By Jim Bouton, Naha Shisa correspondent

5/6/2013: Naha, Japan – I have very busy been tracking down another potentially huge story, but when one is corresponding for a team that just posted a phenomenal spring record… well, that like ignoring a chimp with a revved-up chainsaw.  Not that I have any personal experience with that.

I’ll make this brief and to the point.  Okay, great, a young team shows up big in spring training, and they are giddy as schoolgirls on prom night.  But talk to those same girls the next morning… well, you catch my drift.

I don’t want to rain on anybody’s parade, but let’s look at this realistically.  Does anybody seriously expect the Naha Shisa to score six runs a game, have anything resembling an .855 team OPS or a team ERA of 2.45 at the end of the regular season?!  I didn’t think so.

Here’s another balloon popper.  In the OSA list of the top 40 LRS players (20 batters and 20 pitchers), Kuwana and Edo each have seven players listed.  The Naha Shisa have exactly one – Alberto Ramón somehow made the pitcher’s list at number twenty.  Can any of you media morons count that high?  Well, that number is represented by this finger.  Even the owner – whatever the hell he is – only expects the team to finish .500.  If this team can somehow cobble together 80 wins, that will be a great season.

Already, some troubling injury problems are starting to manifest – some of them recurring.  You know what that means?  That’s right; the party is over.  The 20-4 record will no longer exist in any serious record book after today, and the dull, aching throb of reality will once again settle upon the city of Naha.  This team simply isn’t ready for the playoffs.

So kindly leave me the frak alone.  I have more important things to do.