This one should be good.
After a long season and two rounds of playoffs, 12 teams have been whittled down to two. Beginning this weekend, those teams, the Central League champion Hiroshima Carp and the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, champions of the Pacific League, will compete in the Japan Series.
The Carp and their rabid fanbase have waited for this since 1991, the last year the team reached the Japanese Fall Classic. After over two decades of B-Class finishes, the Carp harkened back to the glory days of the Aka-Heru era with a franchise-record 89-win season that was tops in Japan. Now they stand just four wins away from completing the rebirth with their first Japan Series title since 1984.