Dateline... Recent baseball headlines arouse intense emotions in fans, while firm members of the baseball community give slow, deliberate, deeply penetrating responses to hard questions posed by the cunning linguists of the media...
For a deeper, more intense look at the details, here are the facts...
---Rangers to sign Japanese RHP Fukumori
---http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=txrangersfukumori&prov=st&type=lgns
---Cubs sign Japanese OF Fukudome
---http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=txcubsfukudome&prov=st&type=lgns
Fukudome... Fukumori...
Hmmmm, with this kind of activity, and a few strategically placed pauses in the pronunciation of these names, I suspect there will have to be a new type of TV contract, most likely a series of late night telecasts on Cinemax...
Ok, give me a second to regain my composure here... Sorry about that ;-)...
Oh yeah, on a side note... baseball also released the Mitchell report yesterday, too..
Clemens hit hard in Mitchell Report; Tejada, Bonds and Pettitte also named
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-mitchellreport&prov=ap&type=lgns
I already addressed this topic earlier, and in general it still applies...
http://chockssquawks.blogspot.com/2007/08/should-we-cut-little-slack.html
However, Bonds' current problems stem actually from the perjury charges, not so much from the drug use, so his problems are a little different from the rest of these guys.
I guess I didn't realize how deeply intense and arousing the off-season hot stove league can be ;-)
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