http://blogs.roanoke.com/aaronmcfarling/2012/04/extended-game-report-heavy-on-the-dice-k-wilmington-7-salem-2/ Sat, 18 May 2013 02:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.roanoke.com/aaronmcfarling/2012/04/extended-game-report-heavy-on-the-dice-k-wilmington-7-salem-2/#comment-19083 Aaron McFarling Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:21:27 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/aaronmcfarling/?p=8092#comment-19083 RP — Didn’t realize they’d done that; you’re right, probably not the best move. I was down under the tunnel when that happened staking out Dice-K. Fortunately, my Japanese media pals were too, so at least they didn’t see it.

]]> http://blogs.roanoke.com/aaronmcfarling/2012/04/extended-game-report-heavy-on-the-dice-k-wilmington-7-salem-2/#comment-19080 RP Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:00:57 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/aaronmcfarling/?p=8092#comment-19080 Memo to the Salem Red Sox promotional staff….. On a night where a rockstar Japanese pitcher is making a one-time-only appearance, with a substantial Japanese media presence and a significant number of Asian/Japanese fans on-hand, you probably shouldn’t have played the “dress kids up as sumo wrestlers” game (with the song “I think I’m Turning Japanese” by the Vapors playing in the background) in the middle of the 5th inning… Talk about stereotypes…

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