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It was weird to see a major league pitcher not be able to throw a strike, and in a number of cases, not able to reach the catcher.

Also weird to see a pitcher start the championship series after only 1 or 2 starts all season.

It would've been better if he at least lasted longer. Now the Mets had to waste their bullpen pitchers as well.

Dodgers have now gone like 33 innings without giving up a single run.

After I said their pitching wasn't good enough. So far they proved me wrong.

Darvish gave up three hits in 6 2/3 innings, struck out four and walked one. He dropped to 0-5 in elimination games — four of them quality starts.

Feel bad for the guy. Let's not forget how the Astros cheated in the World Series as well. He should be given a ring.

That said, they're up 5-0 but will have to face Darvish again if they win this one.

Goes on to show you that you can field the highest paid athletes on a team and still lose! It's not over for the Dodgers they have one more game before they can go fishing, but I must warn you, should they lose it will be a rinse and repeat all over again and the sports columnist will tear them apart.

Their pitching is garbage, though. (As is the work of most "sports columnists")

You need good pitching to win at this level, and winning 9-8, 10-7, etc. during the regular season doesn't bode well for the postseason. Ohtani can help them in that department next season, but they still need some more reliable pitchers.

I also think a lot of people are fooled by the media coverage of Ohtani, but fail to realize the Padres were the best team the 2nd half of the season, and it will in no way be an upset if they win the series.

The police kept repeating "shouganai" for each of the first 1,300 calls. But on the 1,301st call they decided to do something about it.

Some friends of mine have read that they are letting Ohtani hit homers and steal lots of bases because of the publicity it gets for the sport. What do you think? And why Ohtani?

Wasn't true when you posted this yesterday and still isn't today.

And why do you think your friends have read stuff that we haven't?

But there’s one thing no one seems to be talking about regarding all the stolen bases. And that’s the fact that last season, the bases were enlarged to increase the number of steals and make the game more exciting. Also, a new rule was implemented that limited the number of times a pitcher can attempt to pick off a runner. I wonder how many steals Ohtani would have under the old rules.

Actually, a lot of people have talked about that. Even her on Japan Today. But you don't see other players stealing bases left and right. In fact, while the success rate is higher, the overall stolen bags per game are still down from the 80s.

I think it has more to do with Ohtani, as a pitcher, studying the other pitchers and their habits, and taking advantage of that.

A couple of friends of mine are saying that the other teams are letting Ohtani get home runs and steel bases because of the publicity that baseball gets. This is a way to bring back crowds and make everyone a lot of money. Really???

No

The total amount of cashless settlements in Japan stood at 126.7 trillion yen in 2023, or a record 39.3 percent of overall consumption in the country, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The government is aiming to attain 40 percent by 2025.

So they want to go from 39.3 percent all the way to 40 percent in 2 years? Wow, what aggressive targets they have!

So the mother had a price on how to forgive such an act?

Pathetic.

A single mother, who might need the money to take care of her daughter.

The guy still went to court, so it's on the judge for not giving him any jail time.

skilled is code name for cheap.

Well Japan wants to bring people from Vietnam for filling in the unwanted cheap labor jobs and these sort of criminal activities will definitely happen as a result.

where does it say that they work in Japan?

 I wonder when they will upgrade their computers from XP?

In fairness, Windows XP was the best OS Microsoft ever made.

Can't wait for another Breath of the Wild rehash for the worst piece of gaming hardware in decades!

lol. They still have sony fanboys these days?

Kazuya Saito, a 34-year-old Tokyo resident, admitted to the theft, with police quoting him as saying, "Collecting women's uniforms is my hobby. I smelled it and wore it myself."

I always wonder why the police release these embarrassing quotes. If it is to deter would-be criminals, it certainly doesn't seem to be working.

I always thought the tune made perfect sense. Some people are just not going to care, no matter what the song is.

sounds gross.

A security guard at the facility saw him acting suspiciously and detained him on the spot, while the police were called.

Nice job by the security guard!

But the court gave Takakura a suspended sentence, as the driver of the minicar neglected to properly check for oncoming traffic before making a turn, the judge said.

I don't like this ruling. If someone was traveling at the speed of sound, would I still be responsible for not seeing them when turning onto the street? The guy was going twice the speed limit - he is the one that broke the law.

Android already has this functionality. Although still have to use NFC to swipe the card each time I login. And their custom app sucks balls btw. End up having to swipe the damned card multiple times in one session, and put in your four digit code each time you access another part of the app. It's just nonsense. Buggy as hell too.

If you have to swipe the card, that means you didn't set up your Android to function as a My Number card. Once you set it up, you no longer have to swipe the card to log into "MyNa portal". As far as I know, that is all you can use it for as of now.

No they don't, nowhere.

bottom of ad. katakana.

If you can't pass entrance exams for high schools or universities in this country nowadays,you must be severely lacking.

Not true at all, unless you want to go to a joke of a school. Despite the declining birth rate, more kids are competing for the same schools, and put in endless hours of cram school to prepare for the tests.

Ambulances take too long from the time arriving at a scene to the time of leaving. I have seen them taking more than 30 minutes. Surprised more patients don't die.

True. I'm wondering how long they took to leave in this case? The wrong turn probably wasn't the deciding factor.

When you have a 2-goal lead but take out Endo and put Mac Allister in his position, you deserve this outcome.

6 women, 120 months sentence. That means, scumbag trade 20 months of his worthless time for 5 seconds of whatever this scumbag is chasing. Doesn't sound like a person who should work in a TRADE ministry of a country, no wonder we've stagnated for 30 years.

As mentioned in the article, he settled with 3 of the victims. Still, I agree it is too light of a sentence. He should get at least 10 years just for the drugging part.

Okay, so Ohtani wanted this guy to help him set up an account and clearly it got set up and the bank would have needed Ohtani's signature. Why the need for an account to be set up by his translator? It does not add up even when you explain it.

It was 2018 when Ohtani first moved to MLB and likely didn't speak much English. Not sure why that is so hard to grasp.

Here is my question arranged a different way is how his translator could get access to this money without anyone including Ohtani not knowing?

This was all detailed already by law enforcement. and even posters above.

Ohtani has multiple bank accounts. For the account in question Mizuhara helped set it up personally and then repeatedly lied and told everyone Ohtani wanted to keep it private, when in fact it was just a cover.

The woman was no angel and this was not an ordinary stalker case. She made the guy sell all of his stuff and even go into debt. After extracting all of his money and then some, she dumped him.

He should be fired.