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    NPB & other Asia-Pac leagues 2024

    I've got my tickets in hand for Yakult Swallows Opening Day, just a few hours from now and a few miles up the road, at historic Jingu Stadium. So it's time to get the annual thread rolling, though this a bit of a placeholder post. Jingu is, I believe, one of the last four stadiums still...
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    Roki Sasaki MLB watch -- 2025 probably?

    Using a few of these as a jumping off point, and sorry I'm missing some good explanatory posts on Roki's status that I've read over the last couple days from iirc @jon abbey @JM3 and others but: Here's what I wrote exactly a year ago in the Yoshida thread, in response to a question from...
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    Accessing iTunes (not Apple TV+) on a new tv

    We got a new TV (Panasonic, if that matters), the first that we've had where there are pre-set buttons on the remote for Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, Disney+ etc etc. There is also a button for "Apps" which has a bunch of domestic Japanese stuff, DAZN, and then also Apple TV+. When I go into...
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    2023 NPB & other Asia-Pac leagues

    I'll use the two posts below as the jumping off point for the 2023 NPB (and other regional leagues) thread. The 2022 thread is here. Probably 90% of last year's thread was about Murakami and Roki Sasaki. If anyone missed it at the time, here is a good piece on the two of them from last fall...
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    2023 Angels: A Sho-wan song?

    I've been watching a lot of Angels games the past few years, so will take my first crack at an Adopt-a-Team thread with them. 2023 may be a one-and-done for me in this forum with the Angels because if our man Shohei leaves for greener pastures, I assume they'll drop off of regular tv coverage...
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    2023 World Baseball Classic

    With a bunch of player and coaching commitments being made over the last couple weeks, and tickets for the opening Tokyo round going on sale on Monday, I think it's time to officially start looking forward to this thing. Mookie is the latest player to commit. I'm not sure there's space to get...
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    iPad Kindle app - switching Amazon country accounts on one device

    I use the Kindle app on my iPad for books. Normally I buy books on Amazon.com (US) and those deliver directly to my iPad Kindle library. Recently however I bought two books on Amazon.co.jp (Japan store), and without really considering that it could be an issue, bought them for delivery to my...
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    2021 MLB offseason - news and notes

    I didn't see a thread for FA's or international signings etc yet so thought I'd kick it off with one player from NPB who is likely to head to MLB for 2022, Hiroshima Carp OF Seiya Suzuki. Suzuki is a RHH corner OF with an incredibly consistent bat and decent pop. He led the CL in batting this...
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    Thank you Daisuke, and otsukare

    I moved to Tokyo on August 31st, 1998. It was...not the most remarkable thing that happened in Japan that summer. Less than two weeks earlier, on August 22nd, a young right hander from Yokohama High School named Daisuke Matsuzaka had thrown a no-hitter in the final of the Summer Koshien High...
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    Tiger Woods Car Accident - Ongoing News and Commentary

    sorry hadn't seen EE's post
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    Amazon Prime Video is doing a voice over and I can't shut it off

    I'm trying to watch Season 5 of The Expanse and there's a mechanical voice over telling me what's happening on the screen ("a door slides shut leaving Bobby with a bomb. She runs from the explosion." ) and I cannot figure out how to turn it off. I've looked in Amazon settings, and on generic...
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    NPB 2020

    Well, we've got live baseball here in Japan so, welcome to the Nippon Pro Baseball 2020 thread! After a couple months of delay the season started last Friday. A week in, players are trying (and sometimes failing) to limit contact, and coaches are all masked up. No fans yet but the hope is to...
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    Going to LAAA in 2018 - Shohei Ohtani

    We're way overdue for an Otani thread here. Some of you will remember that coming out of high school in 2012 as one of the nation's top prospects, Otani announced his intention to go straight to MLB. It seemed like a done deal, with both the Dodgers and the Sox showing a lot of interest. Then...
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    538 piece on Pedro

    Technically it's on The Best Pitchers of All Time, but basically it's about Pedro. And it's awesome. Apologies of course if this is already being discussed elsewhere or if this is the wrong place for it but. Had to post it. Enjoy.
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    I'd like to draw your attention to Masahiro Tanaka

    Tanaka, or Ma-kun as he is known, recently broke the NPB consecutive wins record of 20, and he has now won his last 22 decisions going back to last season.  So far this season he is 18-0 with a 1.15 ERA.   This Spring he was already rumored to be the next big Japanese name to make the move to...
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