The Ongoing Diary of Casey Neal Or, We Could Just Go Now (January 2020) I stood on my side of the door and tried to think about what a rational person would do. I was still in the same sweatpants and T-Shirt that I had slept in, and I hadn’t gotten a shower. I […]
The Ongoing Diary of Casey Neal You Call Me DK! (January 2020) My first story ran two days later. It was a carefully worded piece about rumors I had heard about how the border guard service in Russia had conveniently forgotten to process a request for information about three possible accomplices in the Mr. […]
The Ongoing Diary of Casey Neal It Was All the Losing (January 2020) The note read: “He wanted to win.” It was all I would ever get from Eijoro Sogo, Jr, the last owner of the Hyakujuu Shinkansen, and a man who now made it clear that he had no intention of actually talking […]
The Ongoing Diary of Casey Neal Ichihara (December 2019) Chief Inspector Ichihara blew a plume of blue smoke from his cigarette and waited for me to sit down across from him. We were in his office, which is a small, cramped place with very little floor space, most of which is taken up by three […]
The Ongoing Diary of Casey Neal Welcome to Japan (December, 2019) I grew up in a place called Duluth. It’s a place in the north of Minnesota built onto the western edge of Lake Superior. It’s everything you might expect from your typical hair-brained American city. It’s got your greasy burger joints, your high school […]
February 14. 2020, Palm Springs — “There’s not enough money in Japan to get me to play over there,” free agent catcher Samuel Kettley said at a press conference in Palm Springs where he has signed a 1-season deal for $3.2M to play as a Codger in 2020. “I know the leagues are merging and […]
This is the third installment of a multi-part series that documents a conversation between the Cliff Note staff and Ron Collins, the General Manager of the Lupin Cliff Hangers. Today we pick up with questions about the inner workings of the Lupin front office as they deal with new uncertainties in this emerging financial world […]
This is the second of a multi-part series that documents a conversation between the Cliff Notes staff and Ron Collins, General Manager of the Lupin Cliff Hangers. In the first part, Collins talked about the league’s recent disruptions, and made some bold predictions for the team. Today we pick up with questions that deal with […]
January 1, 2020: Toyama – As the calendar turned to 2020, the Cliff Notes staff had the opportunity to sit down and share a few moments with Ron Collins, General Manager of the Lupin baseball club. The team is coming off a club record 96-win performance that included a thrilling 4 games to 3 victory […]
December 12, 2019: Toyama — The Lupin Cliff Hanger organization, like much of the LRS, entered 2019 Winter Meetings with a sense of urgency that was fueled by the ambiguity of an uncertain future. A merger loomed on the horizon, and the rules of the road were changing. Trades, for example, are a whole new […]