I’ve always thought Jose Melendez’s “Keys to the Game” to be one of the most entertaining parts of the Sons of Sam Horn Game Threads, particularly when he riffs on interesting tangents. Here he weighs in on the meaning of Ichiro, specifically as an Asian athletic role model. I guess personally I’ve never seen Ichiro as a role model, but then coming from Singapore there’s quite a stark separation between the Asian ethnicities, and so the Japanese are really seen as coming from a different ethnic group. But I do like the increasing international flavour of MLB. I always get a big kick out of the fact that Bruce Chen is Panamanian. (1.73 ERA. Why can’t we get players like him? Oh wait. Heh.) Throws people’s assumptions about links between nationality and ethnicity into wack, which is fine for someone like me who has Jamaican cousins. Bruce Chen, Ramiro Mendoza, Mariano Rivera. That’s a pretty decent pitching staff to throw into the World Cup.
The meaning of Ichiro
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