As most anyone who follows Korean baseball will tell you there’s nothing like a Lotte Giants baseball game in Busan. If you’ve never been, you’re missing out on a crucial Korean cultural experience. With that in mind, here’s an invitation to the first annual ê³—ë‚ , which in Korean is a kind of periodic friend meeting.
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Yeah, I had no idea either.
Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon is best known to New Yorkers as the player who parted ways with the team’s dreaded rival the Boston Red Sox to sign with the Bronx Bombers in 2005. While his Japanese and Taiwanese teammates Hideki Matsui and Chien Ming Wang garner all the attention from [...]

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The title of an opinion piece on East Windup Chronicle? Nope. Crazy talk from a drunk Japanese-American in New York City? No. Kim Jong Il delivering an address via the KNCA? Think again. This is Jim Caple from ESPN, who recently wrote that Dice-K 2.0 article, writing an editorial advocating MLB expansion into Asia. He [...]

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In case you missed it last night here’s Keiichi Yabu coming into a game and getting Kevin Kouzmanoff to ground into a rare 5-4-3 triple play. It was the first triple play turned in the eight-year history of the Giants’ waterfront ballpark and just the second in a Giants home game since 1980, when the [...]

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