Amusing little tidbit on Simon Currie’s site, about two Chunichi Dragons cheering squads, known as Hakuryukai (White Dragons Club) and Ryushinkai (Dragon Spirit Club), that have been banned from all NPB stadiums. Apparently the offending groups have a history of hording outfield seats, being rude, excessive public intoxication, and best of all…ties to organized crime […]

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I’m going to let a cat partially out of bag here. I was recently hired to do a part time scouting job similar to the one Jackson does for the Twins. I won’t post about my job directly, but I’m guessing my overall ability to analyse baseball is about to take a big jump. One thing I’m […]

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