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Just classic stuff here. In no way safe for work, but who feckin’ cares. Vintage footage of Earl Weaver losing it on an umpire, who quite frankly gets the better of him. Nice cameo appearance by Eddie Murray as well. (NSFW)
Earl: “What are you doing here now?”
Ump: “Why don’t you call [...]

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I recently submitted an entry into a fun project called the Rogue’s Baseball Index, the brainchild of the blog Pitchers and Poets, of whom longtime EWC friend and occasional illustrator Ted is a part of.
In short the Index, in the words of the creators, is “a growing dictionary of the baseball terms that they didn’t [...]

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Got a chuckle out of this:
Controversial Sabermetrician Posits That There Is No Such Thing As Baseball
NEW YORK—Saying that there are no pitchers, fielders, or batters, only numbers and statistics, radical sabermetrician Kyle Osterman theorized Wednesday that there is no such thing as baseball.
I’ve never linked to an Onion blurb before, so I’m not quite sure [...]

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Jose Canseco’s Mixed Mixed Martial Arts debut in Yokohama lasted all of 1:17 as he was KO’d by South Korea’s 7′2 Choi Hong-man in what Japan Times reporter Kaz Nagatsuka described as a disgrace to professional sports.
From the Japan Times:
In this brutal, no-mercy sport, it’s not unusual when a fight ends a moment after the [...]

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The CPBL’s La New Bears released switch-hitting leadoff man Tim Raines Jr. in late May after just 15 games.
Apparently the Bears had had enough of Raines Jr.’s ideal leadoff production, and abruptly showed him the door. He was hitting .327 with a .367 on-base percentage and 11 steals in only 55 at bats, caught [...]

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Some real ugliness here as MLB Network broadcaster Matt Vasgersian yucks it up at the expense of Brad Hawpe, who had to be helped from the field after getting hit in the head by San Diego catcher Nick Hundley’s throw to second base in yesterday’s game.

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Hopefully you’ve been able to catch some of the controversy surrounding some comments Dustin Pedroia made about his hometown, Woodland, California. Having gone to school at UC Davis, I’m somewhat familiar with Woodland, which is just 10-15 minutes north. I had a summer job there, Valley Record Distributors a CD and video distribution center. I didn’t [...]

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(3 points): Fill in the blank: A Rod looks quite ___________ in this photo.

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Aaron Twittered this one today, but any blog post as chock full of comically off-base attempts at cultural anthropology as this Thursday’s post from the Marmot’s Hole blog deserves some front and center treatment as far as I’m concerned.
The piece–presumably written by one of those ‘gone native’ white guy types– –labels Taiwanese netizens “colonial toadies [...]

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A recent Fu Jen University public opinion poll has concluded that over 2.2 million Taiwanese “have never fallen in love or had a relationship with a member of the opposite sex”.
Yen Han-wen, a sex education professor at National Normal University, attributed the large number of bachelors and spinsters in Taiwan mainly to the lack of [...]

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Taiwanese Justice Minister Wang Ching-feng has been captured in this video at a Taichung prison, mocking inmates and suggesting that they could “hug their way out of jail” and be eligible for parole by embracing State Prosecutor General Chen Tsung-ming. Hug the SPG, get parole. No hug, no parole. Isn’t that funny? [...]

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What a bummer. It’s not that Kang Ho-dong gets me seething at the TV like some Korean personalities do, but it sometimes does bother me how ubiquitous certain entertainers are once they’ve become popular. You can find Kang pretty much doing exactly what he’s doing in the photo above on three or four Korean TV [...]

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Kind of funny and kind of cruel practical joke detailed by Baseball America’s Non-Prospect Diary, written by Dirk Hayhurst. The setup is that a group of players decide to act as a Japanese team looking to sign a minor leaguer to a lucrative (by minor league standards) deal.
One of the fine young men on my [...]

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Pretty much totally unrelated to anything going on here, but a few weeks ago I listened to an Economist obituary about Studs Terkel. I’ve heard the name over the years, and I had some idea that he did interviews, but I never really knew much about him.
The Economist obit calls him “recorder of America’s voices,” [...]

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Beane as quoted by reporters following the announcement that the A’s would open 2008 in Japan against the Red Sox.
“The book (Moneyball) is huge over there, I guess, so I’m like a David Hasselhoff type or something.”

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