Christian Caryl
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Oct 30, 2007 05:36 PM
So who was the winner of this year's World Series? No question - it was the Japanese. Okay, so maybe the Red Sox won too. But, let's be honest - how many Red Sox fans are there in the world? 20, 30 million tops? Still can't hold a candle to 127 million Japanese, the vast majority of whom tuned in to every minute of this year's Series between the Sox and the Colorado Rockies. They were rooting not only for Boston pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, who made headlines earlier this year when he signed a $52-million contract with the club and became the first Japanese to start a World Series; they were also pulling for Rockies star Kazuo Matsui, formerly of the New York Mets. As pretty much every Japanese fan knows, Dice-K and Matsui used to be teammates on the Seibu Lions pro team back in their home country. So Japanese fans had plenty of potential drama to savor. Could Matsuzaka redeem himself by staging a comeback from his weak performance in the playoffs? Would Matsui manage to put his more famous ex-teammate in the shade - and take revenge on the hated Mets who so clearly failed to appreciate his gifts? Thanks to the Sox' victory, of course, Matsuzaka is now being hailed as a hero back at home.
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Christian Caryl
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Sep 4, 2007 03:57 PM
Asashoryu, come back! We're sorry! We didn't mean it! Somehow I don't think we're going to be hearing that collective cry from the Japanese any time soon - not after what's been going on here over the past few weeks. The media in this country have been...
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