I think anyone who’s read EWC for any length of time knows we’re usually good for a post or two per day most of the time. However, that just hasn’t been the case during the past 3 or 4 months. The readership has declined somewhat, and I think the quality has suffered at times, but [...]

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[Note: For readers with 'a life' who don't enjoy reading about roto baseball or me beating Aaron in fantasy sports, you can stop reading here].
It’s been a downright miserable year for the Stinky Tofu, my team in the EWC-sponsored Champions Rotisserie Baseball League.  Nothing has gone right. I’m in 10th place, in danger of being relegated.  Reyes [...]

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Major League Trade Rumors brings word of two amateur signings out of Korea.
The Chicago Cubs have continued their Atilla the Hun-like march across the Asian continent, this time signing centerfielder Na Kyung-min to a minor league deal with a bonus reported around 725,000. Na has been called “the fastest player in Korean high school baseball” [...]

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I kind of missed the boat on Kogi, the Korean taco truck that’s now acquired a fair bit of fame and press. You know, the stuggling chefs from L.A. that have ridden Twitter and hipster-word-of-mouth goodness into big ups in the New York Times, Newsweek, KCRW, and more.
Well, I tell you, I’m NOT missing out [...]

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I’d really like to visit Sapporo. Not so much for basebally reasons, but largely because I became drawn to the place after I saw a film called The Rebirth at the Pusan Film Festival a couple years ago.
That was a dreary film about a guy who moves into the middle of nowhere and basically goes [...]

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S.H.E., Taiwan’s most popular singing group and purveyors of the the world’s most unlistenable music, arrived safely in the Taoyuan airport in Taiwan after being detained for hours in Beijing due to a bomb threat. The plane had already begun its runway approach when it was called back to the terminal for inspection.
The group’s luggage [...]

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What could be more fortuitous than no one dying in a plane that crashes into the freezing Hudson river? Why, your government making it rain!  Today all Taiwanese citizens and their spouses will receive 3600 NTD in ’shopping vouchers‘ (one hundred bucks and change) as a part of a $500 billion NTD government [...]

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