Japanese pronunciations are tricky if you don’t speak the language. I think you did a great job (as a native Japanese speaker) so keep doin what you doin man! Love your contents
@@ragingjapaneeet9274 I have to respectfully disagree. For a native English speaker, pronunciation should be the easiest part of learning Japanese. It has few if any phonemes not present in English (ふ is the only one that comes to mind), and in general has only half as many phonemes as English. Learning English pronunciation as a native Japanese speaker is many times more difficult than the reverse.
@@peachykeen3194 This is true, but only really holds for people who can at least read kana. People who either do not know Japanese or have only studied introductory language tend to have only seen it transliterated using Roman letters, and these do not convey the sounds visually at all. When he says 巨人 as "Kai-yoh-jinn", for example, it took me a second to realize "Oh, he must have seen this written in Romaji like 'Kyojin' and made a similar mistake people make when reading 'Tokyo' as 'Tow-key-yow'." It happens all the time and should be expected. People watching this care more about the stated subject of this video than the pronunciation details, myself included. Foreigners don't freak out when they hear people here say McDonald's as "Makudonarudo" -- just just pause, maybe giggle on realizing what is going on, and move on. It's OK. Not a big deal.
@@zxq9419 Maybe I'm just a pedant, but I guess from my point of view, if you have time to make a 40 minute video, and have time to write an apologetic comment, then you have time to learn the proper pronunciation. If you care enough about Japanese baseball - and by extension, Japan - to make a video like this, then caring enough to use proper pronunciation should come naturally.
@@peachykeen3194 never said speaking is the hardest part, just said it was tricky. So idk why you’re being so bitter about this lol He probably didn’t have basic knowledge on Japanese phonics so yeah why so mad that he didn’t pronounce it correctly? 日本語喋れますアピールしたかったのかな？ 日本語喋れるなら文化も学ぼう？せっかくこんな風に動画作ってくれたのに細かいことグチグチ言ったら「もう日本の野球について動画作らーん」ってなるだけやで？？ (Did you want to brag that you can speak Japanese? Please learn the culture if your gona learn the language. By you fiddling around nitpicking stuff, the only thing the creator is going to say is “screw this covering NPB ain’t worth it” ) Again, It is not a big deal, and there’s no need for YOU to be sour about this.
Good to see more baseball content creators covering NPB in such depth. A lot of potential fans of Japanese baseball are lost because of the lack of accessibility. But the English-speaking NPB community is small but close knit and active, so I recommend everyone give NPB a go.
There is English-speaking interest in NPB? Other than our somewhat ridiculous ground rules for indoor stadiums (to be fair, MLB has plenty of ridiculous ground rules in indoor stadiums as well, just fewer indoor stadiums in general), I suppose it is a quite easy to follow league and we have really good telecast quality. 野球ポッドキャストをやった方がいいのかな…英語で？
As someone who is more familiar with American baseball scandals like the Black Sox Scandal and the Steroid Scandal, this is the first time I’ve heard about a Japanese baseball scandal.
A year late, but there are a few I know. I don't believe they were as big as the steroid scandal and such. 😅 Several pictures were caught in a gambling scandal back in 2015. Also, apparently, electronic sign stealing was an issue 2 decades ago for Japanese baseball.
@@cococock2418guess what everyone is not from America believe it or not so no not LITERALLY everyone knows more about the scandals in the US so take a chill pill .Yanks never travel and think the US is the whole world in total
... and just as I was editing a video on this topic. Whelp that's getting pushed back so I don't get accused of piggybacking off you. Glad to see a bigger channel covering Japanese baseball tho.
Didn’t think you would do one from my home country Japan!! Great content. Would love to see you cover the strike that happened in NPB when they were trying to narrow the teams down to 6. Was pretty messed up but this one man stood up to save Japanese pro baseball.
this episode is so highly underrated. I understand a lot of your subs may be more inclined to the shorter videos you do, but this was amazing. seeing it at such a low view count when compared to your other videos, even the ones released afterwards, is a bit upsetting, even if all of your videos are high quality. this one did such a good job of breaking the mold and telling a story most of us never experienced
Even as a die hard NPB fan, I didn’t know some of the history that the league had! Hope to see more NPB content in future… (Maybe like the best NPB players who could play in the MLB etc)
Mr. Steve Carlton learned effective slider from Mr. Fumio Narita of Lotte Orions (25:50 -26:03) when he played against Japan's pro baseball team as a Cardinal in 1968. Mr. Carlton tried just-learned slider on Mr.Sadaharu Oh and flipped Oh with it.
Absolutely outstanding! I have followed Japanese baseball for a long while (my dad worked there and brought me home swag in the 80s) and never knew this. Guess we don't talk about the worst aspects of our game broadly. This is fascinating. I wonder if Ikanaga is a bit like Shoeless Joe (although even more clean). Sad we never got to see his career (or him coming stateside, given he was clean). But you should feel proud of a fantastic documentary including a little "this causes this" from your other channel. Keep up the excrement work, and I'll keep sending links to it to my friends.
if u wonder why the people that were not involved in the bribery (i.e. team owners, ceos, and more) resigned, that is how Japanese do. They have no involvement, but they feel responsible for it (probably because they feel responsible for letting it happen under their lead without their acknowledgement). feeling responsible, that's why
It is shocking that a newspaper that covers Waterford Connecticut has an article about baseball in Waterford Connecticut that is longer than one about baseball in Japan! :O Really though, kudos to The Day for having a write up about it at all in 1970.
it’s a shame the algorithm hasn’t pushed this one like other vids, because this is by far my favorite vid and in my opinion best vid i’ve seen on the channel, which is saying something bc ur not short on bangers. love opening up the content to NPB and other leagues and what that could bring
I still can’t believe when the Wyverns used Shinada Tetsuo as a scapegoat for their systematic match fixing. The guy only got one at bat in his very promising career because of them, and he was the only one on the team that *wasn’t* in on it
When just listening to this, eventually the Japanese names just blend together cause you just cant hold that many completely new names in your short term memory. If more of those involved were named Carl itd be easier for me at least. Surprised Pete Rose never got in on it... Or has that just not been uncovered yet?
I feel bad for Masayuki Nagayasu, his picture looks tragic. He just looked like a ball-player, who once did and may still love the game, and with all the joy & courage he can muster tries to provide for his loved ones with this one skill, a skill that's oppressively competitive. And yeah he took bribes and bets, but don't take away what he loves forever.- Anyway, my heart felt that.
Just got around to watching this, awesome job man. Super interesting topic and extremely well told. Love these longer form documentary style videos from you
I'm kind of shocked that the Japanese local press were able to put out the stories they did considering the strength of the Yakuza in that era. The American Mafia 100% wouldn't be letting reporters rat them out
@@derkaiserzenThe Mafia had enormous political influence at their peak. Between the early ‘30s & (roughly) the late ‘60s/early ‘70s La Cosa Nostra & it’s associates were almost like a comic book supervillain organization. They were stupidly powerful. They made Lex Luthor & The Legion of Doom look like amateurs.
Great video. It is sad to see what happened to the Lions in the 1970s, but you have to give kudos to Yoshiaki Tsutsumi of Seibu of taking on the unenviable task of rehabiliting a team whose image had taken a hit from the scandal towards the decade's end. Safe to say, Tsutsumi's reclamation project was a resounding success.
Yo storm, you should check out matt olsen's 2017 season. he had 1.003 ops in 59 games. out of his 49 hits, 24 of them were home runs!!49% of his hits were home runs. that's crazy! he had a 166 ops+ and had a .392 ISO. that could be a cool video
In order to drive the algorithm I shall make a very pedantic comment. I personally never heard of this scandal but I believe the title should read: “The Biggest Baseball Scandal You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of.” I’m sure plenty of NPB fans have heard of this scandal.
I apologize in advance for the mispronunciation
Japanese pronunciations are tricky if you don’t speak the language. I think you did a great job (as a native Japanese speaker) so keep doin what you doin man! Love your contents
@@ragingjapaneeet9274 I have to respectfully disagree. For a native English speaker, pronunciation should be the easiest part of learning Japanese. It has few if any phonemes not present in English (ふ is the only one that comes to mind), and in general has only half as many phonemes as English. Learning English pronunciation as a native Japanese speaker is many times more difficult than the reverse.
@@peachykeen3194 This is true, but only really holds for people who can at least read kana. People who either do not know Japanese or have only studied introductory language tend to have only seen it transliterated using Roman letters, and these do not convey the sounds visually at all. When he says 巨人 as "Kai-yoh-jinn", for example, it took me a second to realize "Oh, he must have seen this written in Romaji like 'Kyojin' and made a similar mistake people make when reading 'Tokyo' as 'Tow-key-yow'." It happens all the time and should be expected. People watching this care more about the stated subject of this video than the pronunciation details, myself included. Foreigners don't freak out when they hear people here say McDonald's as "Makudonarudo" -- just just pause, maybe giggle on realizing what is going on, and move on. It's OK. Not a big deal.
@@zxq9419 Maybe I'm just a pedant, but I guess from my point of view, if you have time to make a 40 minute video, and have time to write an apologetic comment, then you have time to learn the proper pronunciation. If you care enough about Japanese baseball - and by extension, Japan - to make a video like this, then caring enough to use proper pronunciation should come naturally.
@@peachykeen3194 never said speaking is the hardest part, just said it was tricky. So idk why you’re being so bitter about this lol
He probably didn’t have basic knowledge on Japanese phonics so yeah why so mad that he didn’t pronounce it correctly?
日本語喋れますアピールしたかったのかな？
日本語喋れるなら文化も学ぼう？せっかくこんな風に動画作ってくれたのに細かいことグチグチ言ったら「もう日本の野球について動画作らーん」ってなるだけやで？？
(Did you want to brag that you can speak Japanese? Please learn the culture if your gona learn the language. By you fiddling around nitpicking stuff, the only thing the creator is going to say is “screw this covering NPB ain’t worth it” )
Again, It is not a big deal, and there’s no need for YOU to be sour about this.
Good to see more baseball content creators covering NPB in such depth. A lot of potential fans of Japanese baseball are lost because of the lack of accessibility. But the English-speaking NPB community is small but close knit and active, so I recommend everyone give NPB a go.
There is English-speaking interest in NPB? Other than our somewhat ridiculous ground rules for indoor stadiums (to be fair, MLB has plenty of ridiculous ground rules in indoor stadiums as well, just fewer indoor stadiums in general), I suppose it is a quite easy to follow league and we have really good telecast quality. 野球ポッドキャストをやった方がいいのかな…英語で？
NPB is great! Got my SoftBank Hawks Jersey in my closet!
As someone who is more familiar with American baseball scandals like the Black Sox Scandal and the Steroid Scandal, this is the first time I’ve heard about a Japanese baseball scandal.
A year late, but there are a few I know. I don't believe they were as big as the steroid scandal and such. 😅
Several pictures were caught in a gambling scandal back in 2015.
Also, apparently, electronic sign stealing was an issue 2 decades ago for Japanese baseball.
What a pointless comment. Literally everyone is more familiar with America scandals… you’re not unique
@@cococock2418guess what everyone is not from America believe it or not so no not LITERALLY everyone knows more about the scandals in the US so take a chill pill .Yanks never travel and think the US is the whole world in total
"The giants were and are the most prestigious team in Japanese baseball"
*Every Hanshin Fan:* "I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed."
Tsuneo Watanabe is a villain MLB needed
You beat me to this...
This is a work of art Mr. Storm.
... and just as I was editing a video on this topic.
Whelp that's getting pushed back so I don't get accused of piggybacking off you.
Glad to see a bigger channel covering Japanese baseball tho.
Perfectly timed draft kings ad right as the gambling section started lol
I’ve been watching you for over a year and this might be the best video that you ever produced. Excellent job sir
Thank you!
Didn’t think you would do one from my home country Japan!! Great content.
Would love to see you cover the strike that happened in NPB when they were trying to narrow the teams down to 6. Was pretty messed up but this one man stood up to save Japanese pro baseball.
Really well done mini documentary!
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this episode is so highly underrated. I understand a lot of your subs may be more inclined to the shorter videos you do, but this was amazing. seeing it at such a low view count when compared to your other videos, even the ones released afterwards, is a bit upsetting, even if all of your videos are high quality. this one did such a good job of breaking the mold and telling a story most of us never experienced
Even as a die hard NPB fan, I didn’t know some of the history that the league had!
Hope to see more NPB content in future…
(Maybe like the best NPB players who could play in the MLB etc)
Mr. Steve Carlton learned effective slider from Mr. Fumio Narita of Lotte Orions (25:50 -26:03) when he played against Japan's pro baseball team as a Cardinal in 1968. Mr. Carlton tried just-learned slider on Mr.Sadaharu Oh and flipped Oh with it.
Its truly sad that we never heard about this dark part in Master Yoda's 900 years
It’s cool seeing classic baseball footage and pictures from japan back in the old days never thought I’d see that absolutely amazing.
Absolutely outstanding! I have followed Japanese baseball for a long while (my dad worked there and brought me home swag in the 80s) and never knew this. Guess we don't talk about the worst aspects of our game broadly. This is fascinating.
I wonder if Ikanaga is a bit like Shoeless Joe (although even more clean). Sad we never got to see his career (or him coming stateside, given he was clean).
But you should feel proud of a fantastic documentary including a little "this causes this" from your other channel. Keep up the excrement work, and I'll keep sending links to it to my friends.
if u wonder why the people that were not involved in the bribery (i.e. team owners, ceos, and more) resigned, that is how Japanese do. They have no involvement, but they feel responsible for it (probably because they feel responsible for letting it happen under their lead without their acknowledgement). feeling responsible, that's why
I'm not a Japanese, but i've known how Japanese are from TVs, and known some Japanese before, and they told me that fact.
I was surprised no one committed suicide in this video.
The editing on this video was god tier
It is shocking that a newspaper that covers Waterford Connecticut has an article about baseball in Waterford Connecticut that is longer than one about baseball in Japan! :O Really though, kudos to The Day for having a write up about it at all in 1970.
it’s a shame the algorithm hasn’t pushed this one like other vids, because this is by far my favorite vid and in my opinion best vid i’ve seen on the channel, which is saying something bc ur not short on bangers. love opening up the content to NPB and other leagues and what that could bring
I still can’t believe when the Wyverns used Shinada Tetsuo as a scapegoat for their systematic match fixing. The guy only got one at bat in his very promising career because of them, and he was the only one on the team that *wasn’t* in on it
Baseball, racing, and true crime. Man, you really put it in my wheelhouse with this one
Great video. Love to see creators approach topics that generally we won’t have heard of. Really well formatted and made as well
When just listening to this, eventually the Japanese names just blend together cause you just cant hold that many completely new names in your short term memory. If more of those involved were named Carl itd be easier for me at least. Surprised Pete Rose never got in on it... Or has that just not been uncovered yet?
You're not wrong, man. It's pretty tough. Definitely helps to watch and have a face to the name. But it can still be pretty difficult.
I feel bad for Masayuki Nagayasu, his picture looks tragic. He just looked like a ball-player, who once did and may still love the game, and with all the joy & courage he can muster tries to provide for his loved ones with this one skill, a skill that's oppressively competitive. And yeah he took bribes and bets, but don't take away what he loves forever.- Anyway, my heart felt that.
This is such an underrated channel. Thanks for the great content.
Awesome video man I'm so excited you made a longer form/ documentary type vid.
Just got around to watching this, awesome job man. Super interesting topic and extremely well told. Love these longer form documentary style videos from you
Great video sportsstorm, I always love seeing these and learning more about my favorite sport
Great video. Love all the music clips you added in as well, A+ video and production value buddy
This is so well done and interesting. Should have way more views! This topic can be made into a movie.
Fantastic content, as always, Good sir!
I'm kind of shocked that the Japanese local press were able to put out the stories they did considering the strength of the Yakuza in that era. The American Mafia 100% wouldn't be letting reporters rat them out
They're as ruthless as Yakuza..
More even
@@derkaiserzenThe Mafia had enormous political influence at their peak. Between the early ‘30s & (roughly) the late ‘60s/early ‘70s La Cosa Nostra & it’s associates were almost like a comic book supervillain organization. They were stupidly powerful. They made Lex Luthor & The Legion of Doom look like amateurs.
You’re an absolute workhorse dude. I love your channel and even more so knowing you’re also a Padres fan lol
I’ve never heard of this! Thanks SportStorm!
Great video. It is sad to see what happened to the Lions in the 1970s, but you have to give kudos to Yoshiaki Tsutsumi of Seibu of taking on the unenviable task of rehabiliting a team whose image had taken a hit from the scandal towards the decade's end. Safe to say, Tsutsumi's reclamation project was a resounding success.
Yo storm, you should check out matt olsen's 2017 season. he had 1.003 ops in 59 games. out of his 49 hits, 24 of them were home runs!!49% of his hits were home runs. that's crazy! he had a 166 ops+ and had a .392 ISO. that could be a cool video
Super interesting topic. Thanks for sharing!
Ichiro road to mlb would be a great video
great video man!
Consider myself a student of the game and never heard of this. Good work.
Outstanding video!
Love the part that touched on how the league was affected by the players being banned
brb putting this on the tv and getting popcorn & soda
This video is amazing! Abdolute banger getting me through work!
Really good work.
This video was awesome!
Black Mist sounds like the title of a spy/crime thriller…
25:05 The housekeeper and the professor memories
lovely book
3:01 Masahiro Tanaka right there
Always a good day when a baseball history video goes up
Amazing, love international baseball
In order to drive the algorithm I shall make a very pedantic comment. I personally never heard of this scandal but I believe the title should read: “The Biggest Baseball Scandal You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of.” I’m sure plenty of NPB fans have heard of this scandal.
This could legit be a movie
17:16 - 17:30
I'm surprised too at that articles length. But it being a US newspaper covering Japanese baseball..I'm sadly not surprised
I mean it’s a local newspaper in Connecticut. I’m surprised it was even covered at all.
Why didn’t Ikenaga just went to another country ????????
Wow.. what a disaster
Say it ain't so, Nagayasu.
I *CAN* imagine what it felt like to be an astros fan, and it Fucking sucks
Good job
Wishing everyone a nice holiday weekend 👍🏽
Masterpiece (chefs kiss) 🤌🏼
So basically the Japan version of the Black Sox scandal?
What a fantastic vida, please keep talking miret about asian baseball
The tale of the Japanese Takashi 69
very cool
This is wild
Of course the mafia has to be involved
dude. the into had no reason to be that hard
Where was the Pete Rose Restoration Association, huh America?
Go BayStars.
I cannot applaud the effort to pronounce this shit any harder...
Be honest, what do the Japanese characters actually mean?
Idk how I missed this??? Tf
As a Astro fan y'all been cheating for a hot minute
they love naming baseball scandals "black"
This gonna be good 😈
Psalms 23:4❤Jesus Christ is love 😊
Baseball doesn’t exist