Writing the Pine

Section 203: Yankees/Angels Preview and Predictions

I hope we don’t see this again.  It happened in ‘02.  It happened again in ‘05.  They’ve always played us tough, rallied behind their monkey to pummel our bullpen (Mo included), and protected their homefield.  (Which isn’t in Los Angeles.  It’s in Anaheim.  That’s like if the NY Giants called themselves the New York Giants [...]

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Asian Guy Power Rankings – Midseason Special Edition

After seeing three Asian players selected to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 2006 and two in 2007, I was disappointed to see that Ichiro was the only Asian player selected to the All-Star game.  The last few reserve selections – especially in the outfield – are usually toss-ups, but I felt that Shin-Soo [...]

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Ichiro & Griffey: Teammates? Stepbrothers? Or… ?

As I was doing my daily due diligence by reading any content that comes up in Google for players in my Asian Guy Power Rankings, I came across this article by The News Tribune’s Larry Larue, which described the impact that Seattle Mariners’ Ken Griffey Jr. has had on Ichiro Suzuki.  Now if I was [...]

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