Word: dices
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...into Lil’ Wayne’s hotel room, where he stands looking at himself in the mirror and making sure he’s ready for a night on the town. Once his hair looks just right and he’s collected a good variety of dice-shaped lollipops, Wayne moves on to the lobby, where he’s congratulated by Static Major on his fine choice of accessories. They then board some sort of Mack Truck limousine, on which they are met by several fine women and a relentless strobe light. Again, the two friends...
...want to do anything to offend our hosts. We just want to solidify our base in Japan with fan clubs and small promotions." But the Bosox and A's visit was anything but small. It featured appearances by two of Japan's chief exports: Boston starter Daisuke ("Dice-K") Matsuzaka and his teammate, reliever Hideki Okajima. Furthermore, MLB is in the middle of a six-year $275 million TV contract with Japan's largest advertising firm, Dentsu. Japan's monolithic broadcaster NHK meanwhile has just has announced plans to continue its heavy coverage of American baseball by airing some...
...also managed to hold on to a core fan base (though some would argue that it is the core fans who have stuck by the NPB). In 2007, the Japan Series drew over twice the nationwide TV audience of the World Series telecast in Japan (despite Dice-K's presence in Game 3). Ratings for NPB games in the evening are generally higher than MLB games in the a.m. One of the few exceptions was the first time Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners and Matsuzaka squared off in an MLB game last April, a contest telecast from...
...Japanese athlete, going to the MLB, once regarded as a traitorous act, has become the thing to do, thanks to the exploits of Ichiro, Matsui and Dice-K. Observers estimate that conservatively there are at least three or four dozen more players good enough to make the jump. And most of them are ready to go. They are attracted to the higher pay and prestige of the major leagues and eager to be free of the rigid Japanese style discipline and the excessive practice of the Japanese system. As expatriate American pitcher Jeremy Powell, who plays for the Softbank Hawks...
...parent. He once reduced Eliot to tears during a game of Monopoly. Bernard, a real estate developer, had ordered his son - at the time a boy of 7 or 8 - to sell him a piece of property; Eliot then couldn't afford the rent when a roll of the dice landed him on that property. "He didn't realize his own rights," Bernard told Masters years later, adding that he had taught his son a lesson: "Never defer to authority...