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Daisuke Matsuzaka showed up in Fort Myers with a mullet. How do we know this? By reading the Boston Globe’s Extra Bases blog by our pals Amalie Benjamin, Nick Cafardo and Gordon Edes.
Might as well start keeping an eye on Boston now. The Yankees will be battling them all season. The only spring meeting between Athens and Sparta comes on March 17 at Legends Field.
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Peter Abraham
Ill be there on Paddys Day…
So are we, the Yankees, Athens or Sparta?
Didn’t you see 300, we’re sparta. The whole world vs us.
Hmm… Dice-K’s new do is closer to a fauxhawk than a mullet.
can we start calling Dice-K Joe Dirt now?
He looks like a moron.
I have a feeling Daisuke will have a very good year in 2008. It’s rare today that a starting pitcher can have a disappointing year while striking out 200 batters and allowing less hits than innings-pitched. If he is able to overcome the wild sprees where he walks 4 guys and allows 4 runs in one inning he will be very dangerous. However, the league will have finally seen the mystical Matsuzaka and will make adjustments. We’ll see how he adjusts back. And there will be even more pressure with Schilling’s stable presence now held greatly in question.
It’s not quite a mullet, but the beginning of one. Cut it before it spawns more. Actually, scratch that. I want to see all the Red Sox wearing one. A whole team of Joe Dirts.
He probably got the look from Japanese surfers.
Does anyone know if the Clemens hearing will be on TV tomorrow? If so, what channel?
By the by, Dice-K finished 52nd of 79 qualifying pitchers in ERA with a 4.40. His salary (including posting fee) is $17.16m/yr. There is up to $60m in bonus money, but unless he approaches CY territory he wont see any of it.
So, what’s to come of Dice-K? What kind of genius was Theo on the one? (Theo really care, ya know…)
Eric - The hearings tomorrow are on ESPN.
Eric,
I’m sure it’ll be on C-SPAN.
There will probably be a live feed at espn.com as well.
Mullets are back? Finally! These last 15 years without one have been so annoying. The world was a wonderful place when mullets and one earing were all the rage.
Jeff,
Let me guess, King of the Hill is your favorite show and Jeff Foxworthy is your favorite comedian.
Please, please tell me that you were joking.
cmon guys.. kei igawa has that same stupid hair cut.
At least dice-k doesn’t look like an idiot with his mouth open and a perturbed look on his face.
Mel, thanks but no to both of those. In fairness, back in the late 80’s, early 90’s when I had long hair, it was not a mullet as the style was to have long hair on the sides as well. Those will always be the good old days to me though.
Matsuzaka (Dice-K) mania has taken a dramatic plunge. Sales of shirts have dropped at a sharp pace.
The “Gyro” pitch turned out to be a myth.
A fable.
Boatan…
The “gyroball” does exist. It’s just that Dice-K doesn’t throw it. Last year I asked Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports if he could post a video of a gyroball being thrown after he met with an instructor who demonstrated exactly what it is supposed to look like uses a two-colored ball. It’s pretty interesting if you like that stuff.
The gyroball actually doesn’t move that much. If anything, to me, it looked like Pedro’s fastball did when he was in his prime.
Too funny reading on the Boston blog that Truck Day is such a big deal. The Red Sox are a customer of the company I work for and they always say they need their order to coincide with Truck Day. I never realized TV stations took video of it though.
I think Boston is clearly Athens. Not only are they known for their Universities, but the Yankees are clearly the more Spartan of the two teams, regulating the facial hair of their players.
Yeah because when I think cultural hub of the world I think of…Boston. New York City is the capital of the world, Boston is about as Athenian as Istanbul.
wait, i thougth mullets came back when the mullet jokes got old (2002 or so?)
JR, relax, it was a joke. Who actually really cares which is more “Athenian”?
For the record though, Istanbul is just as much a capital of the world as is New York City. It would probably do you some good to get out of the country.
derr I’ll get out of the country. let me break it down for you Greece’s enemy = Turkey, Istanbul is in Turkey, Istanbul no equal Athens
“For the record though, Istanbul is just as much a capital of the world as is New York City. It would probably do you some good to get out of the country.’
I travel the world often on both business & pleasure & I can say with confidence that there are several cities around the word that rival New York when it comes to dominance on the World Stage (Hong Kong, London & Tokyo come to mind). Istanbul, while a lovely city with an impressive history is not even close to being a World Capital.
JR, Greece’s enemy was actually Persia, which is very different from Turkey. And Istanbul was controlled more by Greeks an later Romans than it ever was by Persians. Nice try though.
And Dana, it’s the largest city in Europe, fourth largest in the world. It may not be rich with the Western culture you prefer, but it’s a very unique and culturally rich city due to it being on the line between Europe and Asia. Many important historical figures have referred to it as the capital of the world.
My bad, those pop rankings aren’t current anymore but you get the idea.
Crikey, Old Town where did you dig up that stuff?
You are correct about Persia and the Greeks. The Turks didn’t make it out of Central Asia until 1078, and didn’t conquer Constantinople until 1454. However, you’re waxing poetic of the glory of Istanbul is a bit overblown. FTR - I lived in Istanbul and NYC and comparing the two is absurd. Istanbul was, under the rule of Suleyman, a major force in cultural history. Mind you, it was that way because of its heritage from Byzantine empire and its position in the trade routes. However, it is rather homogeneous now, thoroughly Turkish, with very little of the previous cosmopolitan flavor.
Which by the way was as western as western gets! Mehmet hoped to restore the city as a western outpost of the Ottoman Empire.
Here’s the challenge find two enclave within Istanbul that rival NYC’s Chinatown and Little Italy. Or better yet, find me a shop where you can buy pork!!
BTW - Paris and Moscow are larger than Istanbul, and both are located in the continent of Europe. Istanbul is also #22 after various cities that include Cairo, Lagos, Los Angeles, and Osaka.
I like to think the Yankees as Athens. Although they lost the Peloponnesian War, they eventually outlasted Sparta and had an enduring influence human history. Seen many plays by Spartan playwrights, read many books by Spartan authors, read much philosophy by Spartan philosophers? Oh, and Alexander was not Greek.
One last question: what the difference between something that is simply “unique” and something that is “very unique”?
Greece is the word
Jeez… some pretty heady posts. We might have to get Rebecca and Mel in here to wax poetically on shoes and recipes to lighten the mood.
lol, comment of the night Juke.
Onkel, I like history. I’ve never lived in Instanbul for an extended period of time but I’ve been to the market there. Have you seen it? It’s incredible. It seems as if it’s endless and the sights and sounds and smells are so rich. To me it blows away Chinatown and Little Italy put together. I already said the pop. rankings I used weren’t current anymore. Nonetheless, Istanbul is a beautiful, wonderful city, just in a more rustic way that NYC. What’s wrong with Turkish? They’re infinitely more hospitable than New Yorkers.
I just don’t understand how you could see the Yankees as Athens though. Don’t you see their uniforms and facial hair mandates as more than a tad Spartan? And the Red Sox are just the opposite, they cherish their player’s individuality.
Who said anything about Alexander.
And this is a blog, not an English class. I don’t think I have to justify relaxed grammar here.
And Onkel, give me a call when NYC remains relevant for 1,000 years. It’ll be under water by then, lol
NYC just gets old to me to be honest. You could be in NYC and unless you look up at the roof tops it looks like any other major American cities. How many cites have you been to that look like Istanbul when you’re walking the streets?
Maybe after a Yankee win, they should sing Istanbul Istanbul?
Old Town, I’m pulling your chain on the grammar thingy…
I never said there was anything wrong with the Turkish. After living in Germany for 5 years I had plenty of Turkish friends, which is why I went to Istanbul in the first place. Never learned Turkish because German was a second language for many of my colleagues. I lived in Adana too, but that is like living in Witchita. And yes, I went to the markets in the city. Although the food is wonderful, I really missed my Schweinhaxen during my stay in Istanbul. Still, Istanbul may be to the inexperienced eye a diverse place, but the reality is it is more comparable to St. Louis (without pigs!) than one of our “melting pot” cities. There is little culture beyond the dominant one, regardless of how wonderful it may be. Now Berlin, that’s a diverse city.
I just threw in the Alexander reference as an aside, in case someone decided to claim him for there side.
The Athenians hardly celebrated diversity or individuality, ostracism was a common practice. Remember what they did to that guy named Socrates?
Obviously, Pete is emphasizing the rivalry between the teams not comparing the cities to the historical events. No one would understand it if he said Toltecs and Aztecs, yet that would be a more apt comparison. They played ball and the outcome of matches had almost similar consequences!
Maybe Matsuzaka should wear an Ed Hardy cap…
>>Didn’t you see 300, we’re sparta. The whole world vs us.