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  1. Oh, and the shiny material used shows up sweat. A lot. So during the hot summer, being the sweaty sweaty man I am, it looks like someone pissed all over my underarms.
  2. Got the home shirt a couple of weeks ago. I was an L with the old Nike kits, but a M fits about the same with the new one. Can't stand the cut of the new shirt though. Something about it is just wrong. Looks, I don't know, very square/blocky and it hangs all wrong. The old Nike kits, however poor aesthetics-wise their designs became, always fitted really well.
  3. Superb thread, and hopefully having relived those games through these comments, I can now erase all memory of them and never again dwell on the total abomination that was the 2011-12 season.
  4. The above is taken from F365's Winners and Losers article for this week, http://tinyurl.com/6pnqt94 Obviously I don't need to tell you which heading Mr.Lerner's name fell under.....
  5. Very scary stuff. Was at work in western Tokyo and we all ran out into the car park. The noise of shaking buildings was pretty loud and parked cars were rolling back and forward. Feel for the people of Miyagi though. That tsunami footage was some end-of-days type stuff.
  6. I've got no issues with the large AVFC on the back. Quite like it actually. And the oversized lions rules.
  7. I really like that top. Nice, simple and classy IMO.
  8. Yep, they couldn't have gone any better.
  9. Sure, we lacked application after the red, but come on people. We'd have taken a point before tonight (I was convinced we'd get spanked) and results elsewhere couldn't have been better. We've come a long way in the fact that that people are so gutted tonight I suppose, but let's not lose perspective here folks.
  10. yakulto

    Baseball

    The main argument against November that I heard were that most players would have been wound-down for a month or so after the regular season while the postseason took place. November would make sense to me though.
  11. yakulto

    Baseball

    Yes, seperating the teams from one pool to the next is the most obvious way to avoid endless rematches, and hopefully something they'll introduce in 2013, along with the elimination of the seeding games. The double elimination will be back I'd imagine, which I don't mind as I thought it was a good system. It's a shame that the US didn't take it as seriously as the other teams. One of my friends was in the US for while it was going on and said it barely registered on the radar of most US sports fans, which is a shame. Competative international competitions are such a unique experience that it's a shame the US fan knows little, if anything of their joys. Most seem content to continue to look at their leagues as the pinacle of their respective sports worldwide, and in many ways they are. But international competitions offer something more & different. B-dub - your analogy of the England situation is a good one, and there's no doubt the US was lacking key players (though they had some pretty good ones on the 2009 roster) and that the extent to which the team could be "managed" was limited. But to look at it from a different angle I think of it as a Premier League vs England national team kind of thing. The Premier League is probably the best league in the world, it's teams dominating the Champions League and teams from Europe. But when it comes to international competitions, the England team are on the whole mediocre to good. The MLB is the best baseball league in the world, but take away the foreign talent (Dominicans, Venezuelans, Puerto Ricans etc, etc) that helps populate the league (I believe it's around 30%) and the US team just just doesn't match up to the standard of the MLB as a whole. The quality of the MLB magnifies the image of US baseball as all-powerful, in the way that the Premier League does to the England team. Knowing a fair bit about Japanese baseball, their roster was stacked with talent. In the first game at Tokyo Dome when we saw the starting lineup on the scoreboard, it was of true "dream team" standards. It would have been interesting to see how they would have done against a US team free from the restrictions you mentioned, but I'm pretty sure they'd have stacked up pretty well.
  12. yakulto

    Baseball

    Japan beat Korea 5-3 in a superb final. Japan had a 3-1 lead before the Koreans later pulled it back to 3-2, and then amazingly 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth with two outs. They then had a chance to win it there and then (despite Japan outhitting them by some margin) but couldn't pull it off. It allowed Japan to add another two runs in the top of the 10th via the magical bat of Ichiro, and they managed to close out the game in the bottom of the 10th. One of the best games I've ever seen I would say. Overall the WBC was full of some great games and stories, but as you say Levi, they could do with dropping those pointless "seeding matches" at the end of every round, as that would help reduce the amout of replicated matchups. Japan pretty much ground to a halt during the game, with some enormous TV viewing figures, and also good to see some 55,000 turning out in person at Dodger Stadium too.
  13. yakulto

    Baseball

    Australia took a 4-2 lead in the 6th but Cuba came back late to edge it 5-4. Looked like a hell of an exciting game.
  14. yakulto

    Baseball

    For the Dutch to do it once was remarkable, but to do it again is simply stunning. It's just a shame that all these games are unwatchable in Tokyo due to the time difference and work, dammit!
  15. yakulto

    Baseball

    IIRC, aren't the Japanese domestic leagues noticeably more, er, sedate, than the North American leagues, with much more of a sit-and-watch-quietly until it's time to cheer for a bit aspect? There's an element of that, but I wouldn't call them sedate by any means. When a player comes up to bat, fans stand up and sing the players song/chant continuously until he's either out or gets a hit. When they're not chanting then folks chat, eat and get pissed much like North American crowds.
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