I really do want to know what they're saying in the first panel of the Braves cartoon with Smoltz and Ortiz. Also the Chipper Jones panel.

CFiJ = killjoy.
as in... Ha ha CFiJ Pi$ $ed in your cheerios the minute you thought they were an amazing part of this nutritional breakfast.

I'd also love to see what's going on in the Cubs cartoon

(http://news.naver.com/sports/new/view.php?category=mlb&menu=cartoon&seq=64)

CFiJ = killjoy.

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.

Who's giving a medal a to Jose Vidro and what does the Sun Woo Kim- Tomo Ohka cartoon say?

Argue about adjectives all you want, but the guy obviously knows Major League Baseball better than the average fan, even here in the United States.

He has Danny Kolb throwing bowling balls and jokes about Charles Thomas being a "defensive catcher" at Coors, for crying out loud.

I laughed for a good five minutes after reading the Kendall/Wells translation. =P

Uh...I went to bed...I live in a different time zone, you know.

Zack Graincke is whipping, because his WHIP is suprisingly good, I guess.

The Orioles one...
Miguel Tejada, the Best Player. Jeter sliding into the second base, Tejada snorts "tackle, huh?"

Melvin Mora, he's great despite starting late. Newhan begs, "Please! What are you doing? You take away my position!" Mora says, "Set me free. I'm in groove."

Rodrigo Lopez is a "rollercoaster ace."

Brian Roberts does everything well, advancing runners, hit and run, stealing bases, etc. He's hanging like Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible, saying "It's a mission possible." Below him, Jerry Hairstone Jr. grumbles "Impossible to play because of you..."

Sidney Ponson looks like an animation character which is made in Japan and popular in Korea.

Rafael Palmeiro has declined, but his eyes are still good. He's trying magic glasses.

Ainsworth was an elite prospect, but he gets hit every time.

Smoltz brags, "I don't hesitate to throw a strike down the middle." Ortiz lament, "I don't hesitate, either, but I can't throw a strike." Someone yells, "Shut up, Russ!"

Chipper Jones drove in the most runs on the team, despite suffering his worst season.

Much obliged, impatton.

My inept transcription and Altavista's insane translation managed to come up with this:

2004, strongest shorts!!
Tejada: Tae it will grow? hus!
Jeter: Body Es!!
Arod: Under Oh.

To be late the boat fortune fellow compared to is the nothing island...
Newhan: Please!! You two transfers why yes us?!! This American of you ni inside awareness cco Ji this Ubs whom it counts it slept, Oh!!
Mora: Well! scull! ! Or the bell nine which it receives!

The roller course which returns it sprouts, su!
Lopez: Oh li!

It sends, his Aen lin, su the hair...
Workth cup accomplishment ability A+...
Roberts: America syen from green onion pul
Hairston: tye The green onion which is a difficulty and a departure for battle at minute pul

Neighborhood north...
Kicker 1: Inside Rae inside cumulation good bread very Hoong?!
Kicker 2: The real good bread it will be very and it will decrease and to know glow Rass it slept, Oh!! !
Ponson: Ing
<Sound Effects>: ppak ppak ppak

Only the inside of riding in advance still is healthy...
Palmeiro: When it is like that awareness.. it writes this eye-glasses...
Doctor: neyp To the long-sightedness wass it picks,! !

Only it comes up it does and the dust it is born but the jade El who hits li thu...
Ainsworth: cung Ul cung Ul
Thug: After after.. It comes..

OK, there's gotta be some new Primer cliches from that last post.

Ben Sheets holding back the Cardinals by himself is funny enough. Noticing another Brewer picking his nose and Grieve just lying there watching is hilarious.

Matt Clement wondering how the hell Maddux won 16 games while he only won 9.

This is the kind of stuff which is reasonably impressive. I mean, it doesn't take a genius to recognize that Matt Clement had a better ERA than Maddux last year and that ERA is more important than wins, but most sportswriters in the US don't grasp even simple concepts like that.

I think the funniest part is the Freddy Garcia one. At first, I don't know what it's talking about...
Anyways, don't you guys notice Garcia looks a lot like the Rock? On the panel, it writes "Do you smell what the Rock is cooking?" (of course, a little oddly translated in Korean.) And Garcia mocks the Rock's eyes... :-)

The Smoltz/Ortiz one is RDF. Thanks for translating, guys.

What's amazing to me is this guy obviously spent a lot of time making cartoons which can only be fully appreciated by people who both 1) speak Korean and 2) know quite a bit about MLB. That's pretty bizarre -- and unassailably cool.

Is it just Guy or does Dimitri Young play a small roll in a few of these? Like Young is his own inside joke? Funny stuff.

Also, could someone please translate the one with Young, Blalock and Teixeira where Teixeira is out of uniform hiding behind the leg of a T Rex.

Thanks.

#98: cheng,

re: Mike Sweeney

It's about Mike Sweeney's declining (batting) eyesight (BB/SO rate of 0.75)

Sweeney walks in to the physical and reads off the eye chart "4, 7, 2, 5 ... I really want to get on base!" and the doctor says "But this is where we measure height..."

HIJACK: Link demonstration for Jim Furtado.

Jim, you asked for an example in a thread. There are a couple up stream of this, but let me put together a single demonstration.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/batting?team=bos&season=2004&seasonType=3
LINK

First, please observe that if you take the text url, paste it into your address bar, and navigate to it, it will take you to the post season hitting stats for the 2004 Red Sox.

Second, observe that the LINK, which I submitted using the same URL, has been rewritten, and probably looks like: http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files?URL=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/batting?team=bos&season=2004&seasonType=3

So that much is working fine.

Click on the link, and observe that it takes you to the 2004 Red Sox regular season statistics. The address window may even indicate the address http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/teams/batting?team=bos

Observe that the season and seasonType arguments are missing.

IF you are savvy with HTTP, observe the HTTP response when the LINK is clicked - your webserver generates a 302 redirect (correct), with the new destination URL in the location header (correct), but the arguments [except for the first] have been stripped from the query string (incorrect).

My speculation is that you have some filters running to protect against comment spam and the like, and that this filter is stripping the extra variables.

My speculation is that you have some filters running to protect against comment spam and the like, and that this filter is stripping the extra variables.

Eureka! That's accidently right - I'll leave it as a puzzle for those into such things (and send the answer to Jim, of course, so he can decide what he wants to do about it).

Of course, if Naver allows deep linking, then we could just DO THIS, and we would never notice the bug in the URL rewrite.

via a braves blog

Here's the translation of the panel where Estrada is talking to Michael Barrett

Johnny Estrada
one tool player...
Barrett "Can't play defense, weak shoulders, no power, slow legs, only thing he has is making contact..."
Johnny "Still better than being mediocre at everything like you"

What about the Tim Wakefield cartoon? somebody help me out there.

I dunno, but this guys pretty hip. He shows Lowe in the red uni. IIRC, Lowe pitched in the red uni more than any other starter.

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My speculation is that you have some filters running to protect against comment spam and the like, and that this filter is stripping the extra variables.

Eureka! That's accidently right - I'll leave it as a puzzle for those into such things (and send the answer to Jim, of course, so he can decide what he wants to do about it).
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More likely is that the URL parser strips on "&" (ampersand) characters and/or question marks. Bottom line, either properly (RFC 1738) encode your redirected URLs (since they are in fact URL variables) or present them directly.

Richard at Pearly Gates has kindly pasted a complete translation of the Dodgers cartoon. Good stuff.

Hey. Hoon Choi's got new ones up for the new year! Can anyone give some help on the translations please?

Thanks!
xian