Posted in Baseball, Japan, Sports, Spring Koshien, tagged 花巻東, Hanamaki Higashi, Koshien, Nanyo Kyougou, Rifu, Spring Koushien, Waseda, 利府, 南陽工, 早稲田実 on March 31, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Another short one because of work, although I had enough time to welcome spring to Cologne this morning with a short walk through the neighbourhood. Only a few minutes away is the Japanese Cultural Institute in front of which there are a lot of cherry blossom trees. (more…)
Posted in Baseball, Japan, Sports, Spring Koshien, tagged 甲子園, 習志野, 花巻東, Hanamaki Higashi, Koshien, Meiho, Narashino, Rifu, Spring Koushien, Waseda, 利府, 早稲田実, 明豊 on March 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The last day with three games on one day and we are getting closer and closer to the final rounds of the tournament. I am still completely astonished by yesterday’s stellar performance of PL Gakuen‘s Nakano. And because of that I forgot to inculde the link to the wonderful inning-by-inning reports of Goro Shigeno. He’s doing a great job keeping all of us up-to-date it’s almost as if you are listening to a radio broadcast. (more…)
Posted in Baseball, Japan, Sports, Spring Koshien, tagged Chuukyo Dai, 甲子園, Hotoku Gakuen, Imabari Nishi, Kakegawa Nishi, Koshien, Kurashiki Kougyou, Rifu, Spring Koushien, 倉敷工, 利府, 報徳学園, 掛川西, 中京大中京, 今治西 on March 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
When watching the repeat broadcast on the MBS site the most annoying thing to me at the moment ist the commercial for the new “Full Metal Alchemist” movie at the end of each half inning. I really loved the series when it came out a few years ago, but this is getting on my nerves quite a bit. Well, it’s just that, so it shouldn’t be that much of a problem. Good news for the semifinals and the final game as the MBS site announces that there will be live coverage for those three games for free. Unfortunately that won’t make a difference to me as those games will start in the middle of the night over here. (more…)
