Opening Day: Central League Live

Carp vs Giants

Swallows vs. Tigers

Carp/Giants

Carp @ Giants. You're not gonna find a better pitching matchup than this one. They are the best two starters in the Central League. Look for Kuroda to have a really strong season.

Giants 2 - Carp 1. The Giants have a better lineup and the Carp will let Kuroda down in this one.

Yakult vs. Hanshin, Go Swallows! I'd like to wish all the fans good luck with your teams this season.

This is sort of off topic for this thread, but I thought it would be OK, as this is a question directed towards Alan Newman.

From your post, it seems quite obvious that you're cheering for the Swallows. You played for the Hiroshima Carp as well, although not as much. I was just wondering if there's any other factor for you cheering for the Swallows, rather than the Carp, other than the reason that you spent more time with them.

Any good memories or stories that you could possibly share to explain why you've chose to remain as a SWALLOWS fan?

Being a Swallows fan, I'm just curious to possibly hear something about your experience with them.

I really appreciated the way that the Swallows handled everything. They also treated me with great respect. I've played for 9 different organizations. I would say that Yakult is in the top two as far as being a classy team. I really wish I was still there, maybe next year I can come back. I have many good memories there and miss my teammates, the Nippon Series (2001) is a great memory. And messing around with Fujii and Igarashi, they are really great people.

Tigers/Swallows.

Igawa vs. Ishikawa
Ramirez vs. Kanemoto

I am READY! GO TIGERS!

Bad news for Yakult and Hanshin fans. The Cable Guide, which came out two weeks ago for April, had the Hanshin opener on Sky A, a channel I get. Today's Nikkan Sports has it on Gaora, a channel I don't get, with the Rakuten home opener on Sky A. So I regret that this game is no longer available.

I look forward to the Ogata (SS Carp).

Argh. I didn't provide the most important information, the link to the live page (until the nineth inning when a friend told me he couldn't find it). Well, other than that, I think that this broadcast went a lot better than others thanks to the feedback I'd gotten.

The Game of the Week this week was the Carp vs. Giants at Tokyo Dome, and it was a great game. You can listen to it in its entirety here [18MB mp3 file]. Please feel free to copy, share, and/or rebroadcast this, in whole or in part, over the Internet or airwaves, provided you make clear that the broadcast came from JapaneseBaseball.com. Copyright should be about granting the right to copy, not restricting it. So share and enjoy.

Westbay-san,

I know that you do the game of the week. I was just wondering if you could put a link to the site that you do it on.

Yea, I really blew it this week, putting the link in late.

You can now get links to the live site and the archives from here (under Media Guide). I'll also be sure to include a link in each announcement here under News from now on. My bad.