Halloween where I live is pretty non-existent except in nightclubs and apartment complexes where rich families who spend  75% of their income on English lessons live. I’m guessing China is much the same. They’re more into it in Japan, although given this from the NYT, I’m not sure if I’d be diving into the candy tonight.
Inventor Spot has a […]

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In the first inning of Tuesday’s contest the Chunichi Dragons rapped out seven straight hits leading to seven runs to put Game 3 away quickly and take a 2-1 lead in the Japan Series.
The 9-1 tally was one better than Game 2 and suddenly Trey Hillman’s Nippon Ham Fighters are looking punchless outside of Darvishland.

Tyrone Woods started the onslaught with a single […]

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Best known for her roles in the action/erotic movies known as Pink Films (aka Pinky Violence)  Ike Reiko became a Japanese sensation during the 1970s, before running into various legal difficulties and dropping out of acting all together by the end of the decade.
With titles like Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha, Terrifying Girls High School: Women’s Violent Classroom, Criminal Woman: Killing Melody, her […]

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It doesn’t even feel like four days let alone four games played during six days, but less than a week ago it looked like Doosan might be headed for a sweep of its mighty winged dragon-like foe.
But it wasn’t to be just as it did all through the KBO regular season the Wyvrens blazed a […]

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On Monday evening Yu Darvish became the first Nippon Ham Fighter to win the prestigious Sawamura award for the league’s best pitcher. 

The 21-year-old Darvish won 15 games on the year, posting a 1.82 ERA and leading the league with 210 strikeouts.
From Japanball.com:
Winners are picked normally from starting pitchers according to basic standards of 15 wins, […]

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Sadly, this will be the final edition of “A Frontrunner’s Guide to World Series Games Using Win Expectancy Tables.” My friend Man-su is has refused to do Game 4, and says we must stop with Game 3. 
Since he works a lot during the week (and often on Saturdays) he doesn’t answer the phone on weekends, […]

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It’s Cook vs. Lester tonight, a matchup that no one can really analyze given the amount of time off both these guys have had. Lester looked nice in his relief appearance in the ALCS, but Cook hasn’t been seen in months.I was kind of right last night on the type of game we’d see, and […]

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Chunichi starting pitcher Kenichi Nakata gave up one run over eight innings as the Dragons whipped the Nippon Ham Fighters 8-1 to knot up the best-of-seven Japan Series at one game apiece. 
Norihiro Nakamura (pictured above) doubled in two runs in the top of the fourth inning en route to a 4-0 lead. Later, Korean Lee Byung-kyu added a two-run homer in […]

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When I was reminded that the NFL was playing an exhibition game in London this week I couldn’t help but laugh.
Here comes the NFL. Within the same week that the NBA finishes a colossally successful exhibition tournament in China, and Major League Baseball is set to announce regular season games in Japan for 2008, the NFL still […]

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Figueroa’s Complete Game, Fielding Mistakes Finish off La New Bears as Tong Yi Wins 2007 Taiwan Series
Tainan’s Uni President Lions are the 2007 CPBL champions. The Lions won the rubber match in game 7 in Kaohsiung Sunday night, defeating the La New Bears 4-2 behind a dominating complete game start from SP Nelson Figueroa. Figueroa […]

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Our man on the scene in New York brings you full blogging coverage of game 3, as Matsuzaka outguns the always, er, dangerous Josh Fogg.
• Giant Papi starting at first, with Yooooouk sitting: I don’t like this move much. I understand the need for Papi’s bat to be in the lineup, but I’d be […]

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Manilla Sunrise

Matsuzaka won the game, but not the war 
Opening Day: White Elephants and the Stockings
From the media who reported Shawn Kemp was coming to Korea this year
Korean Coach Yoo Seung-ahn says that Park Chan-ho may play in the Asian Preliminaries for the Beijing Olympics
Hmmm…Newly appointed Yakult Swallows manager Shigeru Takada says he wants to make […]

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The question:
Is seung yop lee ever gonna come to the MLB? if he is, when is he coming?
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that guy is a great home run hitter, we all saw it at the world baseball classic, but why isnt he coming to play at MLB?
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His path to the MLB is blocked […]

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The SK Wyvrens moved within one game of clinching its first ever KBO championship with a 4-0 win in Game 5 over the stunned Doosan Bears.
While the Wyvrens used the youth movement in Game 4 to achieve the 4-0 tally, Game 5 was all about the elders, namely longtime Lotte Giant and 13-year veteran Kim Jae-hyun, […]

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Kenshin Kawakami was phenomenal, allowing just two hits over eight innings and setting down 21 straight batters for the Chunichi Dragons.
But he still lost.
Fernando Seguignol hit a 0-2 fastball into the seats in right-center for a 3-run HR. The shot was proceeded the only two walks Kawakami would yield in the game and it was plenty of room for […]

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After falling Behind 3 games to 1 in the 2007 Taiwan Series, Defending CPBL Champions La New Bears evened the series at 3 games each, forcing the deciding game 7 tomorrow afternoon in Kaohsiung. Last year’s series hero, DH Chen Chin- Fong, again came up big, driving in 5 runs on a pair of home […]

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The EWC would like to welcome New Yawk City guest writer Juice as he blogs the 2007 World Series. When not holding it down on NYC basketball courts, rubbing elbows with Wall St. Journal writers, NYC governor Elliot Spitzer, or other Gawker-worthy luminaries in the Big Apple, our DC-born Brooklyn denizen blogs about and cheers […]

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With the Japan series set to kick off this evening there are several previews by the major newspapers cropping up. The Daily Yomiuri, perhaps still in agony over last week’s wonderful Giants collapse, checks in with a positional breakdown and an overview that fleshes out some of the variances in the two home ballparks the Fighters […]

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Grinning and hopping around the mound in a way reminiscent of a young Kim Byung-hyun, Friday’s starter for SK Kim Gwang-hyun dominated the Doosan Bears, throwing 7 1/3 inn of one-hit ball, leading the Wyverns to a 4-0 win.
SK’s Kim (who is just 19) was dazzling, allowing just one hit to Lee Jeong-wook, and striking out nine. […]

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