Tricia Takanawa, Takanawa Times 06/14/2013: Kawaguchi, Japan – Hello fans, I am Tricia Takanawa, and tonight we will have a dinner date with two of the top rookies in this 2013 season. This evening we will have RF Kiyonori Kato and CF Raúl Gómez. Both currently play for the Seoul Crushers of the LRS. Playing […]
By Saruwatari Tsuyoshi, Kyoto Shimbun News June 7, 2013: Kyoto, Japan – In the LRS, we are lucky enough to have two of the league’s premier hitters still active and in contention for several of the LRS’ career batting marks. Edo LF Morihiro “Homu-Ran” Nakamura is 28. He’s never re-attained the lofty heights he scaled […]
By Michishige Kuniumi, Executive Editor of NiiGhostsSuck.com We’d like to thank the hundreds who submitted entries to our online contest, “Gouge the Ghosts With a Limerick”. We got some wonderful poems, many of them not printable on our website. Narrowing the contest down to a final list of five was not easy. Please now, vote from […]
May 30th, Late afternoon, New Frontier Park offices “Stay the course… in the end it will be clear, but it all depends… everything balanced on the head of a pin… stay the course, Coop; stay the course.” Cooper Scott stared at the phone number as the line went dead. “International call,” he muttered. “I don’t […]
Daily Log of a Fresh-faced College GraduateMay 24, 2013 We get a late start and decide to take an easy ride, so we’ve got the tunes flowing and Coors in the back to deal with the three hours on the road to Trenton. Don-o’s driving. Between sips of beer, I’m thinking about twins, about following […]
5/26/2013: Tokyo, Japan – Following Neo-Tokyo’s surprising upset win over the Edo Battousai to clinch their first ever Neo-Tokyo Cup, demanding owner Katsuhiro Otomo was strangely – nay, eerily – silent. “Rumours of Mr. Otomo’s demise are premature,” is all the PR department of the Akira would offer. After months of speculation, turns out there […]
May 26, 2013 In an effort to stimulate attendance at Portage Park this season, the Kalamazoo Badgers Marketing and Public Relations Department has announced the planned scheduling of several promotional dates for upcoming home stands. Each of these milestone-themed dates will feature special giveaways to the first 15,000 fans. However, each and every fan entering […]
by Andrew Parker, The New York Times (sports section) May 20, 2013 NEW YORK, NY – Silas Boone is having a bad season. The London shortstop is hitting just .206, an average only recently inflated above the Mendoza Line after a 4-for-5 game yesterday against New Orleans. With only four walks, his .227 on-base percentage […]
By Michishige Kuniumi, Executive Editor of NiiGhostsSuck.com May 20, 2013: Niihama City, Japan – The Ghosts front office, described by insiders as “panicked” over the squad’s woeful 2-10 start, today announced what may truly be the most desperate move in the history of the League of the Rising Sun: the team will feature young cheerleaders […]
Monday, May 13, 2013: Omaha, NE – In an early-morning press conference, General Manager Jason Warnke and new owner Grey Davidson III announced the acquisition of 31-year-old starting pitcher Israel Villarreal from the San Antonio Calzones of Laredo. The southpaw comes to Omaha along with Tempe’s 2013 sixth round amateur draft pick in exchange for […]