As you might have guessed, articles covering the postseason were some of the most popular on the site.
Hello 2012, and Happy New Year to everyone out there in Tsubamegun land!
We’d like to welcome you to the new year, and a spring training camp in Okinawa that’s only a month away, by looking back briefly on the most popular posts of last season.
They’re listed here according to page views, and it’s an amusing view into what interested the record number of readers that accessed this site last year.
5. Tokyo vs Yomiuri Game 3 – Climax Series 1st Stage
This was Kozo’s personalized version of the emotional ups and downs of that historic game between the birds and their much better funded crosstown rivals.
4. Tokyo vs Chunichi Game 5 – Climax Series 2nd Stage
Garrett wrote the season-ending game report after the team’s loss to eventual Japan Series Runner-up, Chunichi. The comments at the end of this post were very much appreciated by all of us here at the site.
3. Online Yakyu Writer Insights: 2011 Tokyo Swallows
For this article, I interviewed Yakyu Baka’s Gen Sueyoshi, NPB Tracker’s Patrick Newman, and Jason Coskrey from the Japan Times to see what they thought about Tokyo’s chances in 2011. It’s interesting to re-read this article nearly a year later and see how things actually panned out. I, for one, was completely off on Aoki having a career-best year. Seems the new baseball was the monkey wrench on that one.
2. 2011 Japan Series – Chunichi vs Fukuoka
This is the youngest of the entrants on this short list of popular posts, but it makes sense that it made the cut because it’s essentially seven game reports wrapped into one. Game seven, in which I included play-by-play coverage of how the Hawks finally defeated the Dragons, helped attract a lot of real-time attention to that post.
1. Wishful Thinking (2011 version)
Ah, yes. The annual ritual of putting our foolish hopes and dreams in writing. It’s almost like a belated Christmas Wish List. I swung and missed on most of mine last year. How did you end up doing?
Thanks to everyone who visited Tsubamegun last season! Keep watching this space for an upcoming Wishful Thinking post that we’ll appreciate your feedback on.
Enjoy the rest of the New Year’s holiday!
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