``The owners of these teams must meet the demands and meet the wants of the players to keep them here,'' Valentine, manager of last year's Japan champion Chiba Lotte Marines, said in a June 12 interview in Tokyo with Bloomberg News. Players leaving ``is bad for Japanese baseball.''
Yeah, but what about Kazuo Matsui?
As of June 15th, Valentine's team, defending champion Chiba, leads the Pacific League by 2 games over the Softbank Hawks.
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Baseball games in Japan are ruled ties after 12 innings. Or if they're shortened by rain, which isn't often as they usually keep playing once they start. But they rain out the games a lot.
They have to have ties because 95% of the fans (maybe even more for some teams) take public transportation to games and that usually stops running around midnight.
Kaz Matsui leaving Japan is "bad" for their image ;) ... Shinjo's leaving was a mix cause they got a lunatic to leave Japan but also ruins their image...
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1) Bobby Valentine is a demigod, and I will hear no besmirching of his name. People, I will find you, and I will hunt you down. Got that? Outstanding.
2) Bob, I just did a "Dead to Me/On Notice" list...One of the great catharses of my life...thanks for the forum.
comment 2, I borrowed the concept from Steven Colbert.
Baseball games in Japan are ruled ties after 12 innings. Or if they're shortened by rain, which isn't often as they usually keep playing once they start. But they rain out the games a lot.
They have to have ties because 95% of the fans (maybe even more for some teams) take public transportation to games and that usually stops running around midnight.
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