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I really think the Korean media should stop taking pictures of players and managers just as they walk off the airplane. Here’s Jerry Royster, new manager of the Lotte Giants, looking a little weary as he’s greeted by hordes of reporters at Inchon International Airport. Good they flew him to Inchon because if he’d flown […]

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I liked this article, Bad Time to Acquire a Juicer, by Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times on a few different levels. Here’s Roberts, who’s on the verge of being traded to the Cubs, getting absolutely hammered by one of Chicago’s top baseball columnists before he even gets to town. Yow.
Of course, getting a hold […]

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By Simon Currie
Japanese ballparks are often accused of being tiny bandboxes where routine outfield fly balls slapped by weak hitters turn into homeruns. Is this actually true, or is this just an outdated myth, like the one that says Tokyo and Japan are expensive. By the way it’s not, especially now with the weak yen, tax inclusive […]

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Heading back to the setting of one of our more controversial pieces, here’s a video put together by a Japunditcorrespondent, taken outside the Gaspanic nightclub, which our own Jackson Broder once cautiously described as ”a frat party for 20 something foreigners looking to bang Japanese girls.”
Good times…

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

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