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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| kimchi_pizza wrote: |
| I'm surprised the media's let'n him get away with this when they really should be ripping him a new one. |
Media is the plural of medium.
Just doing my part--don't kill the msngr. |
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kimchi_pizza
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| kimchi_pizza wrote: |
| I'm surprised the media's let'n him get away with this when they really should be ripping him a new one. |
Media is the plural of medium.
Just doing my part--don't kill the msngr. |
Ah! Thanks! Now I can sleep better. Man! That...oops... those two years of Latin in high school sure was ,uh, were a waste wasn't it, weren't they, weasn't thit, ah to hades wit it all! |
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little mixed girl
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: shin hyesung's bed~
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Unposter wrote: |
OK, if you are from Pittsburg, you have half-a-right. The Browns-Steelers rivalry is right up there with OSU-Michigan.
I have only been to Pittsburg once but the UPitt area is quite nice! |
go blue!
i never knew that ichiro said such random things, but i don't often follow what he says. |
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Are they the lemmings
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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Could I say something about this comment?
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On steroids:
"When you take steroids, it's not as if wings grow out of your back, and you start flying all over the place and stealing home runs (from hitters). The word cheating doesn't apply for me regarding steroids." |
I tried to find Ichiro's original comment in Japanese but couldn't. However, I would assume it went something along these lines: "ステロイドを使用しても、背中から羽が生えて空を飛べるようになるわけでもなく、本来ホームランになる打球を掴めるようになるわけでもない。ステロイドに関して言えば、私は不正行為にならないと思う。"
To my mind, the unspoken nuance is not one of condoning steroids, but one of how futile steroids are. I interpret Ichiro's statement as saying "Steroids aren't going to turn you into a superman, so why bother?" rather than "Steroids are a part of baseball so live with it". |
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kimchi_pizza
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Harsh Bloke wrote: |
Could I say something about this comment?
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On steroids:
"When you take steroids, it's not as if wings grow out of your back, and you start flying all over the place and stealing home runs (from hitters). The word cheating doesn't apply for me regarding steroids." |
I tried to find Ichiro's original comment in Japanese but couldn't. However, I would assume it went something along these lines: "ステロイドを使用しても、背中から羽が生えて空を飛べるようになるわけでもなく、本来ホームランになる打球を掴めるようになるわけでもない。ステロイドに関して言えば、私は不正行為にならないと思う。"
To my mind, the unspoken nuance is not one of condoning steroids, but one of how futile steroids are. I interpret Ichiro's statement as saying "Steroids aren't going to turn you into a superman, so why bother?" rather than "Steroids are a part of baseball so live with it". |
That is possible, but kinda doubt it. With Japanese they say one thing and can, and usually do, mean something completely different and at times not even related to the main topic like that bowling with the girlfriend comment. WTH?
That's just part of their culture. Movies? Novels? Forgetaboutit. Try reading Yasunari Kawabata or Yukio Mishima. Great novelists but come the end and your left dumbfounded and turn'n the book every which way go'n, "That's it?!"
I'm actually kinda surprised by his forward comments which is kind of unheard of in the Land of the Rising Umeboshi. Guess he's stretch'n those Americanized legs and freedoms. Or maybe he's going through his own bit of culture shock? Isn't there a song, "Turning Japanese" or something like that? Maybe we can reword that for good o'Ichiro.
Oh, those corky Japanese and their "mushin-no-shin", Mind of the no-mind!
That's one reason why I like Korea. Koreans may be more abrasive in manner, but you know where they and you stand and a smile is a real smile and frown is a real frown. |
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