May as well start a WBC 2009 category with this announcement:
Mexico City, San Juan, Tokyo and Toronto were selected Monday to host first-round games during the second World Baseball Classic in 2009.
The 16-nation tournament will switch from a round-robin to a double-elimination format during the first two rounds. Japan won the initial WBC in 2006, […]

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This is the first I’ve ever heard of this, but here’s an interesting tidbit from a Q&A with Keith Law that concerns the Toronto Blue Jays drafting of Ricky Romero instead of Troy Tulowitzki in the 2005 amateur baseball draft. Law was working in the Blue Jays’ front office at the time, and had, according […]

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In Japan the magic of Koshien has begun. Can I say that any Boston-based reporter worth their salt made the detour while in town? The Boston Herald did and in addition to a short essay on the scene the paper put up a nice accompanying photo essay that you’ll find to the right of the […]

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A Taiwanese son recently hired a stripper to preform a the funeral of his 103-year-old father. According to reports the father was a bit of a strip club afficianado. 

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I probably shouldn’t get too far into the various reasons I like this.

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

From Pink Tentacle

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