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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Japan baseball officials announced on Wednesday that the national team for the 2009 WBC will be known as “Samurai Japan”, named after the country’s former warrior nobility.
Samurai Japan? Why not Ninjas!? I mean, Ninjas flip out and kill people!
Gamingboy
Posted: November 12, 2008 at 11:45 AM | 84 comment(s)
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American Ninjas! Totally sweet.
It's my understanding that only Caribbean or African countries can have cool names for their national sports teams. Soca Warriors, Indomitable Lions, Super Eagles, etc. All other teams are limited to referring to themselves as a color.
Dude, you will be dead before you hit the floor.
It's my understanding that only Caribbean or African countries can have cool names for their national sports teams. Soca Warriors, Indomitable Lions, Super Eagles, etc. All other teams are limited to referring to themselves as a color.
As I understand it, the English call their national soccer team "####### Wankers"
I speak of course of Teddy Roosevelt. The biggest badass the world has ever seen.
That is ####### awesome, Do they have a cool elephant logo? If so, how do I get a t-shirt?
edit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/2800746090/
I like it!
Japan - Nippon Ham Fighters
Korea - Hyundai Unicorns
Taiwan - Brother Elephants
Canada - Winnipeg Goldeyes
Mexico - Cancun Lobstermen
Netherlands - DOOR Neptunus
USA - Montgomery Biscuits
"The towering Hackman, standing at 196 cm and weighing at 103 kg, took the mound after taking a three-day break from a previous game."
"Kao Chih-kang, an infielder, of the Lions ran to the second base at the bottom of the third inning and returned home on a sacrifice"
:Chuang was able to reach the base on a wild pass by the Elephants and ran back home on a high-fly sacrifice"
"At the bottom of the fifth inning, Yang Sheng of the Lions was given a walk to the first base. "
Intimidating, no. But sexy, very sexy.
We could, but then they'd change their name to Viable Auto Industry Japan.
Facts:
1. Ninjas are mammals.
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.
Sasuke had a mean curveball.
What a crock. Splinter sat around in the sewer 24/7, occasionally distributing high-and-mighty life lessons or acting the deus ex machina by breaking out obscure "ancient Japanese remedies" to otherwise impossible problems.
That's if you accept the cartoon as canon.
If Whitey Herzog had his way, the World Series would be played in Cyber Egg Stadium.
Have you guys ever heard of the inverse law of ninjas?
One ninja is very dangerous, he'll attack unseen and disappear before you even know he struck.
But 100 ninjas, all rushing you at once? Very easy for a hero to dispatch all of them.
No, but Richland High School might.
An interesting corollary to this is the Andre the Giant exception. He became so used to fighting hordes of fighters that it only took one small and kinda wimpy man to bring him down.
The Brother Elephants will always have a soft spot in my heart for employing Bronswell Patrick.
Getting a shirt may be harder than you think, though.
I'm going to need a ninja and a lot of towels to get that shirt.
Nah. We'll simply be known as The Adam Sterns.
You mean, The Stubby Clapps, right?
I'm still here.
Ninjas are definitely, incredibly overrated.
I'm not convinced that a Ninja didn't already kill you, and write that just to throw off suspicion.
Why would the ninja need to throw off suspicion? If they were such bad asses they'd leave my body propped up in the middle of my apartment lobby riddled with shurkien as a clear warning not to f@ck with them. If a ninja needed to throw off suspicion, he'd be a monumental pu$$y.
Japan clearly went with the correct warrior class for their nickname. Ninjas remain incredibly overrated.
Preferably in a venue that ends with "of DOOM!"
Wouldn't that be a seven-way fight?
I suspect 1000 Gurkhas could take any of them...
nah... Take the Isotopes. Remind everyone that we can always nuke the snot out of them.
mini-Ditka could take em all on
Almost assuredly, since the manager's name is Hara, and he'll be fired (kiru) if they lose.
Japan - Nippon Ham Fighters
What's ridiculous about this?
YES I KNOW THAT IT IS THE (NIPPON HAM) FIGHTERS AND NOT THE NIPPON (HAM FIGHTERS). IT STILL SOUNDS RIDICULOUS.
I've heard of it as the Conservation of Ninjitsu. Be warned, the website linked has eaten up hours of my time and may do likewise for others.
The real find was when I looked at the teams in the Honkbal Hoofdklasse, and discovered DOOR Neptunus. Another team in that league is currently called Mr. Cocker HCAW.
Ninjas remain incredibly overrated.
Logic follows that USA should be American Dreams.
Baseball Stars' SNK Stadium was nice and symmetrical with plenty of foul territory.
For a real slugfest, I'd go with R.B.I. Baseball's Tengen Stadium (or whatever it was called!). It was tiny and fielders can walk through certain walls to rob homeruns. Great for ratings.
Any team named "Mr." is incredible.
Your head is probably severed, you just don't realize it.
No, I checked that.
Have you guys seen Dead Silence? I bet the ninja killed OCD, gutted him, and then turned him into an elaborate ventriloquist's dummy. The ways of the ninja are versatile and squishy.
(has to turn off computer to avoid laughing very hard at that sentence)
Then my work here is done. Good night folks!
I thought I might have been the victim of a ninja attack, but it turned out I just stubbed my toe.
Ninjas are overrated.
I waited this long on the off chance that a ninja might have slipped me some dastardly poison that would take so long to kill me that it would make my death seem completely accidental and untraceable as an assassination.
Nope. Ninjas remain overrated.
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