Interesting news bit posted by the new Japanese baseball blog NPB Tracker, reporting that the Hanshin Tigers are scouting Lotte’s Lee Dae-ho. This despite the fact that Lee doesn’t fulfill his service requirement for another three years.
I was thinking about the idea — in my mind Lee is the best pure hitter in Korea. [...]

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I doubt too many people heard about this, but prior to his major league debut last Saturday at Yankee Stadium, Reds pitcher Daryl Thompson, along with fellow rookie Jay Bruce, got on the No. 4 subway line headed for the Bronx. Except, they got on the platform headed to Brooklyn.
When I lived in Brooklyn I [...]

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I like subject of this article — the fact that Dodgers GM Ned Colletti isn’t doing a very good job, but this a very weird column by the LA Times T.J. Simers. Seems like a prime target for a FJMing…I’ll try to avoid doing it in that style, but it’s hard not to.
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Danwei has a post  about Ye Shumeng, a Chinese born graphic designer now living in Helsinki, who has produced a book of photography about Warrior Sneakers — an iconic Chinese-designed sneaker from the 1970s.
From Book of Warriors:
Three decades later, these sneakers are still well known among the Chinese people but they are no longer objects [...]

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