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Comment on Great reading on Bobby Valentine, by Robert Whiting by John Brooks

John Brooks — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:16:49 +0000

Also, from what I heard they went all out after Valentine’s support team, the people he brought in(Larry Rocca, etc), and everyone else to make his last year a living hell and to prevent him from actually being successful on the field, which would then corner Chiba Lotte into not being able to get rid of him.

From what I read of Whiting’s 4 piece set: is like Hirooka before, Setoyama came to resent Valentine for ignoring him. Chiba’s head honcho, Akio Shigemitsu, also seemed to grow tired of Valentine. New manager, Norifumi Nishimura, seemed to take a swipe at Valentine’s laid back approach with the players that made them so great.

This is such an epic fall for someone Chiba was ready to nominate “manager for life” after the 2005 season and had his face on every Chiba product. Larry Rocca sums it up good I think:

We thought it would be different for us compared to other gaijin who had come over and tried to change things and failed. But in the end, we were just like everybody else

It proves things are hard to change in NPB. Though why do I have this feeling that Bobby Valentine will be back in NPB and Setoyama will go the way of Hirooka? Maybe, I’m the only one with this feeling, maybe I’m not, but its my gut feeling that Chiba Lotte will come crawling back to Valentine one way or the other. Or some other NPB team will come calling for him sooner or later.

Comment on Japan-Jewish connection? by Conzo

Conzo — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:03:10 +0000

hahaha this would no doubt explain my grandmothers background if confirmed. she is dark, short, has very curly hair, a round asian looking face, and almond eyes. she has jewish ancestry but looks very asian soo I am guessing if this is confirmed it hits her ethnic nail on the head.

Comment on Catch the Bus iPhone application (and MBTA Bus 70) by daigo

daigo — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:16:12 +0000

Very cool Dan, thank you so much!

Comment on I like to eat! by simon

simon — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:32:54 +0000

I like to eat too. Hope to enjoy more pictures of Bean Town cuisine as the weather gets better. Check out my webpage for food from this side of The Pond.

Comment on Catch the Bus iPhone application (and MBTA Bus 70) by Dan

Dan — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:10:44 +0000

Try using OpenMBTA’s bus schedules. Point your iPhone Safari browser to m.openmbta.org.

Comment on Translating Japanese (or any other language, for that matter) is hard. by Bill

Bill — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:26:45 +0000

I wanted to thank you for the translation. I am very grateful for any information that I come across concerning Japanese players in MLB. The revelations in the arcticle gave me even more respect for Matsuzaka, I wouldn’t have had that info if not for your translation. Thank you very much.

Comment on Japanese pitchers and uniform number 18 by Bill

Bill — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:37:57 +0000

Is it possible that 18 is chosen due to 1+8=9?

Comment on MySQL data format to display format in PHP by mysql format date

mysql format date — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:41:35 +0000

here is a good website for formatting dates using the date_format function