Word: fannings
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...world champ, and we know that the Red Sox, New York Yankees and New York Mets have baseball's highest payrolls. But every spring, do we have to be subjected to all the talk about these teams? (I'm sick of it, and I'm a Mets fan...
...Someone in a Wu-Tang Clan Facebook group got a Wu-Tang tattoo on his arm. What’s the craziest thing a fan has ever done? R: I seen a fan with a tattoo of Ol’ Dirty Bastard on his leg before, looked just like him, I thought that was pretty hot. FM: Is that the craziest thing, tattoos? R: It’s one of the craziest things...but I think it’s just traveling all over the world and just seeing different people from different nationalities that don’t speak...
...Asia's personable head Jim Small is aware of the sensitivity. Says Small, "We're aware of our position here. We know we are guests. We don't 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...
...biggest star, Hideki Matsui, defected to the New York Yankees in 2003). But Japanese baseball is far from dead. Seasonal attendance has actually increased in the past three years (by 5%), thanks to the establishment of interleague play. The NPB has 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...
...Bowman also has a big Christian fan base. He's been invited to stage the show in various American churches; in Boston, seven Protestant ministers came backstage to congratulate him on its "profoundly Christian message." "A lot of Christians are so resentful that Bush is hijacking the language of Jesus to do these awful things," he says. "I'm fairly sure that telling jokes about God isn't as blasphemous as torturing his children." For an age-of-terror comic like Bowman, the best jokes make for nervous laughter...