I’m really looking forward to the Olympic Games this summer, and when I say Olympic Games I mean the baseball and absolutely nothing else except maybe five or 10 minutes of the opening ceremonies.
The first round matchups were announced yesterday and right off the top are a couple doozys. Japan, who I’d say would have […]

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What’s better than a woman riding a giant shrimp to advertise a new item at the Korean McDonalds?

Korea’s most beautiful entertainer advertising a waterpark.

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Check out this trailer from The Good, the Bad, and the Weirda movie by Korean director Kim Ji-woon that’s going to be one of the big blockbusters in Korea this summer.
It’s the story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. A spaghetti western […]

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When I was recently interviewed for a piece in the JoongAng Daily one of the questions was to talk about the most amazing baseball moment that I’d witnessed in person. Seems like an obvious question any baseball fan might ask themselves at any point in time, but I hadn’t. If you’re like me you even […]

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16 Years, 427 Home Runs, .308 lifetime average.  12-time All-Star– Not bad for a 62nd round draft pick.
Piazza, the son of a multi-millionaire, is rumored to have taken batting lessons from Ted Williams in his backyard as a youngster and was drafted by Tommy Lasorda and the Dodgers as a personal favor.  He now retires, […]

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