高校野球 (Kokoyakyu)

For those that will be looking to this site for updates on Natsu Koushien tournament updates and the like, there will be some changes effective immediately.

First of all, while I will continue to try and get the brackets updated on a regular basis, but will not comment as thoroughly as I did before.  I will just mention notable teams whenever appropriate.

There are several reasons for this.  First of all, I still like 高校野球 and I'd like to keep it that way.  Doing this coverage for 6 years has in some ways burned me out a bit.  As you can tell from some of my commentaries and feeling regarding it now, the luster has been dulled a bit and the attempts in daily coverage during my non-working hours has burned me out a lot and made it harder each year for me to do this in general.  So to preserve it in some ways, I will be doing less in the buildup to Natsu Koushien.

Also I have to accept that in the 6 years I've done this, while I have some followers who have been very loyal to the blog, readership really hasn't increased and while it sounds like complaining, it's a lot of work.

I don't know what this will mean for Natsu Koushien itself, if the live blogging will continue or if it will be more of a game recap with exceptionally notable AB's or plays.  I'm sure that while my commentary on a pitch-by-pitch basis is liked, I'm sure there is a lot of boredom during a lot of games.