July 14, 2019 – Toyama: Fifty-nine games are in the record books, and the Lupin Cliff Hangers have won 32 of them. This means they lead the Bright Blade Group. Yes, the lead is only two games over Naha, and five over Edo. Yes, there exist eighty-five games left to play. But fans of the […]
As the season crosses the one-third pole, it’s time Lupin Cliff Hanger fans around the world to take a look under the hood and see what’s real and what’s not. The bottom line reads pretty well, the team stands at 32-21, a game up on Naha Shisa and two over the dastardly Edo Battousai. They’ve […]
June 23, 2019, Toyama — With the June draft now behind us, we can get a glimpse into the thoughts of the new GM regime by taking a look at where the team focused. Clearly, that focus has been on the mound. The team selected eleven players, eight of them (including the first four selections) […]
Toyama, June 2, 1019 — Dan Stewart can forgive Cliff Hanger fans for what was perhaps a bit of a rude welcome. “If I were in their shoes, I would probably have booed me, too,” said the 6’2″, 205 pound third baseman from across the blue expanse in San Jose, California. “I’m twenty-seven, and from […]
May 12, 2019, Toyama — A famous American ballplayer once said that pitching is 90% of baseball. If this is true, Cliff Hanger fans across the nation have to be slavering after this opening week in the LRS. While Shinobu Takeuchi gave up four runs in five innings on opening day, the bullpen came in and […]
It was a shock to Shinobu Takeuchi when the pain came. He was a twenty-three years old star whose face appeared on billboards and phone screens and bottles of shampoo. He had won 12 games for the second year in a row, and there was still five weeks left in the season. He was a golden man, […]
Diary of a Fresh-faced College GraduateJune 23, 2013 It’s nearly eight in the evening when I pile on the plane with a bunch of New Orleans ballplayers and their entourages, which contain wives, girlfriends, agents and other hanger-ons who I really just don’t want to know that much else about. The Trendsetters are just two […]
Daily Log of a Fresh-faced College GraduateJune 13, 2013 The Thoroughbreds are home for a quick four-game series with Florida before they head to New Orleans. I could pretend I’m here to do research, to follow Kentucky down to the Bayou country and catch up to the Trendsetters before they take me to London. That’s […]
Daily Log of a Fresh-faced College Graduate June 5, 2013 The hotel is empty when I wake up this morning. No Don-o. No Don-o’s duffel full of moldy clothes. I look out the window to scan the parking lot and I see the place we had parked Annie is empty. “Son of a …” I […]
Daily Log of a Fresh-faced College GraduateJune 3, 2013 We watch the news reports the next morning as we eat our buffet breakfast. Percy Nor was picked up when one of his private jets tried to fly out of the country and into Cuba. Jared Spade has been taken to a psychiatric ward for a […]