By Simon Currie
The Central League still has a few rain out games to remake that will determine first place, and the huge one game advantage and home field advantage (all games at home), so I’ll leave the CL until next week.
The Pacific League has completed its regular season schedule and the first round of the [...]

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Interesting roundup courtesy of What Japan Thinks, of Japanese beer commercials. As opposed to commercials in the UK or US Japanese beer  ads are free to focus on the act of drinking the beer itself. The post has a host of then and now  beer commercials via YouTube along with some statistics from an Internet [...]

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Well, it seemed like a good storyline, a foreign manager in his first season in Korea, taking a perennial dog into the playoffs for the first time in eight years, a rag tag bunch of kids who didn’t even know which way to run around the bases when the season started.
Ok, I made that [...]

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Hilarious Chindogu video below.
What is Chindogu? I didn’t know either, but I sure like this.
Wikipedia:
Chindōgu (珍道具?) is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem. However, Chindōgu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions, [...]

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