Hey is the ink dry on Kuroda’s contract? Good.  Let’s fire it up for 2009.
It almost seems crass. I’m being slightly sarcastic anyway, but I’ve gotten a couple emails requesting  such information, and this past week produced a couple tidbits I wanted to mention.

It’s likely that one year from this very day we’ll be clamoring [...]

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You wouldn’t think Beijing would play host to a host  of wild animals. But the city apparently has  all kinds of  snakes, leopards, hog badgers, weasels in the vacinity, and even a murder of crows that roost at night in the trees on the Dongdan section of Chang An Street.
Danwei has a great and [...]

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I enjoyed this piece  by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti the other day and wanted to give it a special write up. First off, I’m not a Cub or White Sox fan, but I like Chicago as a city and I love how the rivalry comes to a head in the two major newspapers. I [...]

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Update 2:  So after a couple days  of trying to pretend otherwise, the Dodgers have announced the signing of Kuroda. It gives them a roatation something like: Brad Penny, Derek Lowe, Kuroda, Jason Schmidt and Chad Billingsley. If Schmidt is healthy that’s got to be the deepest and best rotation in baseball.
Update 1: Here’s something [...]

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