That’s Japanese for baseball.
“This will some day be just absolutely huge.” Bud Selig.
In Seoul, thousands skipped work and school to watch a large-screen broadcast of the game at Jamsil Baseball Stadium, tossing confetti, waving banners bearing the names of their favorite players and chanting through the championship.
Special issues of newspapers (remember those) were printed in Japan, everyone was glued to their cellphones watching the game.
Jake Peavy says it was a bad time to schedule the games,
“I just wish it were played after the season, the same time as the Japan trip I made in 2004. When we took our best players to Japan, we beat them pretty handily. It’d be different if we played Japan with our players in season form.”
“American players were not up to speed. The Latin players were coming out of winter ball. Japan and Korean had been working out. It’s a little different timing for American players. And I understand why some of them felt it was too early.”
Derek Jeter says, for the US to compete, “I don’t know how it could happen, but it would be an ideal situation to play every day.”
Maybe it’s not just the conditioning,
“Their style is different,” Jimmy Rollins said. “A lot of things they do, you know, we will get criticized for if we did them back home during the regular season. But that’s the way they play. They don’t worry about the big things. They do things right. And if there is anything that we can take away from what we’ve seen is to take advantage of another team’s mistakes.”
Jeter marveled at the speed with which the Japanese hitters raced down the line after they put the ball in play. “They don’t strike out,” he said.
“Everybody puts the ball in play. They all run. The left-handers are halfway down the line when they put the ball in play. If I could do it or teach it, I would.”
Fidel Castro spotted the flaw in the Cuban’s game
“Nowadays we have enough young pitchers and batters with magnificent sports qualities. In a nutshell, we have to revolutionize the methods for the preparation and development of our athletes, …. ”
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Bud Selig thinks the owners need to let their best players play,
“We have to find ways to pick up the intensity for the United States,” he said. “We’ve got to find a way to get our best players and make sure they’re on the field.
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Bill Rhoden from the NY Times says, you get what you pay for,
It was as if the United States was being reintroduced to a game it invented. The American game, for better or for worse, has moved to lavish new stadiums and supports lucrative player contracts. It is built on power and entertainment — a deadly combination, we’ve discovered, in an era of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Which could turn out to be a dead end, Link just look at the charts, don’t read the commentary.