The Korean broadcast of the Mets/Marlins was on in one room and the Yankees/Jays on MLB.com in the other. I walked back and forth, cleaned a little house and drank some coffee. Now that’s a morning.
I was already kicking around ideas in my head for a snide Josh Hamilton comment in this here space. Then [...]

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Glad to report after scanning East Windup Chronicle through the Blog-Cuss-O-Meter that the site is absent (lacking?) in swear content.
Truth be known, I once wrote a swear word in the title of a KBO-related post. Westbay-san of Japanesebaseball.com always links my Korean Baseball related posts at his site, but I noticed he didn’t link to [...]

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This comes from Japan Probe, and is a story about a shot-put manufacturer in Japan who is boycotting the Olympics. Tibet? A plea for human rights? Faulty products made in China? No, inapropriate behavior  following Japan’s 2004 Asian Cup cup victory over the Chinese team.
The footage begins with pro-boycott/pro-Tibet protest held in Washington, DC. Then, [...]

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The Economist has a small item about the opening of MLB in Japan and its effect on Japanese baseball. Nothing earthshaking here, and unfortunately no stance or remedies are given, but I’m always curious to hear  The Economist’s view on the world.
But the sport continues to struggle. NPB’s disappointing results are largely due to poor [...]

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As Yahoo! svengali Andy Behrens recently detailed  in his latest Roto Arcade column, this year’s annual Kingman league draft turned (devolved?) into a five day long bloodbath, at times resembling a virtual reality show of 30-40 year old journalists and fantasy baseball geeks with laptops trapped in the  Mock Draft Central  website [...]

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