The Times had a great article today about Brian Cashman’s trip to China to show off the Yanks’ World Championship trophy:
M.L.B.’s goal is to build a base in China like the N.B.A.’s. It broadcasts games to more than 50 Chinese television stations and reaps tens of millions of dollars in revenue from Chinese fans. But [...]

Murray Chass wrote an interesting blog post today about the Mets’ offseason process:
But more than one agent cited the Mets’ inability to deal with more than one free agent at a time as the primary reason they lost out on free agents. “We’re interested in your guy,” more than one agent recalled the Mets saying, [...]

This is another clip from Takashi, in which Val Pascucci hits a game-winning pinch-hit home run for Bobby Valentine’s Marines. Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure Pascucci himself described to me the way the Pascucci cheer went on all at-bat long, but I guess I never really considered how strange that would [...]

I’m certainly not here to hate on breaded and fried pork, but I don’t know how anyone could even begin to compare the cuisine of Indianapolis with the cuisine of New Orleans. Non-starter.
WAR, huh? What is it good for? Predicting the Mets to suck.
Hey look, it’s Anthony Tao. Last time I saw this guy, [...]

Big thanks to Takashi to pointing me to this massive developing story out of Japan. Tsuyoshi Shinjo has apparently shaved his head. Check it out:

I can’t say I’m 100 percent in favor of the decision. I realize I should know better than to doubt Shinjo’s fashion choices, but man, he had some good hair, and [...]