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Toreba no Toraba: Heidi Games All Year Long

Toreba no Toraba: Heidi Games All Year Long

As seen in Daily Sports Online (Japanese) / トレバーの虎場から OK, I’ve about had it. Earlier this month, I was hosting the monthly H-TEN viewing party on Zoom. I and three others sat down in front of our respective computers while watching the Tigers-Hawks game on our own TV screens. Most of them were on Toratele,…

Toreba no Toraba: The Olympics, NBC, Koshien and Me

Toreba no Toraba: The Olympics, NBC, Koshien and Me

As seen on Daily Sports Online (Japanese) / トレバーの虎場から The decision to go through with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been a controversial one, and has been as full of questionable political moves as everything else during this pandemic. To be completely honest with you, I have been against Tokyo 2020 from the start, and…

Toreba no Toraba: Sato’s Shiny Star & (Finnish) Flashbacks

Toreba no Toraba: Sato’s Shiny Star & (Finnish) Flashbacks

As seen in Daily Sports / デイリースポーツのコラム(トレバーの虎場)から Teruaki Sato. The young man who plays like he’s already in his prime. Does interviews like he’s been there, done that a thousand times before. Brings excitement to the stands (empty though they may be) and the nation like no one has in ages, if ever. Gives dreams…

Toreba no Toraba: Koshien the Movie

Toreba no Toraba: Koshien the Movie

As seen in Daily Sports Online (Japanese) / トレバーの虎場(デイリースポーツ)から Ah, Koshien… how we missed you last year. It’s so great to have high school boys back at the best ballpark in Japan, leaving everything on the field for a chance at glory. It truly is a beautiful tournament and set-up, and damn you, Covid-19, for…

Toreba no Toraba: Writer’s Block?

Toreba no Toraba: Writer’s Block?

As seen in Daily Sports Online (Japanese) / トレバーの虎場(デイリースポーツ)から I’ll admit it. I have a ton of ambition. But along with that, I also have to admit one more thing. I have a ton of hesitancy to chase after that ambition. You see, a lot of times, the things we want the most are also…

Toreba no Toraba – Humbling Heroes with Japanese Requests

Toreba no Toraba – Humbling Heroes with Japanese Requests

Daily Sports Column (Japanese) here / トレバーの虎場(デイリースポーツ)から I can still remember July 1998 like it was yesterday. I wouldn’t call myself traumatized by what happened. Just shell-shocked. I had just come to Okinawa, Japan, and the town Board of Education threw me a welcome party. There I was, sitting at a table with a bunch…

Toreba no Toraba – Lessons from a Sri Lankan Umpire

Toreba no Toraba – Lessons from a Sri Lankan Umpire

Based on my Japanese column for Daily Sports / トレバーの虎場(デイリースポーツ)はこちら Life in 2020 has shown us that things will not always go as planned. The spread of COVID-19 has changed everyone’s lives in some way, shape, or form. Baseball is no exception. The Olympics have been postponed, the NPB season has been shortened, and for…

Toreba no Toraba – Finding New Ways to Talk Tigers

Toreba no Toraba – Finding New Ways to Talk Tigers

Source: デイリースポーツ トレバーの虎場 Go away, COVID-19! You’ve kept baseball away from us long enough, already! It’s bad enough that you scared us with Shintaro Fujinami and friends, plus ex-coach Atsushi Kataoka. But to keep us baseball fans in limbo this long… well, that’s just cruel. (Not to mention millions of infections worldwide.) As a Hanshin…

Toreba no Toraba – On TV Debuts and Family…

Toreba no Toraba – On TV Debuts and Family…

Daily Sports Column トレバーの虎場 version here (日本語) The Japanese version of this article is quite different, so if you can read both languages, give it a read! Some of you already know this, but I was able to land a spot on a TV show that aired last week. It was called Hello! Tsurube x…