Or so says Bronx Banter in a well-written first-person account of going to the new Yankee Stadium for the first time. I don’t think about it much and I’ve never written it here, but for a brief time I worked right next to Yankee Stadium, at a relatively horrific publishing house called H.W. Wilson.
Even though [...]

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I know it’s baseball. It’s not life or death. But if you are American, and you would just as soon see the American team put a product on the field that’s worth your time, I have to ask you…
Are you satisfied?
If you don’t like Team USA you are most definitely satisfied. The team is now [...]

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Funny item from the Tokyo Reporter, entitled Devious women spring honey traps at spring training (really it’s winter camp) about women in Okinawa luring pro baseball players into their lairs in hopes of getting them to pay hush money to avoid a scandal in the sports dailies. 
The tabloid applies the term “camp followers” to predatory women who [...]

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Nothing says Feb. 16, 2009 like Kim Jong-il’s 68th birthday and EWC’s one-and-a-half year anniversary. Unfortunately, things haven’t always been as cheery and fun loving around here as one might think.
It’s a little strange in retrospect, but when we first started EWC Jackson used to refer to the site as “a set,” to himself as [...]

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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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I wasn’t aware of this until I saw the Korea Times story linked on Baseball Think Factory, but there was some controversy at the Doosan/Lotte game in Busan Friday night. I was in Incheon at the SK/Woori game and didn’t see anything but a single highlight of the game ending home run on the news.
Apparently [...]

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Sorry, but this sounds ridiculous.
Cameron Hughes is his team’s biggest fan. Depending on his mood, he might pull off one of the multiple team jerseys he wears and spin it wildly in the air, scream at the top of his lungs, and exhort fellow supporters to do the same. Or he might pull an old [...]

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If you live in Korea you can watch tongiht’s  KBS follow-up to last month’s program exposing the disturbing tendency of women’s basketball coaches raping their players. If you don’t live in Korea you can just sit back and wretch while you read this.
From a Korea Beat translationof a Sports Chosun article:

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I’m still in California, so I’m not making my regular checks of Korea-based sites, which is why I’m way behind on this one. But there’s no way I can miss the chance to pass this along.
This is the final paragraph of a Korea Beat translation of a Joongang Ilbo story concerning the tourism surrounding the [...]

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This is one of those reports, kind of like the recent series of articles about the Washington Huskies football team that makes me want to vomit. The Korean sports world is on fire as of late due to a recent news program reporting that the sexual abuse and harassment of female competitors by their male [...]

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PT from an article in Nikkan Sports:
A 16-year-old male gamer infatuated with the gothic dress worn by the fictional princess in an online role-playing game has been arrested for hacking into the game company’s servers and scamming a boatload of virtual money.
The game, called Mabinogi, is inspired by Celtic mythology, of South Korean orgin, but [...]

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