Japanese Baseball

Between my trip last week to japan and the fact that the cable in my HK apartment finally gets Japanese TV signals consistantly for the first time ever, i have been catching up on my japanese baseball coverage... but ironically most everything is about japanese baseball in the US!

I turned on HK ESPN to find them showing the Mariners vs the Yankees game from last friday... it was a japanese pitcher, a japanese hitter or two and a japanese outfielder! (Igawa, Ichiro/Johjima and Matsue, respectively). Unfortunately for Igawa, he's not doing as well as Daisuke or Okajima in Boston...

interesting stuff... i wonder if the japanese managers are resentful that their best talent is going to the US? Probably not considering the teams get a big fat check from the US teams to sign away their players. :-P

Classic Ichiro picture by Drake from the Mariners Game we went to last year...