Word: dotonbori
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...from the World Series. There are other similarities: each team plays second fiddle to an imperial rival: the Tokyo Giants for the Tigers, the New York Yankees for the Red Sox. The teams' supporters celebrate key victories in quirky ways. Tigers fans like to jump into Osaka's toxic Dotonbori River, while Boston fans rejoice in the time-honored American manner of rioting and destroying property...
...ballplayer, to the New York Yankees for $125,000. They haven't won a title since, hence the Curse of the Bambino. Osaka has the Curse of Colonel Sanders. After the Tigers won their last championship in 1985, fans who resembled Tigers stars leaped one by one into the Dotonbori to resounding cheers. One problem: few Osakans were look-alikes for the team's 1.85 m, 95 kg American star Randy Bass. So they purloined a statue of portly Colonel Sanders from a nearby KFC and tossed that in the river. The Tigers have been cellar-dwellers ever since...
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