Yokohama unexpectedly one the Japanese baseball championship this year. I followed them all year. I saw they had great potential. I thought deeply about why they were flawed in the way they were flawed and if they could ever overcome it. They were a third place team. Barely over 500. And the playoffs set up…
I mean, wow. That was a lot. That was really completely a lot. I don’t even know where to start with this but I think I just experienced my greatest baseball moment as a fan in my life. About the game. The climax series in Japan is designed so the first place team has every…
Listen. I think I need to talk to you. This was one of those moments in life where, when you look back years later, you either did it well or you didn’t. Perhaps the world really wasn’t this dramatic and obviously, the drama was more on his side than on hers. She was simply living…
I think the Japanese bring suffering to new levels. I try to walk the fine line between Zen perfectionism and masochistic obsessive compulsive problems. I don’t mean to generalize or objectify. This is not the point. I’m just saying that I love watching Japanese baseball but this is a new level of torture to have…
I have been doing a lot of thinking about sports and especially baseball lately. American football is starting and it does show up on my algorithm that I’m interested. I played American football. I understand a little bit about American football. Do I like American football? Not like I did when I was growing up. …
The former batting champion has taken a downward turn. From the laser ball opening night of his new stay in Japan when he electrified a stadium and the imagination of the entire fan base to the current ghosting of the lineup. A batting average that wants to go to 200 or lower. Too many opportunities…
From the San Francisco Chronicle Willie Mays, the spirited center fielder whose brilliance at the plate, in the field and on the basepaths for the Giants led many to call him the greatest all-around player in baseball history, died on Tuesday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 93. Larry Baer, the president and chief executive…
Just a moment from today’s baseball game. The Bay Stars are playing the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, one of the more difficult baseball names or ownerships for me to handle. I have a hard enough time following the pollution laden wealth that runs Japan and baseball. It is a relationship that could become so sour in…
I’m putting together a volume called baseball and there is a passage that concerns Mr Trevor Bauer who is currently pitching lights out down in Mexico. You can check out the post here. A short visit with Trevor Bauer While you’re there, we have a couple of new and interesting movies available at the Utopian…
Here is a message to everyone who plays baseball who might someday be asked to perform a sacrifice. I’m not talking about giving up your girlfriend for the season. I’m talking about giving away an out in the hope that something wonderful will happen. Basically playing for one run. Bunting is the best of this….
Our ever challenging staff of news hounds here at the Utopian! have uncovered some seriously devious business from the previously thought virginal Shohei Ohtani. Though the entirety of the United States agreed unilaterally that there was no greater baseball player humanly possible then this young man who could both pitch and hit. He was really…
Transportation stops: Disease control: Maximum lockdown on movement: Marijuana wins in the election: The president of course is all in because being outside in the fresh air is all we ever need. Putin is advised globally: The truth of the psychosis is made clear: It was getting even for being raped so many times that…
All right, I admit I get dark and I get by with a little help from my friends. I can’t stand it. I can’t stand it. First of all, I’ve never turned on the automatic translator until today for these guys. But they were setting up to do something like a serious podcast wearing black…
A well-known but at the moment preferring to remain anonymous super super genie Godzilla brain scientist who basically just wipes the floor with Magnuson just for a warm up during breakfast tea has discovered the flaw in the ointment. You can’t play a decent Jewish game on a four-sided commitment. And thus opens up a…