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East Windup Chronicle Still in Negotiations With Erina Matsui
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This is the first in a new series here at EWC where we ask some of the best individual team writers to contribute something on players that pertaining to this site. For now, these will focus on reviews of the 2007 season with a nod toward 2008. High points, low points, and where each player […]

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Korea Beat has a translation of a Q&A with new Lotte Giants manager Jerry Royster, just hours after he landed in Korea.
They tossed him some softball questions, but it does seem as though Royster has some clue as to how the age/respect dynamic works in Asia, which could go a long way in helping him […]

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A couple months ago I did a post about Baseball Haiku as heard on the radio program Short (baseball) Stories at Symphony Space, linked to on Ron Kaplan’s Baseball Bookshelf.
One of the other segments was a reading from The Glory of Their Times, a book by Lawrence S. Ritter, published in 1966. Inspired by both […]

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Yabuta Yasuhiko became the most recent Japanese free agent signing with a major league team, inking  a long rumored two-year deal with the Kansas City Royals.

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As a lifelong Twins fan, nothing can be more revolting than listening to impetuous snot daddy’s little angel Hank Steinbrenner trying to restrain himself from salivating in the media over adding Johan Santana to the Yankees Roster. Steinbrenner, quickly established himself as the deplorable dweeb/coaches son we love to hate in a New York Post […]

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Well, if you’ve ever wanted to see a bunch of Singaporean bureaucrats, working at a place called something like the Media Development Authority, rapping and singing in their own promotional music video, then look no further.
Seriously, this must be seen to be believed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLw28UVWEU

I can imagine this fitting in well in an update of Kafka’s The […]

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From MLB Traderumors.com:
A report has surfaced in today’s Los Angeles Times that says that the Dodgers, just as the Mariners did, sent a contingent to Japan to meet with Hiroki Kuroda. The contingent (the only word the baseball media seems to use for these things) included none other than closer Takashi Saito, whose agent Steve Hilliard […]

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If the first month of the season is any indication it’s going to be a lot of fun to follow Yi Jianlian and the Milwaukee Bucks this year. Prior todays loss to Philadelphia the team was riding a 5-game win streak and was tied with Detroit for first place in the Central Division.�
Yi has been […]

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The Olympic Qualifiers are upon us and official play started yesterday with the start of a Group B play-in round-robin featuring Pakistan, Hong Kong, Thailand and the Philippines. The winner of the group will get the privilege of being slaughtered by Taiwan, South Korea and Japan in the Group A games that start Dec. 1. […]

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Relax. Things Could Be Worse.

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I’ve always loved stat projections. Maybe it’s the kid in me, the summers pouring over APBA cards in my childhood bedroom. Nary a friend in sight. Alone. Just me, my?dice and my numbers. The door shut. FM cassette player radio on. So alone.
But I digress. Point is, nowadays I get excited when I see the […]

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My friend Christen owns this button compnay Busy Beaver. They make buttons, as in badges. One inch buttons. Not coat or shirt buttons. Fashion buttons. Mostly for bands. She’s been at it nearly 10 years.
I asked if she’d send me a recent and relevant design to post on East Windup Chronicle.
Here tis:

Wow, Damo Suzuki! What […]

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Former Milwaukee Brewers manager Jerry Royster was hired yesterday (article in Korean) as the new manager of the Lotte Giants. He will be the first foreign professional baseball manager in Korea.
Royster spent 15 years in the major leagues, mostly with the Dodgers and Braves. He was mostly a utility player, able to play 2B, SS, […]

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John Heyman of SI.com is reporting that Mike Piazza has been sending feelers to several teams in the NPB’s Pacific League in hopes of landing a DH gig.
If Piazza heads to Japan he?would?be the most successful MLB player to do so. Piazza, 39, had an injury filled 2007 campaign, but a fairly productive 2006 with […]

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Proving that besides being a cram-school teacher, being a left-handed pitcher who can throw above 8o miles an hour is the surest guarantee of employment out there, former Mets and Dodgers pitcher Kazuhisa Ishii signed a two-year, 800 Million yen deal with the Pacific League’s Seibu Lions, leaving the Yakult swallows.
Ishii stated his goal was […]

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Before I start in on this I should mention today I was�awakened�at 4:30 a.m. by my neighbor who was drunk and�was yelling at his�dog until the�dork finally passed out at five. Then, I had to be at the meat plant by 6:30 a.m.�The wit is a tad acerbic today. I apologize.
But this headline gave me […]

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The headline is part of a banner running across the top of the page along with a photo of Park wearing his national team uniform, angrily looking at the camera and shouting…almost as if to say “f-you!”�
Now, I’m all for letting people save a little face, but this is over the top. Park and his […]

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Bandar Seri Begawan Sunrise

In the biggest signing by a Japanese team�thus far the Hanshin Tigers agreed to terms with free agent�slugger Takahiro Arai
Yu Darvish and the Japanese national team easily beat Australia in an Olympic Qualifying tuneup
Add a couple more games�to those qualifyers too
Have to keep following this Yi is better than Yao idea
And on […]

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Interesting opinion piece in the Korea Times about how the current free agency rules prohibit any player movement in the offseason due to what the writer believes are excessive compensation rules.

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