Another day, another great MLB debut. Hideki Kuroda threw just 77 pitches, for the most part only using his fastball and slider, to pick up his first major league win as the Dodgers thumped the Padres 7-1. Here are some looks from various news sources covering his debut.
From the San Diego Union Tribune:
Kuroda, meantime, needed […]

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Nothing says cosmetics like Nazis, and nothing says Nazi like another crass case of a Korean entity using the Third Reich images (or in this case imagery) for commercial profit. The latest edition comes from the Korean makeup company Coreana, who for a new line of facial oil is using the sleek, sexy image of […]

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The timing of Opening Week, as MLB calls it, and the blooming of the cherry blossoms around here couldn’t have been more perfect.  Too bad these things only last a week. Here’s to the final weekend of both. It’s meant to rain Sunday.
I’m curious what was going through Marcus Giles mind as he stopped en route to […]

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I’ve been watching baseball for about 32 years now, and I’ve never seen anything like this: La New Bears SS Lin Zhi-Shen completely losing his mind after a close play at first in this Friday night’s 5-5 tie with the Brother Elephants, charging the first base umpire at full speed from the dugout for about […]

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