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Yeah...it's the Yankees who are the ONLY TEAM buying talent out there...
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If the Japanese professional league and MLB never actually put it in writing that the MLB teams could not go after Japanese amateurs and vice versa they should have know it was just a matter of time before it happened, haven't they learned anything over the centuries from dealing with us westerners??
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are .
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The Nippon League never drafted him, instead he played for Japan Oil, he has every right to go to sign with a MLB Team.
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Japan should not be that upset. They honored his request. They should have thought he would want to come to the States.
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They're just pissed they won't get 50 to 60 million just to talk to the kid.Originally Posted by flapper
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are .
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There's a cultural clash occurring here. It doesn't seem to me that the money is the primary issue to the Japanese (although, that's certainly part of it), rather it's some form of Japanese honor that we're misunderstanding.
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Probably not all that dissimilar than how some people got worked up over THIS
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Or how the managers would tell pitchers to pitch around American players who were chasing the HR records over there. I think Alex Cabrera is an example of that? They wanted it protected.
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What's the clash? NPB had a chance to sign the guy from early on and decided, for whatever reason, not to, so he went and pitched in an Industrial League. If they thought he was going to amount to anything, they had a chance to sign him and by the time they actually decided to move, it was too late. Now it is culture clash.
I thought blaming the downfall of the Korean Baseball League on American Baseball to be a crock of ****, too. NPB has been raiding Korea of its talent as well ... it just doesn't pay as well.
Foreign players are seeing big bucks going to the more talented of Japan's players and are now looking to cash in on it earlier in their careers.
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Personally, I think Hammon's story is a little bit different. She wanted to play in the Olympics which I have no problem with but she became a Naturalized Citizen without having Russian familial ties. Had she played for a country her great grandparents had been from, that is another story.
This guy just wants to compete against the best in the world and get paid for it. He isn't becoming an American Citizen in order to play.
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That's all she wanted too was to fulfill her dream of playing in the Olympics.
People accused her of being a 'traitor' and being 'unpatriotic' because she played for Russia.
I'm sure many of the Japanese feel the same way about their best players leaving home to play someplace else
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There's leaving home and then there's changing one's citizenship in order to play. I think those are two very different things ... now, had her parents, grandparents or some distant relative been Russian by birth, I think no one would have a problem with her playing for another country.
On the other hand, USA Basketball sucks in their selection of players and they flat out told Hammon they didn't want her.
Well, Tazawa isn't the first to leave his country to play in the States and he isn't changing his citizenship. NPB had their chance to sign the guy and they decided not to.
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