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Opinion Pieces
Toreba no Toraba: White or Yellow Christmas?
As seen in T-Ray’s Japanese Column in Daily Sports No matter how long I live in Japan, it still feels a little lonely that Christmas is not celebrated around me. Even stranger for this toque-donning Canuck is a December 25th without snow on the ground. During this holiday season, memories of my childhood come flooding…
Toreba no Toraba: Getting into Playing Shape
As Seen in T-Ray’s Japanese Column in Daily Sports As of December 1, NPB players are officially on winter vacation. Naturally, they keep practicing and working out on their own – it’s what players do away from coaches and media that determines their greatness. Year in and year out, they strive to put on the…
Toreba no Toraba: Proficiently Tigerific
Original Article (also written by T-Ray) can be Found Here デイリースポーツの記事はこちら There’s some validity to people boasting that the proof of their Hanshin Tigers fandom is in their fan club membership. But then, all that really requires is a few hundred yen a month, and if you attend enough games, your investment pays for itself…
Players Make History, Team Misses Playoffs
Wednesday night in Hiroshima, Randy Messenger left the mound after six innings of work, and down a run to the Carp. He had just set the NPB all-time record for career strikeouts by an import. His strikeout of Seiya Suzuki was the 1416th of his NPB career, one ahead of Genji Kaku, a Taiwanese native…
Toreba no Toraba: In Search of Ohtani II
Original Article (also Written by T-Ray) Can Be Found Here The news came just three days after his manager told the media he was not concerned about his prodigy’s shortened start on the mound (September 2). A new tear in the UCL in his right arm. His throwing arm. The two-way player would have to…
T-Ray’s Tiger Weekend (Part 3)
Japanese presentation about the Hanshin Tigers for a group of fans? Check. Hanshin Tigers proficiency test (expert level) with little preparation? Check. How to cap off the weekend? Easy. Fulfill one of the rewards of the H-TEN Kickstarter Campaign: a day at Koshien with T-Ray. One kind soul, Mr. Stephen Greene (CEO of RockCorps), generously…
Toreba no Toraba: Home Away from Home
Daily Sports Article (in Japanese) Here “I’m home!” That is to say, I returned “home” to Canada for a few weeks, and now I’m back “home” in Japan. And the Hanshin Tigers are also about to make their return “home” to Koshien Stadium (where they are playing 17-25-1 ball). It was hard to watch baseball…
Toreba no Toraba: The Gift of Koshien
T-Ray Original (in Japanese) in Daily Sports here Summer vacation is upon us at long last. School’s out and the kids are free to do whatever they want. Well, most kids. A select few hundred boys are getting ready to stand on the most important stage of their lives. That’s right — while the Hanshin…
Why I Still Don’t Like Kanemoto (Part 3)
By now, you’ve probably noticed that I am not particularly fond of Hanshin manager Tomoaki Kanemoto. I liked him some in his first year, though he was really learning the job on the fly. In his second year, he started to come into his own, but he also started grating on my nerves, as heard in Episode…