I first wanted to thank everyone that posted a message for me.  You may not believe me when I say this, but your comments meant a lot to me and they went a long way towards helping me get through some things over the last few days.

Second, as I mentioned in a previous post, the wake took place on Friday and the funeral / cremation ceremonies took place on Saturday.  I actually couldn't catch the wake on Friday, but I was there for the funeral / cremation ceremonies.

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I just wanted to post a quick update regarding my posting schedule.

My grandmother's wake has been scheduled for later tonight in Karuizawa.  I might end up missing a portion of that due to work, but I have already informed my parents.

Funeral services for my grandmother will take place tomorrow.

Between today and tomorrow, you likely find my posts to be delayed.

Thank you for your understanding.

This has absolutely nothing to do with baseball, but it does have everything to do with me so I've decided to mention it here.

My grandmother passed away at 10:40am this morning at the age of 102.

I don't know anything else other than that.  My mother just called, told me of the news, and then asked that I call my father and my sister.

I'm not sure exactly how this will affect my update schedule here at the blog.  If there are any significant changes, I'll be sure to let all of you know.  For the time being, I'll be posting updates as usual.  But for the rest of today, all of my posts will be in honor of my grandmother.

I'm out of town right now and will be back in Tokyo on Tuesday afternoon.  My update schedule should return normal then.

Here are some easy to use links to various posts about Spring camp that have been posted at Yakyu Baka.

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Below are links to the Spring camp photos Sanspo is posting.  If by chance any of you visiting Yakyu Baka have taken any Spring camp photos, drop me a line (news at yakyubaka.com) with a link to them and I'll be more than happy to add it to the list below.

Have an interesting scoop or story?

If so, please don't hesitate to send it in.

I'm only one person here, so my time is limited and I usually focus my attention on Japanese sites (asides from the handful of posts I make on Japanese players in the Majors).  And that means there's a really good chance I'll miss out on some quality posts that may have been written by the English-speaking blogosphere.

Again, this isn't intentional.  It's just that there aren't enough hours in the day for me to sift through everything...  Unless of course I have your help.

So if any of you come across something that I've missed, or written something that you think might be of interest to other readers, please send it in to news[at]yakyubaka.com.

Sorry about the lack of timely updates.  Been having some computer problems that I think I've managed to finally sort out.  I also made a trek up to Sendai to try and catch a couple of Eagles' games.

FYI: I'm currently working on the game summaries and news updates.  I already posted the roster updates.

I decided to move the roster updates off the top page of the site in order to keep the news updates showing for a longer period of time.  You can now access the last 10 roster updates via the right sidebar.  You can also view all of them by visiting the Roster Updates category of the site (you can find the link to this category in the right sidebar in the "Various Handy Posts" block).

I may also end up doing this with the game summaries, although I'm still not 100%.  If anyone has any thoughts on how I can organize the information so that it's easier to find / read, please let me know.