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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

After a super long hiatus Dan and I return with a pick-by-pick review of our 2016 draft picks. This episode was actually recorded in late November but work, video games, wrestling, and other distractions got in the way so I only got around to editing the episode this week. The information is still relevant and […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

David, Chris, and Kozo sit down together once more to discuss the first six weeks of the 2016 Swallows season. Up for discussion this episode: A word to describe the Swallows thus far. The state of the bunched-up CL as things stand. The state of the Swallows: Yamada’s continued superhero status, Coco’s return to everyday […]