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In sports, everyone is a winner-some people just win better than others. Like Japan's new all-time single-season hits leader, Matt Murton. Yes, the same Matt Murton who washed out in Chicago, Oakland and Colorado. More »
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Mere weeks after introducing the world to the original Spider-Man's home run saving grab, it happens again. Same ballpark, same teams, same pitcher on the mound. More »
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This is from last night's Yokohama BayStars/Hiroshima Carp game. Breaks like this are why the BayStars are in last place, though I think Hiroshima would take issue with any other city calling itself unlucky. More »
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Japanese nerds have invented baseball-playing robots with talent far exceeding our own Major League all-stars and they don't require Gatorade or HGH. Well, I guess that's it. We had a great ride, humanity, but our time has passed. More »
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When they're not infuriating their fans with the unlikely martyrdom of Bobby Valentine, the Chiba Lotte Marines are busy defending the world from monsters. These posters may overstate the excitement of baseball, but only by a little. [Some Japanese Site] More »
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The Boston Red Sox paid the Seibu Lions $51.1 million for the right to take Daisuke Matsuzaka off their hands. So what did they do with the money? New toilet seats for everyone! More »
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17-year-old Japanese female knuckleballer is a strikeout queen in the Kansai Independent League. [More Hardball] More »
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Of course they are. The animal rights organization has sent an impassioned letter to the Chicago Cubs, advising them not to accept a Japanese baseball team's offer of a curse-breaking Kentucky Fried Chicken statue. More »
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This handsome statue, plucked from the watery depths of a Japanese river, is being offered to the Chicago Cubs as curse-breaking material. I see no way this can fail. More »
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Workers dredging a river to construct a walkway in Osaka, Japan may have inadvertently lifted one of the most notorious curses in all of sports, the mysterious 'Curse of the Colonel.' More »
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The World Baseball Classic has begun! Too bad you were asleep and missed the whole thing. [MLB.com] More »
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The durability of major league pitchers is a fun debate to have with old baseball guys who long for the days before middle relievers and letting starters accumulate pitch counts until their tendons snapped in half. Those purists would most likely agree with the coach of Kawamato's technical high school, (that's the name of it in the AP story) who let his pitcher go 250 pitches deep and endure a 66-0 drubbing over two innings until he finally asked for mercy: More »
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Here is Hichori Morimoto of the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters accepting his Japanese Pacific League Golden Glove award. (Umm... back row, second from the left.) Just a word from the wise, Morimoto: Maybe stick to the performance art stilts and Martian or Conehead costumes. They're much less racisty, you know? More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=334482&view=rss&microfeed=true Via SimonOnSports comes this odd video from a Japanese baseball game. Odd? Japanese? You don't say! Now, I've watched this thing about nine times and what I think happens is that the batter is called out on an appeal to first, but because the ball bounced and the catcher never tagged him, the runner is awarded the four bases safely for a "strikeout homerun." Again, I think. I really have no fucking clue. More »
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