2005 Japan League Series - Chiba Lotte Marines vs. Hanshin Tigers

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The Series starts this Saturday at Chiba Marine Stadium.

Yahoo! Japan Baseball:
http://baseball.yahoo.co.jp/npb/

Bobby Valentine's Chiba Lotte Marines are going to the Japan Series...
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getsp.pl5?sb20051018j1.htm

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 20 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

wow, Bobby Valentine!

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

On PTI they showed the video of the Marines players tossing Valentine in the air after their playoff win. I think Ozzie Guillen would really enjoy that too -- it might be worth rooting for the White Sox in the World Series just to see it happen!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Will this be on ESPN5?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

2:30 hours til game time:

http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/baseball/npb/05season/champ/live/051022.html

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 21 October 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Actually I was a day off, it's now the bottom of the 7th and the Marines just dropped a 5-spot on the Tigers to make it 10-1.

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Here's the AP recap:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20051023TDY24004.htm

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 22 October 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

the manager of his Arlington restaurant is asking him to send me a Chiba Lotte jersey. I assume they sell merchandise in Japan?

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Sunday, 23 October 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.yakyushop.net/proddetail.php?prod=JM1026&cat=7

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 23 October 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Game 2: Marines 10, Tigers 0
A blow-out so far, but things could change when the series moves to Osaka tomorrow.

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Baseball/News/2005/10/23/1275102-ap.html

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 23 October 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Deja Vu across the Pacific?

Valentine's Marines complete 4 game sweep of the Tigers:

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-japanseries&prov=ap&type=lgns

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

So Valentine claims that his Japan-league Chiba Lotte Marines can compete with the White Sox (who dominated the AL plus every round of the playoffs including the World Series sweep in 2005) in a 7-game series and Baseball Prospectus and Diamond Mind simulation software took him to task:

http://baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=4690

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 7 January 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Well at least they were more competitive than the Astros or Red Sox:

http://baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=4701

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

This doc about Bobby Valentine is on ESPN2 tomorrow night -- it's about one third filler, but worth a look. And it's about the 2007 season, not '05.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/tv/tv_review.asp?ID=63

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 12 May 2008 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

♪♫ When your friends have let you down go to Chinatown ♪♫

Sorry. I just needed somewhere to put that.

― felicity, Monday, 12 May 2008 20:21 (seventeen years ago)

Slant Magazine?

― Leee, Monday, 12 May 2008 21:16 (seventeen years ago)

plz, no offensive jokes (that hstencil has already made)

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 13:48 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

nice series of articles about the downfall of bobby v

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/sb20100117j1.html
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/sb20100124c1.html
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/sb20100131c1.html
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/sb20100207c1.html

i was literally cackling at shit like this:

It was a system that manifested itself in dusk-to-dawn days in lengthy spring training camps that were three to four times longer than in the U.S. There was a focus on so-called "guts" drills where players were made to field balls to the point of exhaustion and it sometimes entailed corporal punishment, where coaches would kick and slap recalcitrant players.

― :3 (cankles), Sunday, 14 March 2010 09:39 (fifteen years ago)

so the sac bunt is the holy grail of japanese baseball, and if you drop a grounder in practice some doughy old guy will slap the shit out of you

― :3 (cankles), Sunday, 14 March 2010 09:40 (fifteen years ago)

I SAID SAC BUNT 3/4 UP THE FIRST BASE LINE, NOT 1/2 WAY!!!!!

*kicks the shit out of the player*

― :3 (cankles), Sunday, 14 March 2010 09:41 (fifteen years ago)

hahaha

japan is so fucked up

― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 14 March 2010 09:41 (fifteen years ago)

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