Every baseball season I have a mental list of things I’d like to see happen. Naturally, being a Reds fan the team’s success is at the top of my list. Since that has only happened during in my lifestory I have to find other things to root for. Sadly, these concern my fantasy baseball […]

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When I first came to Korea I met a guy named Kyeong-ho. He told me two stories I will never forget.
The first involved his military service. For six months he had to destroy hundreds of pigs every day in a government effort to control an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in South Korea. He […]

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Just for fun and before you read the answer below, guess how much the Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox players will each receive from Major League Baseball for their season-opening series in Japan this March?
I don’t spend much time thinking about player salaries and the financial aspects of the game, but for some reason […]

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Having just flown over the good ol’ Sea of Okhotsk two days ago I couldn’t help but be curious about these amazing cloud formations (called cloud streets) on Pink Tentacle.
This photograph (above), taken June 18 from a Japan Coast Guard aircraft off the northeastern coast of Hokkaido, shows a bird’s-eye view of cloud streets over […]

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