More reasons I love Japanese Baseball

[dr4b]

When Carl and I went to Nara, one of the funniest parts of the day was watching people at Todaiji try to fit themselves through the "nose hole" in the pillar by the Daibutsu (gigantic Buddha).

Well, Kazuo Fukumori, the closer for the Rakuten Golden Eagles and a damn fine pitcher, apparently has no qualms about looking silly trying to fit too, even putting that in his blog. Hee.

And um, if you want to see the funniest interview that has ever been done in the history of all Sports Illustrated, you must check out the Q&A with Kei Igawa. I'm sure something got lost in translation in the interview, because there's no way in hell he's naturally this deadpan hilarious.

Comments

[proz.livejournal.com]

Maybe Steven Wright was his translator.

[nppyinzer.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a terrible interview. When the first FIVE questions were all about things he doesn't give a damn about (including two follow-ups after he made it clear that he wasn't going to talk about Dice), Igawa pretty obviously tuned the guy out. Either the interviewer didn't actually listen to any of the answers, or he did the interview over email.

[cdinwood.livejournal.com]

I only saw people under the age of 10 try to fit through that hole. Most of them fit.