No, Don Wakamatsu doesn’t speak Japanese and he mostly grew up in Hayward, California. I’m not sure the Mariners deserve to be called mavericks for hiring him, but, as steps go, this is a pretty nice one. Wakamatsu is expected to be named manager of the Seattle Mariners tomorrow.
Wakamatsu was most recently the A’s bench coach. [...]
Kind of Asian Guy Becomes First Asian MLB Manager
November 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments
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We’re Back Again
November 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Sorry for the outage. I have no quips, no comments and nothing all that interesting to say except thank you to Patrick from NBP Tracker, who in taking a look realized I’d deleted some extra code in trying to get rid of those dumb A symbols. Also thanks to Westbay-san who was kind enough to work with [...]
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