Quick thing, I messed up talking about the Marines place in the standings in 2004. I forgot to change the winning percentages and games back when I copied over the template. Whoops. The W-L-T records are correct tho. Sorry.

22:34 Props to Hanshin for trying to prevent every run and *playing the infield in*, down by 8, but that is some next-level desperation...

The persona music gets me every time on these videos. Thank you for divulging the beautiful story of japanese baseball for us foreigners!!

"A lot of this was thanks to the Buffaloes tanking after losing Ralph Bryant and Hideo Nomo" Hahahaha, soooo true. As a Kintetsu Buffaloes fan, I really appreciate the perspective of that team that you've brought to light in your videos, and everything is just ... right on the money. Great work, man.

After watching this I totally understand the belief in the Colonel Sanders curse. Definitely has some Cubs/Red Sox vibes(prior to them both winning recently) or even Mets vibes. I truely feel for Tigers fans after watching this. Absolutely brutal series. As a lifelong spoiled Yankees fan this brings back memories of the nightmare 2004 ALCS (also happy to see Shane Spencer continued his career in NPB) Sometimes teams just get hot at the right time like that. I hope the Tigers win a Japan series soon. There fans deserve it.

Enjoyed this. Thank you!

Also won the Asia series that year

I'm always enjoy your content. Cheers from Indonesia!

Jeez Louise if you still have issues with that Hanshin video you’re still working on, that story you mentioned about half the Ouendan being banned for life sounds so fascinating that almost needs to be a priority.

Hey man, love your all your work (esp. with the history of all the NPB teams) but I think this may be my favorite of all the ones you've done. It invokes similar vibes with Secret Base's "The Worst" series and I feel could slot in as the next installment seamlessly with some minor stylistic adjustments. Keep up with what you're doing, you're one of the reasons why I have an appreciation of Japanese baseball and its history.

2005 Makoto Imaoka is a baffling stat line. 147 RBI in 146 games, yet ‘only’ an .830 OPS. Well more less than any mega RBI MLB season I can find. Typical RBI a game MLB season like that is 1.000 plus. Going on the deep dive list.

Hey Gaijin, Just wanted to say I'm really loving your work so far having found your channel a little while ago. As it happens you and I make similar types of videos, and we're both working to bring a lot of NPB content to youtube in English. That being the case I thought I'd reach out see if maybe you ever wanted to work together on a video at some point! If that's something you'd be interested in let me know! Either way keep up the good work :) looking forward to more content.

Even as a Yankee fan I always liked Bobby. He was like that crazy Italian uncle that some how was put in charge of a baseball team.

To answer your question on why Kataoka-senshu and not Shane Spencer, righty-lefty matchup. So much for that advantage.

love the content! just curious, where do yu get all these old NPB games? I'd love to watch some old games considering it's kinda hard to watch modern NPB in the states, and I'd like to take in more NPB history

Black and White baseball uniforms In 2005, what can you do.

33-4 is a long loved internet meme among yakyu fans in Japan.

11:34 Masato Watanabe.

ah, 33-4, classic japanese internet meme, love it

So they were basically the White Sox

I appreciate the English NPB content, but I think I need to point out that "gaijin" is not really a good translation of "foreigner" in Japanese. It's frequently abused by far-right racist groups in Japan, and a whole lot of foreigners in Japan (and Japanese) find it offensive....

Dan Serafini has been charged with murder of his Father-In-Law and attempted murder of the Mother-In-Law as well. I don’t think he has gone to trail yet. Crazy.