Korea and Japan to meet for the 6,993rd time in 2009 WBC

Japan beats the USA 9-4 to finalize the match-up that everyone around the world has already seen 6992 times already in the month of March.

Japan and Korea are currently tied at 3496 - 3496 in the 2009 tournament.







By the way, for those watching in Japan, have they been using Separate Ways as the highlight song all the time? Because they did today and that's just awesome.

The Gift V and Epilogue

*Ring*

Hello?

Double T!

Oh. Hey Katsumi.

Man, it's been a while! I knew you changed your phone number and I thought you gave me your new one and I guess it must have fallen out of my pocket or something.

Yeah. Um..you must have lost it.

Yeah! So it's a good thing I took a look at your phone while you were doing the First Stage on Monday!

You what?

Yeah! Anyway, wasn't it great how ******* was able to ****** the ******?

Yeah, that was pretty cool.

And you! You were able to ****** the ******!

Thanks.

But I have to ask, did you run out of spray?

What?

Like, I sent you a box in the winter! But you had to borrow some on Monday. So I thought you must have run out. So I sent you two more boxes when I got home!

Really? Umm..thanks.

You know, I bet you totally could use this stuff while you're working.

While I'm working? Um..Katsumi, I'm a fireman. I don't think a spray can is something I can use when I'm fighting fires.

Naw! I'm sure you can! I've got a fire going right here. Let me just spray so...

KATSUMI! NO!

*FWOOSH!!!!*

Katsumi!!!

...

Katsumi?!?! Are you OK?

Mr. Takeda?

Yes?


My daddy has to call you back. He set the house on fire...again.

Um..OK.








*Ring*

Hi! I'm not here right now! Those hot dogs won't sell themselves you know! Leave a message!

*Beep*

Oh, hey, Katsumi, this is Shinji. Shinji Kobayashi. I wanted to say thank you for the double pack of SASUKE Spray you sent me the other day. And also sorry that your house burned down...again. Anyway, I was just wondering..you know the Monster 9 guys right? You're pretty tight with them so I thought maybe for this next show I was wondering if you could do me a favor and ask them to not cu..

*Beep*







You didn't think I forgot about Takeda, did you?

March Madness 2009

(Picture shamelessly stolen from google image search)

Yikes! Been a while! SASUKE stuff and more coming up, I promise. And maybe, just maybe, I'll finally write something for the J Blog Matsuri. Maybe.

Anyway, since it's coming up um...later tonight now is a good time as any to remind those in Japan who have a passion for college hoops that there's no better friend for you on the internet at this time than March Madness On Demand by CBSSports.

You get all the games for free and from what I experienced last year, I didn't have to wait very long to get into games (other than trying to get into a game before it aired). Even switching between games was relatively painless.

The only catch is that if you're in Japan the games are at fairly inconvenient times. The first games tip-off at around 12:30 PM US EST which makes it oh..1:30 in the morning here in Japan. Then again, I guess it depends on your schedule. Tomorrow (the 20th) is a holiday so you can stay up watching games until the sun comes up. Well, I guess if you had a life it would get in the way of all that.

March Madness!