Yoo Jee-ho at the JoongAng Daily has an article about the new time-saving rule for the Olympics. His reaction is a tempered one and he urges fans to “view the change as a new challenge.”
However that wasn’t the reaction of Sun Dong-yol, formerly a pitching coach of the Korean national team.
“We might as well decide [...]

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I’ve never been inclined to believe that I have any sort of special powers, but there’s no doubting the fact that the lives of several of the players I mentioned in my That Minor League Game I Went to… post have had their lives severely altered within a one week span. Divine? Probably not. Coincience? [...]

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I’m a couple weeks late on this, but it’s worth a note. Anyone have a Benihana experience they’d like to share?
Rocky Aoki, who founded the theatrical Benihana chain of steakhouses, where Japanese chefs with flashing knives double as performers, died Thursday night in Manhattan. He was 69.
The cause was pneumonia, said Nancy Bauer, a [...]

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I don’t have a big beef with Ned Colletti himself. I’m not necessarily a hater of Joe Torre  either. I just thought Frank McCourt’s ousting of Paul DePodesta terrible, as was the shaft he (they) gave Grady Little last offseason. Ever heard of Karma Mr.  McCourt?
The Dodgers picked up Casey Blake from the Indians, without [...]

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