1. Yakult uses the recession as an excuse to finally sell the team (to us) 2. Aikawa hits better than .220 3. Takada actually plays to win this season (as the new logo would lead us to believe) 4. Bobby Valentine replaces Takada for the 2010 campaign when #3 doesn’t pan out 5. Hara does [...]

While this site is yet quite young, it appears there’s more interest in our swift little birds of Tokyo than we realized (and a growing interest in Japanese baseball in general.)  Last night, Thursday, June 13th, sometime in the evening, almost exactly two weeks, down to the hour, after we started this blog, Tsubamegun: The [...]