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David Foreman-san (dforeman at washjeff edu) writes:


Below is a link to a story that discusses Japanese baseball and how it is affected by the "defection" of stars. It is an audio file that originally aired on NPR's Morning Edition. Scroll to the bottom of the page for the story.


NPR 2001.06.15 archive

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[ Author: westbaystars | Posted: Jun 20, 2001 4:03 AM | YBS Fan ]

I found that I disagreed with some of the reporter's history of the game.  It seems like some myths (playing for few runs to not disrupt "wa") never die.  And anyone who doesn't think that managers argue so as not to make the umpire "lose face" hasn't seen Hoshino-kantoku in action.  Granted, a lot of the managers are kinder, gentler men, and kind of laugh as they "discuss" how blanently obvious a call was, but Hoshino, Higashio, and a couple of others will down right publicly humiliate some of the umps.


Overall, though, while the report is still talking doom and gloom, the reporter did try to end on a happy note.  It would be nice to see the "World Series" live up to its name one day.

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