Week 29 - The End: 8/11 - 11/11 (Cops After Nicochan, The Kitchen Sink Is Broken, Oh Boy!, The End) Weeks 27 & 28: 7/29 - 8/11 (Totemo Atsui Ne, A Day I Have Been Dreading) Weeks 25 & 26: 7/15 - 7/28 (Rain in Chiba, Bringing Them To Their Knees, All-Star Break, Darn It!) Weeks 23 & 24: 7/1 - 7/14 (Getting lifted, tough travel, family in Tachikawa, Old Nemesis) Weeks 21 & 22: 6/17 - 6/30 (Not so bright, Nice in Nagoya) Weeks 19 & 20: 6/3 - 6/16 (Hiatus over, the minor league experience, oil massage, Hiroshima-Koshien trip, Atarashii gaijin) Weeks 15 & 18: 5/6 - 6/2 (No blog entries during this time, on hiatus) Weeks 13 & 14: 4/22 - 5/5 (Sweep in Tokyo, Hawks fans in Tokyo, bump in the road) Weeks 11 & 12: 4/8 - 4/21 (Tenjin, Costco, updated bullpen, Kitakyushu mess, my first tie, Sendai, Thai massage, Hawks' slumping) Weeks 9 & 10: 3/25 - 4/7 (Getting back on the mound, biting my tongue, fight money, Morifu, "The Pitch" heard around the world) Week 8: 3/18 - 3/24 (Finishing up Spring Training, how pitchers' cheat, team dinner, darts, Opening Day!) Week 7: 3/11 - 3/17 (Onomichi, local stadiums, Nagoya, First time in Tokyo, Roppongi, Count down to Opening Day) Week 6: 3/4 - 3/10 (Family arrives, Yamazaki, Mr. Oh's offer, family shopping, international school, Rick's finger, CJ's Birthday, bullet train) Week 5: 2/25 - 3/3 (Back to Fukuoka, team suit, driving, grocery shopping, first exhibition games, Megan at the airport) Week 4: 2/18 - 2/24 (Pitchers' golf tourney, Buck gets sick, Intersquad game, Megan + CJ) Week 3: 2/11 - 2/17 (Special fungo, big crowd, hotel bar, sim game, Ohmura, golf with Takeoka, Balking, 234 pitch bullpen, Players' Union, Lisa + CJ, rainy day) Week 2: 2/4 - 2/10 (First weekend, golf, Phi Slamma Jamma, Dinner with Mr. Oh., Miyazaki Mall, Korean BBQ) Week 1: 1/28 - 2/3 (Pre flight thoughts, flight, arrival to Japan, meeting team, Oh, trip to Miyazaki)