So that Randy Wells fellow the Cubs have? I didn't know he was a former catcher.

It kind of explains a lot about him - he's got a bit of that aura going. There's still some catcher in there.

Actually, on that note, switching from one half of the battery to the other is a pretty big deal. It's tough mentally, especially if you're starting as a ( Read more... )

Pitching in warmer weather = happy sinkerballer.

BMU's founders are going down for Spring Training and they managed to find a way for the team to tag along - there's a little college tourney going on down there, and we'll get a chance to show people how inept we are but how good Kazu-san makes us look by using us right. (Rumor has it that ( Read more... )

So, uhm, the college season officially starts tomorrow. Which means I have to actually go to bed early tonight because Kazu-san wants to be personally out there for game one to get a feel for the people we're playing against and he needs me to throw a ball to him some 100-odd times tomorrow while some kid with a stick stands in between us and tries ( Read more... )

So Eijun isn't my son-in-law yet (although it is looking like he will be more and more each day), but we finally located the Daiei scanlations that Cootie was talking about some time ago. They are here. In the chapters they have up, you can meet Eijun's crazy roommates Kuramochi Youichi and Tooru Misuko (the former is the real nutjob and would ( Read more... )

The weather was actually decent today! We were able to use
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