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Episode 147: Projecting the 2022 Season Stats from 2022-04-19T08:40:56
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss team news, the most recent 11-game stretch (Games 10-20), and what has gotten into manager Akihiro Yano and his players! Then, they get out their calculators and proj...
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Episode 146: WTH? We’re Terrible, Hanshin! from 2022-04-05T05:53:34
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay just what has happened to the Hanshin Tigers in 2022 that has resulted in an unprecedented 0-9 start to the season. Who’s to blame? How can they turn the ship around? Is ther...
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Episode 145: The Kyle Keller Interview from 2022-03-30T22:41:58
About a week before the regular season began, we sat down with new pitcher Kyle Keller. At this point, he had appeared in just one preseason game (against the Softbank Hawks in Fukuoka) and was bri...
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Episode 144: 6th Annual H-TEN CL Standings Prediction Show! from 2022-03-24T00:12:52
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss team news, the last nine exhibition games, and then turn the floor over to nine contributors who fearlessly predict the final standings in the Central League for the ...
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Episode 143: Other CL Teams–A Primer from 2022-03-10T02:50:10
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss team news, the first six exhibition games, and what has gotten into manager Akihiro Yano and his players! Then, they analyze the other five Central League teams, whic...
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Episode 142–Piecing Together the Positional Puzzle from 2022-02-23T14:02:33
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay are back to talk about the four most recent practice games, plus who is grappling for playing time at which positions and what their odds are. Who will surprise us with a bre...
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Episode 141–The Mel Rojas Jr Interview from 2022-02-16T04:22:39
Spring training is more than half done! We have great expectations for second-year switch-hitting outfielder Mel Rojas Jr and so should you! We sat down with him (on Zoom) for an interview last wee...
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Episode 140–The Year of the Tigers Will be Different! from 2022-02-10T00:29:38
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay are back to talk about the first two scrimmages/friendly games of the year, manager Akihiro Yano’s decision to step down as manager at season’s end, and finally, how the 2022...
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Episode 139b–The Joe Gunkel Interview from 2022-02-01T23:37:16
Spring training has begun! We have great expectations for third-year American righty Joe Gunkel and so should you! We sat down with him (on Zoom) for an interview last week… here is the audio from ...
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Episode 139a–Bringing You Up to Speed from 2022-01-27T23:07:27
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay are back in 2022! Happy New Year to you! On this show, we talk about the offseason… who’s left the club? Who’s come on board in the Year of the Tiger? What do the spring trai...
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Episode 138: Climax Series First Stage Preview! from 2021-11-04T21:54:13
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss the latest team news and recap the last 4 games of regular season Tigers baseball. They then name hitters and pitchers for the month of October, and end things by tal...
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Episode 137: How To Pull Off a Miracle… from 2021-10-22T22:29:36
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss the latest team news and recap the past 11 games of Tigers baseball. They then talk about the unlikely but still possible conditions that would allow the Tigers to wi...
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Episode 136: Can We Win the Pennant Still? from 2021-10-08T21:59:31
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss the latest team news and recap the past 14 games of Tigers baseball. After complimenting manager Akihiro Yano for his postgame comments, they discuss what needs to ha...
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Episode 135: Predicting Upcoming Goodbyes from 2021-09-22T03:57:18
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss the latest team news and recap the past 11 games of Tigers baseball. After complaining about manager Akihiro Yano’s strategy decision against the Giants, they discuss...
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Episode 134: What to Do with Teru? from 2021-09-07T22:10:12
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss the latest team news and recap the past 14 games of Tigers baseball. Then they choose players of the month for July/August, and try to get to the bottom of what has h...
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Episode 133: Call Up the Good Farmers! from 2021-08-24T23:00:23
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss the latest team news and recap the past 9 games of Tigers baseball. Then they discuss what roster and strategic moves they would like to see the team make as the penn...
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Episode 132 – Midseason Report Card from 2021-07-16T00:31:17
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay discuss the latest team news and recap the past 13 games of Tigers baseball. Then they go to great lengths to give an 84-game report card to every main position player and pi...
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Episode 131: Sitting Down with Rojas Jr from 2021-07-02T05:11:24
Hosts T-Ray and JD discuss the latest team news and recap the past 11 games of Tigers baseball. They name their hitters and pitchers of the month for June and T-Ray has a talk with the newest Tiger...
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Episode 130: Our Remaining Rivals from 2021-06-17T06:53:42
Hosts T-Ray, JD and Sanjay discuss the latest team news and recap the past 11 games of Tigers baseball. Now, let’s face it, there are only two other CL teams that have a shot at the pennant this ye...
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Episode 129: Interleague Preview Part 2 from 2021-06-03T01:25:12
Hosts T-Ray, Sanjay and Gabe discuss the latest team news, recap the past 8 games of Tigers baseball, take a cheap shot at our manager, choose our players of the month, and share our limited knowle...
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Episode 128: Interleague Preview Part 1 from 2021-05-20T06:30:21
Hosts T-Ray, Sanjay and Gabe discuss the latest team news, the past 9 games of Tigers baseball, and share our limited knowledge about the first three teams the Tigers will face during interleague p...
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Episode 127: To Build a Dynasty… from 2021-05-06T23:59:20
Hosts T-Ray, JD and Gabe discuss the latest team news, the past 12 games of Tigers baseball, and what the team needs to do to ensure it will remain competitive? relevant? dominant??? for years to c...
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Episode 126: A Real Gaijin Problem from 2021-04-21T13:00:20
Hosts T-Ray, JD and Sanjay bask in the glow of the team’s previous 10 games, and then try to offer possible solutions to the import problem that manager Akihiro Yano is about to need to figure out:...
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Episode 125: First Impressions of 2021 from 2021-04-08T22:25:39
Hosts T-Ray and Sanjay go over the first 10 games of the Tigers’ 2021 regular season, and then give their first impressions of the way the team has been managed, as well as the starters, rotation a...
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Episode 124 – Central League Prediction Show! from 2021-03-25T07:35:58
Host T-Ray is joined by JD, Sanjay and Gabe to discuss what is going to be new and different in this 2021 season. Also, we are joined by a whole bunch of people who sent in their predictions for th...
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Episode 123 – Other CL Team Previews from 2021-03-17T08:38:26
Host T-Ray and Sanjay are joined by Scott, founder & curator of the Chunichi Dragons English blog. Follow him on Twitter too! (@dragonsoulblog). We break down what all the other CL teams have been ...
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Episode 122 – Jockeying for Position from 2021-03-03T08:51:52
Host T-Ray and crew (JD & Sanjay) give you updates on the team upon their completion of spring training in Okinawa/Kochi. Then they discuss which players should get the bulk of the playing time at ...
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Episode 121 – Catching Up; Sands Interview from 2021-02-18T02:15:30
Host T-Ray and crew (JD & Sanjay) are back for a new season of H-TEN! This episode sees the guys going over the departures and additions, recounting various memories along the way. Plus, we are joi...
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Two Talkin’ Torakichi: Episode 009 (Part 1) from 2020-11-17T08:58:48
Tora (?) = Tiger Kichi (??) = short for kichigai (???) = lunatic We are… Episode 009: H-TEN Awards 2020 Here we are at the end of a shortened (but extra-long) 2020 regular season, my man. The Tiger...
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Episode 120 – Why We Keep Watching from 2020-09-24T13:01:42
Host T-Ray is joined by co-host Sanjay to discuss the news, the past 15 games of action, and why this team is still worth watching the rest of the way despite being all but eliminated from the post...
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Episode 119 – SOS: Save Our Season! from 2020-09-08T02:55:16
Host T-Ray is joined by co-hosts JD and Gabe to talk about the fortnight that was, sling mud in our manager’s face, choose players of the month for August, and discuss some potential trades they wo...
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Episode 118 – Yellow & Black Fever Author Interview from 2020-08-25T02:31:18
Host T-Ray is joined by co-host Sanjay and guest Gabe to talk about the fortnight that was, plus listen to T-Ray’s interview with Yellow & Black Fever author James McKnight. As a follow-up, check o...
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Episode 117 – BOGY (Bad Ohyama, Good Yusuke) from 2020-08-10T16:45:59
Host T-Ray flies solo this time around. After sharing the latest team news, he recaps games 31-43 of the regular season, chooses a pitcher & hitter of the month for July, digs into Yano’s decision-...
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Episode 116 – The Bench & The Bullpen from 2020-07-28T01:06:10
Host T-Ray is joined by JD and Sanjay as they discuss Games 19-30 of the season (an 8-3-1 stretch). Also, they discuss the role of role players, and whether or not the team has their best guys up o...
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Episode 115 – Time to Build Some Rocking Chairs? from 2020-07-13T15:00:54
Host T-Ray is joined by Sanjay as they discuss Games 10-18 of the season. Also, they talk in detail about three veterans (Kosuke Fukudome, Atsushi Nohmi, Kyuji Fujikawa) who are off to incredibly s...
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Episode 114 – Time to Rebuild Already? from 2020-06-30T02:39:31
WARNING! Sound quality unintentionally reflects Hanshin’s record. It is very poor. If you stop listening part-way through, or just pass on this one altogether, we completely understand. Our apologi...
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