FUKUOKA — Max Maconachy grew up in Chicago, watching the Cubs and White Sox. But after spending more than a decade in Fukuoka, baseball is the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks for him.

Max — that's what he's more commonly called in Fukuoka — was recruited by the Hawks to become the stadium disk jockey for their home games at Yahoo Dome, while he hosted his own radio show on an FM station, four years ago.

"They heard me on the radio program and contacted me," Max, 37, said during the Pacific League Climax Series final stage between the Hawks and Chiba Lotte Marines last week. "And I was like, 'Oh yeah, it's great.' "