This post is about baseball.

[dr4b]

I'm too stressed out right now to make a real post.

Actually, I'm too stressed out to talk about baseball, too. All I'm going to say is, like, dude, A-Rod. Yankees. WTF? Hello?

This was a very touching article/interview with Jamie Moyer talking about spring training.

And also about the Mariners starting rotation.

And yay! Jamie Moyer will probly be the Opening Day pitcher.

And what does Freddy Garcia have to say about it?

In other cool news, something Japanese-baseball-related with the Mets that has nothing to do with Kazuo Matsui -- they just hired Leon Lee to be a minor-league manager and scout! Whee! That's really cool.

And speaking of A-Rod, this was a pretty amusing story: A-Rod dents reporter's car

And just for damienroc, the trivia on my Mariners desk calendar today:
"On July 21, 1993, the Mariners as a team collected only five hits against the Yankees - and Jay Buhner hit all five of them. Seattle won the game, 10-3."

And on another note... I wonder if the2belo is still stalking my journal. I could use help figuring out how to order tickets to baseball games in Japan.

Comments

[the2belo.livejournal.com]

1) I really wish people wouldn't use the word "stalk". But oh well, I won't bitch. It's just a journal, yes? Besides, I'm the type who reads the friends pages of friends.

2) You can order tickets to ballgames through either the official website of the team you want to see, the site of the stadium you want to go to, or going through Ticketopia, which is the Japanese equivalent of TicketMaster.　For example, here is a list of Fighters games for 2004.

3) Speaking of Jamie Moyer, who is a former Oriole, the Birds are poised to kick a little ass for once this season. Now, if only Yankee Stadium would, like, explode or something.

[damienroc.livejournal.com]

Regarding #3... I've got my AL East predictions up in my latest post.

[the2belo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Orioles pitching = questionable, yes. I have a sneaking suspicion I'm going to have to sit there in front of the TV and stare longingly at Mike Mussina on channel 654, while the O's barely carry a lead into the 6th on channel 656. Bleah.

[nykkel.livejournal.com]

Actually, that 'here' link includes a session ID, which has expired. So you get an error message saying that your session has expired (in Japanese). Seemed fairly straightforward to go to the top level page and click on the baseball link, though. Don't know what their policy is on taking orders from people who are in another country.

[the2belo.livejournal.com]

Oop. Didn't know it had session variables in it.

Try ePlus.co.jp. This is a net-based order site. You need to make an account here to make orders, but they accept credit cards in most cases, and there's nothing in there that suggests they wouldn't be able to mail tickets overseas (although I haven't really read the whole thing; I buy my tickets at the department store, actually).

[dr4b]

Heh, it was late at night and I was kinda freaked out about some stuff.
I've re-added you to my friends page (because it occurs to me that maybe it'd be informative to let you know what's going on, if you care). But actually, is there some way I can get in touch with you outside LJ? I promise all will be made clear shortly.

[the2belo.livejournal.com]

In re: the above link: Oh dear. I don't know what's happened here, but I can only imagine what it must be like. Incredibly sorry to hear it.

And as for getting in touch with me outside of LJ, all my IM info is here, if you want to do it that way. Otherwise, mail me at the2belo[at]msd[dot]biglobe[dot]ne[dot]jp (munged, sorry).