Every baseball fan knows the usual reasons a Central League Pennant win by the Yomiuri Giants is a bad end to a season.  There’s the predictable and dull victory of money, power, and league-stifling near-monopoly, and the glib glee of bandwagon-riding orange muppets. Everyone who’s listened to John McCain knows that Barack Obama is personally responsible for the entire financial crisis facing [...]

Update: The good news is that the article below does in fact appear to be a rumor, and probably an unreliable one at that. As of 10/22, Hoshino is still being written of as being uninterested in the job and none less than Ichiro Suzuki called on Japanese baseball officials to hurry up and name [...]