Zyl asks (on the old, non-joint blog):

P.S. Have been ruminating over the following two posts for a while and I’ve had an epiphany. Yeah, slowpoke.jpg but still…

The only connection between Marimite and Taishou Yakyuu Musume that I see is that Mamiko Noto is in both.

Maybe the epiphany was that he has to form the team, but I don't see how Marimite is involved.

UPDATE: Zyl e-mailed me to tell that the epiphany was to be more selective with screencaps in posts.