Re: 5/4 Cubs (Marquis) @ Cardinals (Wellemeyer) 7:05pm CDT, ESPN

[Fred Hornkohl]

Fukudome walked

[haubrich91]

Japanese patience, FTW.

[C.C.]

Great AB. What else is new.

[CubsGM]

DeRosa please keep the ball off the ground

[illiniguy]

Lee in a 6-26 minislump

Soriano would kill for a minislump like that.

[bcl412]

All Japanese people play alike

[UMFan83]

Unbelievably, that is Fukudome's first walk in the last 7 games.

[chuckywang]

FINALLY!

 

You know it's an official ESPN broadcast when Fukudome is compared to other Japanese players.

[erik316wttn]

Can Fukudome pitch? If so, can we clone him?

[CubsGM]

Fu-Kah-Doh-Meh

[JoshiQ]

I wonder if they know that there were other plays in Japanese baseball besides Kosuke and Matsui's?

[C.C.]

All Japanese people play alike

 

 

Well they kinda do.

[TruffleShuffle]

yes japanese hitters can only swing like hideki matsui or ichiro

[erik316wttn]

FINALLY!

 

You know it's an official ESPN broadcast when Fukudome is compared to other Japanese players.

 

How many times have they mentioned 1908?

[CubmanPi]

When will Joe Morgan finally stop receiving a paycheck for speaking?

[Roast]

All Japanese people play alike

Obviously, don't you know?

 

I hate how he has yet to be compared to anybody not named matsui or suzuki

[E.J.]

I don't understand why they aren't comparing DeRosa to every other white guy in baseball.

[JimSorgi]

FINALLY!

 

You know it's an official ESPN broadcast when Fukudome is compared to other Japanese players.

Yeah, but how many times have they brought up the curse?

[Andy]

FINALLY!

 

You know it's an official ESPN broadcast when Fukudome is compared to other Japanese players.

 

How many times have they mentioned 1908?

None yet. They did mention 1945 as being the last year we led the NL in OBP.

[17 Seconds]

On a related note, I wish Cameron Diaz would get hit by a train.

 

Yeah, my train.

[evv98]

Im tired of all the comparison to Ichiro and Godzilla.....

Joe blatantly stole that point from Sports Illustrated

 

Has Joe ever really had an original thought? I mean an original thought that made any sense?

[Soul]

FINALLY!

 

You know it's an official ESPN broadcast when Fukudome is compared to other Japanese players.

 

This is the brilliant analysis for which ESPN has come to be known.

[Fred Hornkohl]

DeRosa flied out to right field

[illiniguy]

On a related note, I wish Cameron Diaz would get hit by a train.

 

Yeah, my train.

Not for me, not even with your train.

[C.C.]

Soto time!