One of the great things about living in Korea is that each year, about a month before the baseball season starts, one of the major networks starts airing replays of “classic” games from the year previous. The games are shown in condensed form with no commercials. The announcers are Korean, though that’s often a blessing.
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You are lounging in a warm plunge pool in the garden of a private villa while listening to “The Goldberg Variations.” Your robe and slippers are on the floor where you dropped them, right near the giant, pillow-mounded platform bed. You are thinking about having a brie omelet for breakfast, then a spa foot massage […]

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Good piece I’d meant to post a day or two ago, courtesy of my friend Eric. It’s about the recent uptick in violence within the world of Sumo wrestling. Quite a bit of this makes it into the Korean media, but this story in the Washington Post summarizes what’s been happening and draws the conclusion that […]

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This is a followup to yesterdays write up/links. First off here’s a quick quote by David Wright, as printed in a Daily News Q&A, about the increasing popularity of baseball statistics:
6. How do you feel about the continued growth in popularity of statistics, especially non-traditional ones?
DW: I don’t even know what half the stuff is, but […]

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Update: Found someone. Thanks to everyone who emailed.  
Two people in our ginormous 20-team Yahoo! fantasy league have jumped ship due to work and school obligations. We filled one spot from a waiting list, but we have one additional opening. 
We’re drafting this weekend starting at 10 p.m. EST Saturday (11 a.m. Sunday in Korea/Japan). The league includes […]

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I promise I won’t link to everything I write for MLB Trade Rumors, but this is more of an article than a post and it concerns Pirates first baseman turned outfielder Steve Pearce, a major league ready hitter who is currently blocked and likely to be sent back to the minors. Hence its inclusion in the Blocked Prospects […]

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Pikachu (Pokemon) saves the day again…

(Via: Japundit)

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