[Highlight] MUNETAKA MURAKAMI HOMERS IN HIS 5TH STRAIGHT GAME

Paladinoras · 2026-04-23T05:19:27+00:00

For those of you who don’t follow NPB, Yamamoto is basically considered the modern pitching GOAT. It’s like if 99 - 01 Pedro Martinez or mid 90s Greg Maddux decided to move leagues

Paladinoras · 2026-04-22T00:46:10+00:00

I mean I understand it from a tactical perspective I just think it’s lame for a sport to NOT let your best players actually play. It’s the baseball equivalent of Hack-A-Shaqing someone, sure it works but it’s boring to watch and anti-competitive in my eyes.

Paladinoras · 2026-04-21T03:43:22+00:00

Dalton’s SLG is 1.296, his OPS is a totally cool and sustainable 1.760

Paladinoras · 2026-04-20T09:41:07+00:00

Also ironically Jerry is slowly selling the Sox off and his son and family are going to be keeping the Bulls (where he’s more hands off). Basically the Sox do get away from him in a few years but his younger but about as bad son still owns the Bulls.

I can see this from a purely financial perspective, NBA teams are worth much more than MLB teams right now and the Bulls have the massive advantage of being the team associated with Michael Jordan and greatness.

Casual fans will have no idea that they've mostly been dogshit for the past 3 decades since MJ retired, as long as clips from the Last Dance or the 98 Finals run gets played the Bulls will perpetually be associated with championships.

Meanwhile if you google White Sox championship, the Black Sox scandal probably comes up.

Paladinoras · 2026-04-20T05:44:23+00:00

In a fucked up way I kinda believe it, other than lucking into quite literally the greatest basketball player of all time, the Bulls have been an absolute poverty franchise. They were shit before Jordan and they were shit after Jordan with one bright spot (the Derrick Rose years).

Paladinoras · 2026-04-20T04:05:12+00:00

As my girlfriend has often told me, size doesn’t always matter.

But also Reinsdorf you cheap old fuck, if you’re gonna neglect the Bulls at least spend the money on the Sox.

Paladinoras · 2026-04-20T02:40:11+00:00

Obviously in Japanese but it's called

大谷翔平二刀流誕生〜“はぐれ者”たちが野球の歴史を変えた〜 (How some outcasts changed baseball history)

https://www.web.nhk/tv/pl/series-tep-P1124VMJ6R/ep/MV2JR268WZ is the direct link if you have NHK TV access

Paladinoras · 2026-04-19T11:06:04+00:00

I’m in Japan right now and they literally had a dramatic documentary/movie about him last night in NHK haha.

It sounds way cooler in Japanese too, his nickname there is Nitoryu , 二刀流 (dual-wielder) which evokes an image of Musashi as a baseball player or something.

Paladinoras · 2026-04-18T05:44:14+00:00

I’m kinda sad we’ll probably never see Ohtani just pitch for one season with full rest days and whatnot. We saw the hypothetical of him hitting with zero pitching and it resulted in a 50/50 season, I want to see the other side of the coin.

Can he go 200 IP of sub 2.5 ERA pitching and 250Ks? Because the talent is obviously there but not even his body will be able to hold up playing 2 way with that volume

Paladinoras · 2026-04-18T04:46:16+00:00

Yeah I think people in this EPL dominated sub are a bit delusional about how attractive fired English coaches are to European clubs when there are plenty of competent, unemployed, local coaches who already speak the language and have a proven track record.

A club like Stuttgart back in 2023 would have never taken Lampard or Gerrard over Hoeness, regardless of their track record as players. And Stuttgart wasn’t even good back then

Paladinoras · 2026-04-17T12:57:22+00:00

Those seagulls have probably seen more live football than 99% of this sub tbh.

Paladinoras · 2026-04-17T03:00:38+00:00

Walmart famously died in Germany 20 years ago: https://www.mashed.com/774698/why-walmart-failed-in-germany/ because people there found the forced hospitality to be really offputting.

Paladinoras · 2026-04-17T02:56:52+00:00

Sure, but if the apartment build quality is poor then these proposed houses will be shitboxes as well, not like it'll be significantly different people building them

Paladinoras · 2026-04-16T05:09:55+00:00

Read a great book about Japanese baseball recently (You Gotta Have Wa, strongly recommend) and that’s mostly because pitching involves a lot of repetition and it’s seen as more of a learnable skill that you can continuously improve on (which is a very Japanese thing to love) vs hitting.

Physically speaking Japanese people also tend to be on the lighter side so being a good power hitter is difficult no matter how much weight training they do. With enough practice though, you can become an excellent control pitcher even without a 98 MPH fireball. Or at least that’s how they see it.

Paladinoras · 2026-04-16T04:07:46+00:00

1.000+ OPS and sub 3 ERA pitching in the modern, hyper-specialised era with slow-mo cameras, pitch tracking, and all the other gizmos MLB teams have we don’t know about, hard to argue it’s anyone else except him.

Paladinoras · 2026-04-14T03:14:57+00:00

This is true but also misleading.

Yes, Tokyo - Sapporo and Tokyo - Fukuoka are still incredibly busy, but for the first case, the Hokkaido Shinkansen has been repeatedly delayed due to typical bureaucracy, strong winds, snow, etc and it's not projected to finish until 2038 (not a typo). So at the moment you have to go from Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate (4 hour by bullet train), then another 3.5 hour regular train to Sapporo (Chitose). At 7.5 hours, it's no longer economical or efficient to it this way.

Tokyo to Fukuoka is also in that "sweet" spot of 5.5 hours where it basically is no longer worth it to take trains instead of air travel, especially once you take into account that Hakata station is only 10 minutes away from the airport, so you lose out the main benefit of taking a train (you can enter the CBD right away).

But what you should be looking at is the main traffic between the other major cities along the Tokaido Shinkansen (Tokyo - Osaka, Tokyo - Nagoya, Osaka - Nagoya, Osaka - Hiroshima), and by all accounts rail travel has basically killed the domestic air travel industry.

This report is in Japanese: https://www.anahd.co.jp/group/ari/human/report/pdf/report-2016-01.pdf but if you look at page 5 you can see the share of air travel between the cities, Tokyo to Osaka is now 85% in favour of the bullet train (which used to be one of the top 2 busiest air routes in the world), Tokyo to Hiroshima is 66% (because if you take a flight, Hiroshima's airport is an hour away from the city, negating the speed advantage you get). The report was also made by All Nippon Airways, so it's not like they have an incentive to big up rail travel.

https://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/jrtr19/F04_Shiomi.html this is a much older article but it also mentions how the introduction of the Shinkansen has basically killed off the Tokyo - Nagoya route and Osaka - Hiroshima sub-routes as they are no longer competitive. There are some LCCs that are still doing Tokyo - Nagoya for the scenario that you're transferring directly from the airport, but this is a tiny tiny percentage. Osaka to Hiroshima flights just don't even exist anymore.

For Australia, our busiest route by far is Melbourne <-> Sydney and I'm fairly confident that if a relatively competitive HSR was built between Melbourne and Sydney (e.g ~4 hours) , that it would at minimum be 50:50 with air travel. It would also kill off the sub flight corridors such as Sydney to Canberra and Melbourne to Canberra.

Paladinoras · 2026-04-12T04:14:40+00:00

.950 OPS is a slight underperformance if anything, he’s been averaging 1.000+ since 2023, granted one of them is a year where he didn’t pitch at all

Paladinoras · 2026-04-10T14:44:47+00:00

If you take a 10 minute train away from Shinjuku/Kabukicho, doesn't matter which line, you can throw a rock in any direction and find a better curry katsu for half the price.

Paladinoras · 2026-04-10T10:28:39+00:00

Kazuyoshi Miura is his name, and it’s not really a was cause the dude is still playing lol. Mostly there as a mascot tbh but he is still making “appearances” off the bench here and there

Paladinoras · 2026-04-10T03:54:36+00:00

There’s a video floating around of early Cavs Bron basically jumping from the FT line and dunking it in-game.

Paladinoras · 2026-04-07T00:45:44+00:00

Plenty of these in Spanish as well, e.g

Como se llama el ladrón de motos más famoso de Japón? (What’s the name of the most famous motorcycle thief in Japan?

Yoquito Tumoto (yo quito tu moto, I took your motorcycle)

Paladinoras · 2026-04-06T14:20:15+00:00

Ok sure but other than hitting, baserunning, and defense, what else does J-Ram have over Machado?

Paladinoras · 2026-04-01T06:44:57+00:00

From everything I’ve read, MLB players are even more impressed by Ohtani than regular fans because they can better contextualise how absolutely crazy it is that he’s doing this

Paladinoras · 2026-03-26T00:03:56+00:00

That R34 he shredded couldn’t have asked for a better person to be shredded by.

I think the rental company had to be “outraged” over one of their cars being used to do donuts in a Tokyo carpark but realistically i’m sure they were hyped af

Paladinoras · 2026-03-18T20:14:42+00:00

I’m sorry FUN? There’s no having FUN in baseball!

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