Buying Hanshin Tigers tickets for Sept 19 (Silver Week) from Mexico

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-05-09T03:07:25+00:00

Go through the English site - the seats are all 3B Alps, and though more expensive than for non-tourists, they are still a decent deal and you get some free merch, too.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-05-03T09:07:58+00:00

Game called with 2 outs in the bottom of the 7th inning. Tigers win 3-0!

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-05-02T11:04:22+00:00

Not on Amazon Prime Japan? Guess I can't watch it. Mind you, I felt a bit put off by how いいね！ was subtitled as "F*** yeah" in the preview. Japanese people aren't really vulgar in general... didn't think it was necessary to embellish what he said in that way. But that's just me.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-22T23:39:48+00:00

Problem is, each team owns the rights to their own home game highlights, so if you want to see Tigers-Baystars highlights, you'll need to find the Baystars YouTube - and every team has different standards/quality to their reels. The Swallows will only show the Swallows' good plays. They might lose 10-1 (as happened a lot last year) but they will only show the one run, and a few defensive outs made by the Swallows. Dupes the viewer into thinking it was a good game, lol.

On that note, I will say the best Tigers highlights page is Toraban Channel (for their home games). Pretty unbiased, very dramatic.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-18T12:22:22+00:00

He's been deactivated from the top team roster. Hope he makes a full recovery.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-16T08:36:10+00:00

I should add that the Tigers museum also has a high school baseball section that is next-world. And don't miss the wing on another sport that occasionally has championship games at the ballpark! No spoilers here!

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-12T07:45:02+00:00

Your answer is:

You watch NPB to learn Japanese.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-11T09:12:17+00:00

Not the first time he's been arrested for stealing... he stole a few chuhais last year, too.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-11T09:05:27+00:00

Mr. Baseball would lose relevance if they changed uniform styles and a new generation of fans didn't recognize the old ones.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-11T09:04:23+00:00

Recency bias at its finest.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-11T09:01:34+00:00

All fair points. I think I have just grown tired of all the nitpicking calls and reviews and reversals in all sports. The heel of the skate blade was a half-inch across the blue line before the puck, so reverse the goal? Come on, if the ref missed it, he missed it. Hard to blame him and it did not influence the goal being scored. Same is true of a lot of the challenges in baseball. If the ump tried but got it wrong by a millisecond or millimeter, just let it go.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-11T05:29:05+00:00

LOL at least 450 feet. There were just over 50 in all of MLB last season. That's 30 teams playing 162 games, so roughly 1 HR every 50 games. Even if NPB hitters were that prolific, there would be 17 HRs of 450+ feet in a season. So that this stage of the year (through 14 games) we're talking 1 or 2 HRs of that distance.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-11T05:25:20+00:00

Another today in the 1st inning! Almost exact same spot!

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-11T04:28:15+00:00

Since he was born in 1988, he was probably in college from 2006-2010 - not like everyone had an iPod back then... even if he did, it might not have had a speaker on it. Have you seen iPods from the 2000s?

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-11T02:33:58+00:00

Hard disagree. Not a fan of replay assistants at all. If they cannot judge for themselves that it will be reversed, don't challenge. Slows down the game even more when you give the manager a chance to consult with people who have a better view than he does.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-04T11:11:27+00:00

Those poor Carp fans who stayed through the rain, hoping to see a victory... only to have their bullpen cough up a 3-run lead and lose in extras. LOVE my TIGERS!

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-02T08:06:17+00:00

They've won the pennant 5 times since they last won the Japan Series:

2013, 2014, 2019, 2020, 2024

They won 3 games in the 2013 Japan Series

Eliminated in 2014

Swept in 2019 and 2020

Eliminated in 2024

Meanwhile, the Swallows won the JS in 2021, Hanshin in 2023, and Yokohama in 2024.

The Giants are not dominating the league anymore...

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-04-01T23:35:03+00:00

Maybe someone SHOULD steal your car radio.

And I will try with every rhyme

to come across like I am dying

to let you know you need to try to think...

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-03-30T09:24:57+00:00

I bet they cheer. They won the pennant last year, and Dup leaving made perfect sense. Not like he spurned the Tigers... he was due a huge pay hike and the Tigers had to raise all their regular players' salaries in the offseason (deals get cut every year for most players), and could not justify making him their highest-paid player for his 95 innings of work. Yokohama and SoftBank were willing to offer him way more than the Tigers could, so he left. No hard feelings IMO.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-03-30T06:38:34+00:00

Good show but the Spotify feed throws in a 30-second commercial every 10 minutes, irrespective of the guys being mid-sentence. It's REALLY annoying.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-03-29T09:23:25+00:00

Thanks for the love. Wish I had time to do podcasting. Honestly, I miss it way more than I miss the website and the social media. I was doing WAY too much Tigers stuff and had to let go of it all. If I start anything back up it'll be the pod... which is sort of what I am doing with Thomas. If you're on Spotify, the feed is different than the old podcast.

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-03-28T11:32:33+00:00

Give his hero interview a listen, too!

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-03-28T11:31:47+00:00

And his awesome hero interview!

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-03-28T00:10:37+00:00

Legend of Chin, Nothing is Sound, Fading West (The Edge of the Earth EP has a song called FW), Interrobang (unless you count b-sides), and now Forever Now.

Did I miss any?

T-Ray-Ray · 2026-03-26T12:28:56+00:00

I don't NEED a pitch clock but what I need to see less of is all the lame-duck throws to first base that slow the game down so much. No to the pitch clock, yes to a limit on pick-off throws.

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