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...summit, and although he was accorded the rare honor of addressing Japan's legislature, he couldn't make the front-page lead of the country's national newspapers. That territory belonged to Daisuke Matsuzaka, a 26-year-old pitcher whose six-year, $52 million contract with the Boston Red Sox (plus another $51 million Boston paid to Matsuzaka's old team, the Seibu Lions, just for the right to negotiate with him) is the most lucrative deal ever for a player coming out of Japan. That may be a fitting tribute to the All-Star Matsuzaka, who goes...
...taken a few shots of myself humorlessly glaring at the camera, awkwardly forming my lips into some sort of porno-star sneer in a disturbing attempt at whatever I think of as masculinity. I even recently flipped the collar of my pink polo shirt and donned a Red Sox cap during one of these personal photo shoots. This was truly the low point of my existence...
...NAMES DIE HARD Some ballparks are forever. Most Chicago White Sox partisans still refer to home as Comiskey Park, which was demolished in '91, not U.S. Cellular Field. To S.F. 49ers fans, Monster Park will always be Candlestick...
Daisuke Matsuzaka has never thrown a pitch in the majors, but that didn't stop the Boston Red Sox from paying the Seibu Lions $51.1 million just for the right to negotiate with the Japanese sensation. The righthander has even inspired some suspicious lore: his "gyroball," a supposedly unhittable sinking fastball (it sounds like a ruse). So buyer beware: while a few highly paid Japanese imports, like Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui of the New York Yankees, became All-Stars, others have memorably struck...
...White Sox fan, I sat in front of my TV overjoyed when pinch runner Pablo Ozuna scored the winning run but puzzled at how the umpire could call strike three, make a fist to signal the out, and then call the player safe at first...