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Santana Trade Musings

January 31st, 2008 · No Comments

 
Now that I’m working for the Twins, it’s hard for me to offer opinions about the recent Santana for prospects deal, and most have already been said more articulately and forcefully than I can say them already.  However, when words like ’steal’ and ‘panic’ are bandied about, you get the general sense of how the deal is […]

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Tags: Baseball

Line Number 7 to Heaven?

January 31st, 2008 · No Comments

I wanted to mention the Johan Santana trade. It’s not often that a high profile trade goes down where the reaction is so unanimous.
Of course this makes want to find reasons why the Twins didn’t get fleeced, particularly when the New York media is involved, particularly when I’m seeing headlines like Santana to Mets: Their Best Trade […]

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Mysterious Company Purchases Eighth Korean Baseball Franchise

January 31st, 2008 · 5 Comments

A somewhat unknown and mysterious company called Centennial Investment has stepped up to the plate and purchased the Hyundai Unicorns, enabling the Korean Baseball Organization to maintain its current eight-team league.
Centennial is based in Seattle (though I presume is Korean owned) and trades in energy, the medical industry and consulting services. The strange part is […]

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Tags: Baseball - Korea

On the Subject of Asian Pizza

January 31st, 2008 · 5 Comments

I mentioned in the comments section of this story I’d been wanting to do a Korean pizza post for a while now. Low and behold, today I found this creation brought to us by Mr. Pizza, which is this fairly mediocre pizza chain mostly aimed at teenage girls. The kind of place with overhead lighting […]

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Tags: Food