
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fisting by many posted:So uh this Shohei Ohtani guy can throw the ball fast I hear. He's pretty good A 19 year old who has a 2.23 ERA & 10.9 K/9 The best part, he plays OF on his off days and is batting .282/.345/.496 in 145 PA
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Crimson Sox posted:He's pretty good He's amazing. I will treasure my Calbee card forever  Speaking of noteworthy pitching, Shun Yamaguchi had quite a start today. In four pitches he managed to give up two singles and a double. Then the fifth one went off Kazuhiro Wada's head and got him ejected. His entire outing is memorialized in this grainy, 5 second long video.
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I'm not really into kokoyakyu but incredible moment from the finals of a Koshien qualifying tournament as Seiryo head into the bottom of the 9th trailing Komatsu Ohtani 8-0 and twenty minutes of magic later are headed to Koshien. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pj29HBpUqc Highlights (because I'm the only one dorky enough to watch the whole thing) 6:30 - Seiryo player reaches 2nd on a strikeout 9:25 - 2 RBI hit (8-4) 10:55 - 2-run homer (8-6) 15:40 - Seiryo player dives into 1st to prevent game-ending DP (8-7) 17:55 - Tie game! 19:20 - Sayonaraaaaaaa fisting by many fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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I'm pretty excited for Koshien next month. It is next month, right?
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fisting by many posted:He's amazing. I will treasure my Calbee card forever This dude fuckin owns. I've watched him pitch and the crowd goes nuts.
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fisting by many posted:I'm not really into kokoyakyu but incredible moment from the finals of a Koshien qualifying tournament as Seiryo head into the bottom of the 9th trailing Komatsu Ohtani 8-0 and twenty minutes of magic later are headed to Koshien. both teams crying at this end This is why Koshien owns
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fisting by many posted:I'm not really into kokoyakyu but incredible moment from the finals of a Koshien qualifying tournament as Seiryo head into the bottom of the 9th trailing Komatsu Ohtani 8-0 and twenty minutes of magic later are headed to Koshien. Just caught this from one of the MLB twitter feeds, and watched the whole thing - pretty awesome stuff.
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I might have a chance at attending a game in the last week in the season. Typically, how far in advance would I, a filthy gaijin, need to buy a ticket? Furthermore, are there particular sections I should try to sit in? Would a tourist/non-devotee be ostracized in a certain cheering section? If it helps, I'd be able to either catch Fighters @ Marines or Carp @ Swallows. I'd rather catch Carp/Swallows to see a bunch of malcontent old Pirates, but either would be awesome.
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ALFbrot posted:I might have a chance at attending a game in the last week in the season. Typically, how far in advance would I, a filthy gaijin, need to buy a ticket? The Marines and Swallows have the lowest and second lowest attendance in NPB respectively. You'll be able to buy tickets at the stadium before the game. You wouldn't be ostracized but you would probably find it weird sitting in the outfield - those are the cheering sections and pretty much everyone in those sections are singing the cheer songs and going ape the whole time the other team isn't batting. But if you can pick up the songs I'd recommend it, sitting in the ouendan was the most fun I've ever had attending a total shitshow of a game. This page has most of the ones in use plus english lyrics for the Marines, I don't have a similar resource for other teams. Typically the home supporters sit on the first base side and the visitor supporters sit on the third base line. This isn't really "strict" for sideline seating as obviously there are more home supporters, but if you sat on the third base side you would expect to see a few more visitor fans. It is strict when it comes to the outfield though. There's a home cheering section and a visitor cheering section. It would be weird as hell if you were in the wrong one. This English site has a bit of information about attending a Swallows game.
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fisting by many posted:The Marines and Swallows have the lowest and second lowest attendance in NPB respectively. You'll be able to buy tickets at the stadium before the game. Awesome, thanks a ton!
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So with justin.tv gone finding streams with Japanese audio just got significantly more difficult. If anyone has resources to help with this issue please post them.
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http://japan0002.chatango.com/ Has multiple links to most NPB games. Seems to be posted an hour or so before game time. e: didn't see the japanese audio part  Well, they had j.tv links before, so maybe some links are japanese audio. I figure the people that were using j.tv will just move to ustream or something.
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Koshien begins in 3 hours! I believe you will be able to watch the games here: http://koshien.asahi.co.jp/cockpit/live/ The same site had been streaming it in previous years. You can find the schedule here: http://yakyubaka.com/2014/08/06/862014-96th-summer-koshien-tournament-schedule/
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I get unreasonably excited about seeing some teenagers throw baseballs for a long time, possibly ruining their arms.
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