Funny photo of a Korean jewelry store taken from the Korea-based blog Roboseyo. I’d add something, but I like what he writes. Plus he happens to namecheck a few artists I like:
A Jewelry shop in Jongno 3 ga. Jewsrock.org (a site dedicated to jews in rock music, including their patron saints, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen) ought to know one […]

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Simon’s got a great post up over at his blog outlining some NPB metrics. It’s a little hard to cut and paste the entire thing, so I’m just going to include the FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching) numbers here.

FIP
ERA
W
L
Pitcher
Team

1.61
2.85
4
3
Sugiuchi
Hawks

2.02
2.05
7
2
Iwakuma
Eagles

2.41
2.27
6
4
Lewis
Carp

2.76
1.52
5
1
Darvish
Fighters

2.82
3.1
5
3
Tanaka
Eagles

2.93
3.56
2
3
Utsumi
Giants

2.97
2.9
4
4
Shimizu
Marines

2.99
2.07
3
2
Naruse
Marines

3.07
1.68
5
1
Iwata
Tigers

3.07
1.75
5
0
Hoashi
Lions

3.09
1.99
2
5
Miura
BayStars

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I’m going to follow last night’s Hite-fueled rant about football with a clip from this week’s Economist, which talks about the fact that while the Premier League has clearly established itself as…well, what it’s name indicates — the premier football league — it’s also a very international league.
The article notes that in the recent Champions […]

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