TO add to the magazine discussion, Ichiro is on the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated. mark coale odessa steps magazine www.odessasteps.com...
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Nutts4GB@...
May 25, 2001 7:37 am
Does anyone have the email address for Japan Times writer David Picker? I looked all over the paper's site and cant find email addys for any of their sports...
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Michael Westbay
westbay@...
May 25, 2001 10:57 am
... Some of them, like Kuehnert-san, put them in their articles from time to time. But looking through a number of Picker-san39;s articles, I couldn't find one...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
May 25, 2001 3:11 pm
On the JapaneseBaseball, Michael-san asked for a list of those who went .300-30-30. You can find that at: ...
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Joe Corbino
yakyu@...
May 25, 2001 11:50 pm
Gary, Why not forward this on to the media in Seattle as well, and perhaps post it on the Blue Jays MLB message board? Joe ... ...
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Michael Westbay
westbay@...
May 26, 2001 2:04 am
... After a couple of exchanges, he explained to me that he got said information from talking with a "couple of Japanese who were following the Mariners" for a...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
May 26, 2001 7:18 am
Please see Seattle Post-Intelligencer article at: http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/baseball/24683_kopp25.shtml The main reason I'm posting this is that I'm...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
May 26, 2001 9:13 am
This is for you Nutts: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getsp.pl5?sp20010524dp.htm Also, in the Kansas City Star, I found the following article on how...
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robert kiyoshi shadlow
bpi@...
May 26, 2001 4:38 pm
Since seriously following Japan Pro Yakyu in 1988 I have read over and over again sloppy reporting and misinformation of Japan Pro Baseball. The most common...
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Joshua A. Reyer
jreyer@...
May 26, 2001 5:54 pm
... I know just what you mean. Since Ichiro and Shinjo landed the misinformation has been flying around fast and furious. Earlier this season, Shinjo made a...
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Joshua A. Reyer
jreyer@...
May 26, 2001 5:54 pm
... This is the kind of question I asked a BBS I regular post on. I was thinking of Nomo at the time, though I think it applies to Ichiro as well. The idea is...
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Robert Fitts
ochiai@...
May 26, 2001 11:09 pm
Hi Joshua raises an interesting question that I've thought about a lot. Although I think a case could be made for putting Oh in the US Hall of Fame because of...
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Joshua A. Reyer
jreyer@...
May 27, 2001 2:17 am
Just a quick question. I haven't seen a lot of Giants games, but from what I have seen (including highlights), it seems to be like Hideki Matsui's swing is...
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Joshua A. Reyer
jreyer@...
May 27, 2001 2:17 am
... I agree. With Oh, if you take away a third of his home-runs, he still has 579. 868 is just too many home runs to simply chalk up to low-level pitching,...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
May 27, 2001 4:37 am
Here's how strong Godzilla is: in one of those games against Yokohama last week, Matsui was sitting on a fastball. Instead, he got a flat slider. Fooled by the...
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Michael Westbay
westbay@...
May 27, 2001 7:06 am
... Today's Nikkan Sports' Headline is declaring it the longest hit ball in the world. OK, so they're probably wrong, but... The official length is being...
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Michael Westbay
westbay@...
May 27, 2001 9:47 am
... That should read, "At Seibu Dome, ..." Not Tokyo Dome. -- Michael Westbay Work: Beacon-IT http://www.beacon-it.co.jp/ Home:...
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Robert Fitts
ochiai@...
May 27, 2001 12:54 pm
Hi Josh In response to your question, Japanese Baseball Superstars will be available on my website. rob www.RobsJapaneseCards.com ... From: "Joshua A. Reyer"...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
May 27, 2001 1:57 pm
Thanks for that Michael-san! Stuff like that always fascinates me (okay, so I'm kinda geeky about that sort of thing, I'll fess up). :-) By the way, I don't...
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Michael Westbay
westbay@...
May 27, 2001 3:37 pm
... Numbers like that fascinate me as well. The articles I love writing the most are filled with tables of stats. My job is connecting databases with the ...
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Wesley Johnson
gaijinda@...
May 28, 2001 3:12 am
While people were talking on the subject of longest home runs, I do remember while I was at a game in the old Nishinomiya Stadium in 1988, Boomer Wells ...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
May 29, 2001 5:07 pm
That's the question raised in an otherwise positive Seattle Times article, which is at: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/134300345_mlog29.html ...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
May 30, 2001 11:03 pm
See USA Today story at: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/bbw/2001-05-30/2001-05-30-specialseattle.htm Gary http://home.earthlink.net/~aladdinsane/index.html ...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
Jun 1, 2001 12:42 am
A Couple of L.A. Times articles you might want to look at: Colborn and Ichiro: http://www.latimes.com/sports/times/20010531/t000045426.html Hasegawa has...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
Jun 1, 2001 7:35 am
See Seattle Post-Intelligencer article at: http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/baseball/25576_ichiro01.shtml Btw, good on that paper's baseball section for having a...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
Jun 3, 2001 5:28 pm
With the Seattle Mariners getting off to one of the greatest starts in major league history, ranking with that of the 1928 Yankees, I was wondering if anyone...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
Jun 6, 2001 7:36 am
See article at: http://www.time.com/time/asia/arts/magazine/0,9754,129012,00.html Note, also, that there are links in the story to related articles. Gary ...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
Jun 7, 2001 11:38 pm
Hi kids! Boy, the Mariners are going far and near in the quest to harvest the best baseball talent. See the article at this link and then read the rest of my ...
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aladdinsane
aladdinsane@...
Jun 12, 2001 1:08 pm
This is freaking ridiculous! When is Tsutsumi going to fire Higashio? Seibu has a losing record and he's going to destroy the club's best pitcher. Matsuzaka ha...
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Joshua A. Reyer
jreyer@...
Jun 12, 2001 1:52 pm
... Now comes the sad question. Did Seibu win? Josh...