And, Still, Fuck Ichiro!

[Edgy MD]

Go for it.

[metirish]

It's an OK article, seeing it all over the internet like it's the best thing ever written , Ichiro is a bit odd and likes routine

[Guest cooby]

Actually until he started pummeling baseballs toward my head without looking (see previous post) I had no opinion of him at all. I guess I don't love him or hate him

[Fman99]

Fuck Esther Williams! (I would. I'd even let Larry Gatlin take video of it).

[Edgy MD]

I like Ichiro. He's like Worf to me, in that his society is built around honor, but almost everyone is a real phony about it, and use honor as a symbolic commodity in their power trip. But he's the the guy who embarrasses everybody around him who might be faking it, because he takes it so dead serious.

[Guest d'Kong76]

And in closing, ladies and gentlemen of Cooperstown and around the world,
let me say one last time; "Fukushū wa saikō no samui ryōridesu." Thank you.

(Sorry, google doesn't have Klingon translation yet. Yet.)

[Edgy MD]

Still at it.

[youtube:1ehrcl10]9VGGp09Z3u4[/youtube:1ehrcl10]

[Frayed Knot]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I was in Japan for two weeks in 2006, and I found that most people who were younger than me were able to speak English. Not necessarily fluent, but able to hold a conversation.

My brother has a friend from grade school days who somehow became fluent in Japanese and wound up living in Japan teaching English to Japanese students (a mixture of young & adult, I think).
Anyway, the thing about Jimmy S. is that he looks and speaks like the classic New York Italian stereotype so I always imagined these students who learned under him speaking their English with all the accents
and inflections of Martin Scorcese gangster film characters.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: Still at it. [youtube]9VGGp09Z3u4[/youtube]

Fuuuuuck, Ichiro!

[Edgy MD]

A time-lapse video of the distribution of every hit in Ichiro's MLB career.

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[nymr83]

wow NEVER homered to the opposite field in 3000 hits

[Edgy MD]

Looks like he had one to left center in July 2002 that was either an inside-the-parker or occurred in a park with a relatively short power alley.



OE: Looks like June 29 against the Rockies off of Mike Hampton at Safeco.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I wish more hitters used the entire field like Ichiro did during his career. It amazes me the preponderance hitters in baseball that keep making outs against dramatic defensive shifts rather than taking an almost sure hit by going to the opposite field (or simply bunting). If hitters would simply take what the defense is giving (conceding) to them a few times, teams would eventually have to abandon the shift defenses.

[Edgy MD]

Ichiro pulled a Valentine, sneaking into the dougout in-game disguised as a trainer or something.

[Zvon]

That gave me a chuckle.

[MFS62]

Don't know if it is worthy of its own thread, and the hadn't been a TWiB thread recently., so -
last week, Adrian Beltre broke Ichiro's record of most MLB hits by a foreign-born player.
And there is no doubt more than a few of his hits became home runs to left-center field.

LAter