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oystertoadfish posted:nomo was the first of the modern Japanese players in baseball but I'm gonna be pedantic and mention Masanori Murakami, the very first one, who did okay as a reliever but went back due to contractual obligations and wasn't followed until nomo thirty years later: There was a really sad article about ichiro and how driven he is for baseball because of his dad.
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Rigel posted:The only thing I am lacking is a sufficiently goony January sumo basho title for the thread, so please feel free to make some submissions now. I'll probably post it in a few days. Kenning posted:Watch out! You're going to get a <profound injury> in your <core skeletal/muscular structure>!
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Mekchu posted:It's a Japanese Sports Culture thing. There was a 30-for-30 podcast episode on the first Japanese player to cross over from the Nippon league to MLB and part of his issues with wanting to leave the Nippon league was that his coaches/general manager demanded that because he was such a good pitcher he had to keep pitching despite being injured because ~reasons (aka they were a crap team and in Japan as well as Korea they lean super heavy on the best players thus breaking them entirely rather than accepting they need time to heal/recuperate). We have something like this in our current work place. We call it 'performance based punishment'. The bosses are given the task to do something, and nobody is leaving till it's done, so are you going to task Mr. Sad Act, the slowest and most incompetent member of your team to do it and stay there till 10 at night, or are you going to get you competent dudes to knock it out in an hour? The choice is obvious, and within two years we lose our best people.
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# ? Jan 5, 2020 23:19 |
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If i hosed the new thread up pretty badly, please let me know here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3909337 I borrowed quite a bit from the old OP, just updating with new info.
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