Tokyo Swallows Podcast – 燕軍: The Tokyo Swallows (Archive)

Tokyo Swallows Podcast – 燕軍: The Tokyo Swallows (Archive)

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Tokyo Swallows Podcast – 燕軍: The Tokyo Swallows (Archive) episodes

  • Tokyo Swallows Podcast 42 (October, 2017)
    Dave, Chris, and Kozo get together around microphones in western Tokyo to lick the wounds from a historically bad season, possibly for the last time ever. Among the topics covered in this episode Kozo’s shoutout to the Alvark. Who’s 42? How historically bad was this season? Manaka’s exit Ogawa and assorted coaching changes Dave, Chris, […]
    56 min
  • Tokyo Swallows Podcast 41 (September, 2017)

    Dave, Chris, and Kozo come off of their summer vacations to discuss the state of the Swallows. Topics covered include:

    • Dave confuses the boys about the lineage of number 41
    • CL standing overview
    • How bad is this season historically?
    • Manaka and the manager situation
    • Kawabata injury update
    • Coco and his future with the team
    • Memorable games in 2017
    • The Sugiura-Yagi trade
    • The state of the rotation
    • The Yamada update
    • Jingu attendance situation
    • Retirement speculation

      • Recorded prior to the game on Sunday September 3, 2017.

      At the end of the podcast we pay tribute to friend of Tsubamegun, Toshiyuki “Take-chan” Takeo who passed away suddenly at the too young age of 37. Take-chan was Dave’s bandmate for over 10 years and while he wasn’t the biggest baseball fan but his kind heart touched all of us and we wanted to do something to honor his memory. Take-chan was an accomplished guitar player and we ended the podcast with a track that featured Take-chan’s guitar work, Rapture.

      You can download a higher quality version of the track here.

      We’ll miss you Take-chan! The world is a colder place without you in it but you’ll live on in our memories and through your music.

      Toshiyuki Takeo (1979-2017)
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      10 min
    • Tokyo Swallows Podcast 41 (September, 2017)
      Dave, Chris, and Kozo come off of their summer vacations to discuss the state of the Swallows. Topics covered include: Dave confuses the boys about the lineage of number 41 CL standing overview How bad is this season historically? Manaka and the manager situation Kawabata injury update Coco and his future with the team Memorable […]
      47 min
    • Tokyo Swallows Podcast 40 (July, 2017)
      David, Chris, and Kozo get together for the third time this year to discuss the downward slope this season has taken. This episode was recorded on the afternoon of July 9, just two days removed from the CARPocalypse. Topics this month include: The history of #40. The Swallows record. Reliving the CARPocalypse. Ogawa as a […]
      44 min
    • Tokyo Swallows Podcast 39 (May, 2017)
      David, Chris, and Kozo re-unite for a bit of a downer-cast as they cast a bleak eye over the bizarro first month and change of the new season. NOTE: This podcast was recorded way back on May 6, 2017, but life and stuff got in the way of posting it until now. Since then a […]
      36 min
    • Tokyo Swallows Podcast 38 (March, 2017)
      David, Chris, and Kozo get together for the first time this year to discuss the upcoming season in our annual Season Preview Extravaganzazazaza. Topics this month include: The Swallows’ #38. Pre-season excitement levels. 2016 Japan Series in-depth recap. Swallows vs. Children Exhibition Game. The Tokyo Swallows are now officially the most popular team in Japan […]
      57 min
    • Tokyo Swallows Podcast 37 (October, 2016)
      David, Chris, and Kozo get together for the final time this year to discuss the last month of the 2016 season and it’s aftermath. Waffled about topics this month include: The end of meaningful baseball. #37 and the world of back-up catchers. The Swallows’ dreary September. The starting pitching regression and subsequent drop to 5th. Clinching beverage […]
      47 min
    • Tokyo Swallows Podcast 36 (September, 2016)
      David, Chris, and Kozo once again assemble like Voltron for their (relatively happy) monthly chat about all things Swallows. Up for discussion this month: Swallows “special” #36 The current state of Swallowsland and the CL as a whole (NOTE: I mentioned the Carp would clinch either in Nagoya, or at Tokyo Dome. I was incorrect, […]
      39 min
    • Tokyo Swallows Podcast 35 (August, 2016)
      Summer has brought the heat and sweat to Tokyo and David, Chris, and Kozo get together once more to lament the continued dumpster fire that is the Swallows’ 2016 season. On the docket this month: The less than glamorous number 35. The 3 tiers of CL separation. The perpetual problem of (shitty) starting pitching, featuring […]
      37 min
    • Tokyo Swallows Podcast 34 (July, 2016)
      The TS Podcast team got together once more to discuss the world of the Swallows up to the end of the Inter League schedule. We neglected to mention the promising signs of the team’s first week of the resumption of CL hostilities, but that would have only cursed the team going forward. On the agenda […]
      42 min

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    A partial archive of an unofficial English blog that covered the Tokyo Yakult Swallows baseball team from 2008 to 2022