I spent the better part of the morning fighting through a hangover so I could laud SK, label them the best team in Asia, claim Kim Kwang-hyun could win 15 games in MLB, predict they’d win in five games and then…
SK went out and lost Game 1 by a 5-2 score. Sure am glad that [...]

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Senichi Hoshino said he won’t manage the Japanese team, and Japanese baseball fans breathed a sigh of relief.
Will Ichiro manage Team Japan? He’s already said he’ll play, and also urged Japan to get serious about the WBC.
This Japan Times reporter thinks  Shigetoshi Hasegawa should be the choice.
SK manager Kim Sung-keun, who is basically the spokesperson [...]

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As I periodically do, I combed through google a bit to track down some Ulsan For You-related news. Unfortunately, outside of Korean petrochemical companies cutting production due to shrinking demand, all I could find was this painting (above) of a whale the city spent money to put on a liquid storage tankowned by Taeyoung [...]

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Well, it’s been a very exciting year in Korean baseball, hasn’t it? After all, I ranked the team at #1  everytime I compiled KBO rankings this season. I said that if Kim Kwang-hyun pitched at a level anywhere close to his potential that the Wyvrens would repeat. That the team had no stars, and [...]

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