There will be a cultural learning curve. At least this is worth a chuckle.

… now he vaults to the top of the list. This dude is awesome.

texas is for bitches

I know that there’s a lot of adjustments I need to make, not just in USA and Texas, but I’m also aware the baseballs are very different. I’m sure that will come with time and I’ll make the necessary adjustments. But the ballpark itself and the dimensions… when I was here in January I was on the mound and I looked over to the right-center wall and it seemed a little bit closer. I was asking the GM if they could back that up a little bit. I don’t know where they are with that though.

His ERA won’t be anything like it was back in Japan.

Front of shirt: I will survive
Back of shirt: in my Mach 5

Featuring Ron Washington exclaiming at Yu Darvish “Marijuana’s not a drug, I suck d*ck for coke, you ever suck d*ck for Marijuana?” meanwhile Josh Hamilton just nods saddly

My bet is he was wearing it just to seem hip. That’s kind of a Japanese thing to do. Is that racist? But seriously, a Japanese girl I knew in college said they dress more for other people rather than just being themselves and sticking with a style. One day, they might be all punked out, the next they’d be all preppy.