Pathetic
Games in Taiwan seem far more enthusiastic than ours here
Crazy enthusiasm 
Here guys: buy this calendar and help with Hualien recovery plus nice doggies who help rescue people.
Oh yes and the Fubon cheerleaders.
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Hilarious if real.
Maybe baseball needs more wrestling-like hype like this.
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The President flew out to Hawaii, but surprised see him Hawaii, Biden seems less busy and not care about it though so ok I guess.
It’s funny “professional wrestling” is among the things that make Europeans think Americans are stupid. Japanese have no shame and turned it up to the ninth degree.
I once had juice with this Polish woman who said, “Everything on Japanese TV looks stupid.” I said, “My roommate is Japanese. I’ll let him know.” She said, “He probably already knows.”
The NPB doesn’t have many lefties who throw high heat like Lin Yumin does, according to this American NPB fan.
Addendum: He also confirmed about a quarter of the stadium were Taiwanese fans.
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He’s got a media pass and all that. I think he’s more than just a fan.
It was a bit hard to get through all the “Chinese Taipeis” that he throw out, but I got past that after 2 minutes. A very well done recap, and even though Japan is the best overall team, I think baseball’s biggest draw has always been anything could be possible. So Japan ending their streak wouldn’t be a bad thing.
They probably gave him a media style guide with instructions on how to refer to the team. 
Not sure if you know:
Rebas has a podcast!
In the podcast they said Chin Ketsuken knew he couldn’t hit one low and in, so he paid his own way to a training camp in Japan to work on it.
Other gems from the podcast:
- 陳冠宇 (Kanu)’s whiff rate in the opening round on his split finger was a staggering 63%.
- Taiwan’s OPS on fastballs 150 kph and over was about 200 lower than its overall OPS in the opening round, with only one extra base hit (Dai’s HR). It got better in the super round.
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Where did you find this report?
It was from a Japanese twitter post.
Rebas has a post with almost the charts
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The clip talks about shaking the roster up for the WBC.
The reason why the US and Japan are still the best is that they could easily field at least 2 more teams equally as good as their Premier 12 teams. For most other countries, their Premier 12 team is as good as they can get. Maybe for the WBC they can add a couple of MLB players, but that’s about it.
I don’t see how Taiwan’s WBC team shake things up. Even if Yu Chang returns to form, pitching-wise this Premier 12 team is about as good as it gets for now. I guess if we could have Corbin Carroll play that’d be something new, but Team Taiwan needs bigger bats at 3 and 5.
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Premier 12 Indigenous players
| Name | Hanji | Ethnicity | Position | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giljegiljaw Kungkuan | 吉力吉撈．鞏冠 | Paiwan | C | Dragons |
| 林凱威 | Pangcah | P | Dragons | |
| 張奕 | Truku, Pangcah | P | Guardians | |
| 吳俊偉 | Paiwan | P | Brothers | |
| 黃恩賜 | Pangcah | P | Brothers | |
| 林昱珉 | Pangcah | P | Reno Aces | |
| 李凱威 | Pangcah | 2B | Dragons | |
| Iyang | 潘傑楷 | Pangcah | 3B | Lions |
| 岳東華 | Altayal | 2B, 3B, SS | Brothers | |
| 林立 | Pangcah | 2B | Monkeys | |
| Djaekun | 邱智呈 | Paiwan | OF | Lions |
| 曾頌恩 | Pangcah | OF | Brothers | |
| 陳晨威 | Pangcah | OF | Monkeys | |
| 陳晨威 | Pangcah | OF | Monkeys |
Not sure if Djaekun is a version of Tjaykung found in Executive Yuan’s Indigenous Names reference.
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Pancah = Ami’s?
You listed Kaiwei and Chen Chen Wei twice.
The head of the analytics group is a former Brothers catcher. Makes sense the emphasis is on advance scouting.
Amis is an exonym given by Japanese antropologist Inō Kanori. Most Tribe names in Taiwan was determined by their word for people or our people, but for whatever reason, Ino asked the Pinuyumayan in Taidong what to call the Amis, and the Pinuyumayan replied Northerners, which gave us Amis. It came from the PAn root for north, *qamiS. This is also the same reason why people in Ponso no Tao were named Yami, and younger generations pushed for renaming to Tao, because people in the Batans called them Noetherners, and that was the Japanese researcher decided to use, instead of going with what people there call themselves.
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