So Taguchi Returns To Japan

To play for his original team. I especially like this line:

Which of the six games of the So Taguchi Era in Chicago was your favorite?

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This one....

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN200909200.shtml

Nobody cares about your fantasy baseball team

by carmen_fanzone on Jan 23, 2010 1:46 PM CST reply actions

Is his clone still here?

As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Jan 23, 2010 1:53 PM CST reply actions

I hope it wasn't his clone that left.

We owe that guy a lot of money still.

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best." ~W. Somerset Maugham

by Goodie1969 on Jan 23, 2010 2:01 PM CST up reply actions

I think Im a clone now

theres alwayhs two of me just hanging around

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by Cubbie-Tim on Jan 23, 2010 2:28 PM CST up reply actions

I think I'm a clone now

Cause every pair of genes is a hand-me-down

"Fasten those seatbelts"-Pat Hughes

by katie casey on Jan 23, 2010 2:38 PM CST up reply actions

I still remember how it began

They produced a carbon copy man

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by Cubbie-Tim on Jan 23, 2010 2:43 PM CST up reply actions

So long, farewell

"Fasten those seatbelts"-Pat Hughes

by katie casey on Jan 23, 2010 1:56 PM CST reply actions

auf widersehen goodbye

"Dad gum right this games gonna be played under protest. . . I guarantee this is gonna be one protest that's upheld." --Hawk Harrelson, 6/24/07

by RynoHoF on Jan 23, 2010 4:29 PM CST up reply actions

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on Jan 23, 2010 5:26 PM CST up reply actions

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"A waist is a terrible thing to mind." - Terry 'Fat Tub of Goo' Forster
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by eths on Jan 23, 2010 5:52 PM CST up reply actions

Some men learn through what they read. Some men learn through what they're told. Some men have to piss on the railroad tracks. And some men keep on pissin'.

by Ryno Runner on Jan 25, 2010 12:12 AM CST up reply actions

…last year at ST, I went to the WBC game at Ho Ho Kam. (essentially a scrimmage for the WBC team) The Cubs played the Japanese squad. After the game, Taguchi stood at first base and shook every single Japanese players hand as they headed to their bus. It was clear that he was very well respected by Japanese players; they seemed honored at his gesture.

One of the many great things about ST, you really get to witness so many things you don’t see during the season.

by JB 23 on Jan 23, 2010 8:18 PM CST reply actions

i wish in the playoffs

baseball did like hockey with the teams lining up to shake hands. would be a great thing, and would be a good example to young kids playing the game

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by Cubbie-Tim on Jan 23, 2010 8:28 PM CST up reply actions

baseball is one of the worst sports to use as an example for kids

by jesus christos on Jan 23, 2010 8:54 PM CST up reply actions

sadly you are correct

and i wish that they would do something to change that

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by Cubbie-Tim on Jan 23, 2010 9:09 PM CST up reply actions

what....why do you say that....I've seen soccer moms ...that's bad

baseball.........is Kool Aid the remedy, or the cause of my desire for it

by cooliogirl47 on Jan 23, 2010 9:16 PM CST up reply actions

soccer moms have nothing on hockey moms

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by Cubbie-Tim on Jan 23, 2010 9:33 PM CST up reply actions

soccer moms on hockey moms...

I think I’ve seen clips from that movie on the internet.

As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.

by santoswoodenlegs on Jan 23, 2010 11:49 PM CST up reply actions

I will leave that one alone............

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by Cubbie-Tim on Jan 24, 2010 12:08 AM CST up reply actions

I've seen a bumber sticker that said

“My hockey mom can beat up your soccer mom”

"Fasten those seatbelts"-Pat Hughes

by katie casey on Jan 24, 2010 9:14 AM CST up reply actions

My mother was so freaked by parents screaming KILL'EM JOHNNY to their 10 year old kids,

that she pulled me from the ice hockey league in which I played in at the time.

She wasn’t exactly a hockey mom I assume.

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by eths on Jan 24, 2010 9:52 AM CST up reply actions

my three cousins play hockey

and when they were young kids jsut starting, it was insane to see kids mothers fighting over a check, etc. more than once i saw a fist fight between mothers over the kids game. i am surprised that the kids were able to keep playing with mom throwing fists. i would have been so pissed/embarassed etc if it were my mother

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by Cubbie-Tim on Jan 24, 2010 2:40 PM CST up reply actions

I never even got to put on the skates

Same with football.

I guess that’s why I like baseball and basketball so much

Thanks mom

"If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom,' but nobody beats me." ~ Leo Durocher

by Musicdude10 on Jan 25, 2010 8:35 AM CST up reply actions

You have a smart mom.

Hey, it's a new century!

by cowsarecool220 on Jan 25, 2010 3:49 PM CST up reply actions

One less option for Lou and Jim in LF....

by TJ11 on Jan 24, 2010 5:51 PM CST reply actions

Does this mean

we get to hear fewer comparisons now?

Forget all that other stuff. I gotta believe.

by drewishdrewid on Jan 24, 2010 6:12 PM CST reply actions

Too bad.

I was hoping we could sign So to a 3-year, $30 million (heavily backloaded) contract with a full no-trade clause to be our fourth outfielder / 3rd base coach. (Heavy Sarcasm Alert)

"Don't complain to me about the stormy weather, boys. Just bring the ship into port." --Steve Stone, September 2004

by ctcoff99 on Jan 24, 2010 11:59 PM CST reply actions