On the Road with Bobby V. and Frank Ramppen

Stamford native Bobby Valentine blogs about life and baseball from the Land of the Rising Sun

Archive for the ‘MLB’ Category

Longest game in Pacific League history

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Today is Thursday, July 2, 2009, and we are in Tachikawa, the city we got lost trying to drive to as mentioned in a previous entry, to play the Lions. Since our last entry we have played four games, winning two and losing two. We split the last two games of the series against the  Read More

Remembering Michael Jackson and Mike Valentine

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Well, as mentioned in the previous entry, we faced Yu Darvish tonight, the top pitcher in the country and he was true to form. He had a no hitter through 7. He gave up 2 hits in the 8 and was relieved in the 9 and we lost 5-0. That was no fun!!!!! During our  Read More

Setting the record straight about the Washington Nationals job

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Hello Stamford, There has been some talk lately that a MLB team from Washington DC has contacted me about managing their team. I would like to set the record straight and say that the Nationals have not contacted me and I have not contacted them. Many people come to visit me here in Japan but  Read More