I like where Richard Griffin of the Toronto Star starts out in this article, but he ends up driving off the road and into the same pile of blue jay dung that this guy ended up in. He’s questioning the Red Sox signing of Junichi Tazawa, suggesting the team is just looking to sign every [...]

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Sapporo beer is the brewer. But don’t look for them to grow potatoes for vodka anytime soon says the spoilsport Russian astronaut.
The beverage, brewed from barley cultivated in the International Space Station in 2006, has splashed down courtesy of the Russian Academy of Science, a Japanese university and beer giant Sapporo.
But the 100 liters of [...]

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I think by this time a lot of people have heard about Park Sang Hak, the North Korean defector leading the group that launches balloons filled with pro-democracy leaflets headed for North Korea. The South Korean media reports on this, but not in depth (as far as I’ve seen) and not usually with footage. I’ll [...]

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Thanks to David Chalk who passed this over to me. It comes from a 1981 Sporting News Baseball Yearbook, a preview issue of sorts. The writer asks several people what they think baseball will be like twenty years later…in the year 2000. Some of the most amazing quotes involve money, which the writer, I think as [...]

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In one of today’s tournament games, a starting pitcher threw over 160 pitches. In a single game.
Guess what? He’s probably going to start the team’s next game as well.
Now, as a guest in someone else’s house here I’ve learned to try to reserve judgement about certain ways the game is played that might [...]

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Pardon the slowdown in posts but I’m currently in the midst of scouting this years 2008 Wood Bat Tourney in central and Southern Taiwan. Can’t discuss much about the actual game highlights, but one thing I can report on was a visit from Bob Abreu, who attended this year’s opening ceremony. After [...]

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