I’m not all that surprised that Shanghai had two Taco Bell franchises, and I’m not surprised they closed. However, the fact that it looked like this is surprising:

Not your Daddy’s Taco Bell is it? Actually, the franchises were known as Taco Bell Grande and were attempting to be an upgraded version of the American, um, classic. […]

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It’s getting to be that time of year when teams are scraping the bottom of the barrel — looking for that last player that might fill out the bench, be that backend of the rotation innings eater, or in the case of the San Francisco Giants, be the guy who starts at third and bats cleanup.
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This is a comment from Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti about the controversy kicked up by the new Fukudome ad. Basically Mariotti both condems the both the ad and the Cubs, but then at the end tells everyone to relax.

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I dug up a few funny bits about Joe Torre and Dave Winfield’s visit to China yesterday. This sort of baseball diplomacy is always interesting to me. I can imagine these guys getting a crash course in Chinese culture somewhere over the Pacific. While this sort of event comes off as being much ado about […]

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It’s springtime in Korea, not just because of the Hitler bars, but because the KBO’s spring training is in full force. The teams themselves are actually not in Korea, but have been dispatched to more tropical locales such as Guam and Okinawa. Due to a flu I’ve left the house for 10 minutes in […]

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One thing I’ve always appreciated about Philadelphia’s Bardo Pond is its utter lack of pretension. BP plays guitar music that people like to accentuate with all sorts of descriptions — noise, space rock, acid rock, post-rock, experimental — but this is guitar rock in the truest sense. This is more like Pink Floyd or Spacemen […]

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