Last night I sat down in front of the TV with my parent’s Macbook and watched the Marlins/Giants game. While I was doing it I realized, this is probably what a lot of people in the states — baseball bloggers, MLB people, and fans — must do at night. Political pinwheel types must do this [...]

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Jeremy Brahm has been sending me a few other Korean baseball related tidbits he’s found here and there, one of which is a pretty nifty collection of 1980s advertisements featuring KBO players. The above clip is for Bear, which was (is?) an over-the-counter medicine meant to aid digestion. The player is Yoon Dong-kyun, who played for [...]

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Sometimes its funny to read what people outside baseball think about baseball. Well, no it’s not. But how about if I presented you an article about Chien-Ming Wang written by someone who knows absolutely nothing about baseball, nothing about Taiwan, and very little about writing? Would that interest you? Thought so.
In America, there are hundreds [...]

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I have to say, I’m pretty suprirsed by this.
While Naked News plans its inaugural Naked News Awards for later this month, the company is quietly gearing up to roll out a South Korean version of its program.
Friends of mine in the states don’t believe me when I tell them porn is illegal in South Korea. [...]

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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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Yesterday I did an interview with Cubscast, which is a long-running podcast about Chicago’s favorite sons. We talk about what I do in Korea, East Windup Chronicle and it’s origins, my new crock pot, and the fact that I grew up a Reds fan but now pledge heart-felt allegiance to the Cubs. You can find the [...]

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In recent weeks in Taiwan there has been a big to do about a disgraced Taiwan Government Information Office (GIO) employee getting sacked over a series of bigoted blog comments written under a pseudonym directed at Taiwanese people.
Kuo Kuan-ming–an employee of a Toronto TECO office (which serves as an embassy-like service abroad for Taiwan)–was [...]

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Well, it’s a start anyway. If you’ve been keeping up with my Twitter, that is, when Wordpress isn’t crossing Jackson’s Twitter up with mine, you’ll have seen I’ve made a couple mentions of an interview I did last night in Busan with John M. Glionna of the L.A. Times.
John is new to Korea and was [...]

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I’ve read the story a couple times, but it continues to blow my mind. Tokyo Police are planning to establish a criminal case against 18 men and women on charges of allegedly posting a number of defamatory messages on a comedian’s blog.
Hopefully the Japanese police don’t read my last comment on the Hanoi Youth Baseball [...]

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Written by Mac
I am not nearly old enough to remember what things were like in the United States fifty years ago, but if the Max Mercys and flashbulbs in the movies and the colorful prose of old articles are any indication, it was very similar to the current situation in Japan.
At least one reporter and [...]

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Interesting endgame scenario by Michael Hirschorn for The Atlantic:
Virtually all the predictions about the death of old media have assumed a comfortingly long time frame for the end of print—the moment when, amid a panoply of flashing lights, press conferences, and elegiac reminiscences, the newspaper presses stop rolling and news goes entirely digital. Most of [...]

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Ostensibly this is a post about China targeting Google in a pornography crackdown. You see, China warned Google and several other portals that they must do more to block pornographic material from reaching Chinese users. Of course, blah blah blah…
Ok, evidence. Pushing Chinese officials to the edge of their patience (and chairs) are a round [...]

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My Dad recently cancelled his subscription to The Press Democrat, the newspaper I grew up reading. “Too many ads,” he told me, “It’s just gotten thinner and thinner.”
I’m mentioning this because it seems fitting I would hear this news on the same day former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti would write file his first column for AOL. [...]

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The Korea Herald English newspaper asked a few bloggers to come up with lists of their top stories in the expat community for 2008. If you’re a regular reader of EWC you’ll recognize three of the four: The Marmot’s Hole, Korea Beat, and Brian in Jeollanam-do.
All three lists are interesting in their own way. Korea Beat included the story [...]

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Something pretty big happened in the world of sports journalism yesterday as the Baseball Writers Association of America added four prominent Internet baseball writers into its fray. While the BBWAA, which decides things like the post-season awards like MVP and who gets into the Hall of Fame, comes under heavy criticism annually, the willingness to [...]

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I accidentally came upon this item, about Grammy-winning producer Mark Ronson, who produces Amy Winehouse, attending the opening of a new Korean BBQ restaurant in Hollywood called Shin. Actually, I have no idea who Ronson is, but was doing searches on Korean food.
Naturally, the opening spewed forth a number of who’s who gossip items [...]

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As regular readers of this site are probably aware, I’m a supporter of Korean baseball. I think the talent here is underrated, and I enjoy toutin’ it, scoutin’ it, and basically trying to show the world I know something they don’t. Isn’t that why people spend hours of their lives writing blogs?
But then I read [...]

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Like a lot of people I talk a big game about my dislike of the Olympics, until they start to actually happen. I haven’t been following it avidly, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t interested. The following probably says a lot more about me as a person than I’d like to admit, [...]

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If you read or listen to The Economist you’re probably aware of its Special Reports section, which are several article in-depth looks at specific subjects. This week the magazine is dissecting The Business of Sport in a massive eight article section called Fun, games and money. I know I often gush about the magazine, but [...]

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American beef is apparently flying off the shelves in South Korea — my wife’s father even has a new contract delivering the stuff all over Busan. But the story is still in the Korean news — smaller protests continue as President Lee Myung-bak makes more changes to appease the public.But most interestingly the TV program [...]

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