quick hit

-Howard Ulman, from the AP mails it in here. I'm not going to dissect the whole thing. But check out the title:

Japanese pitcher draws plenty of attention.

Thanks for making that crystal. The rest of the article is factually correct, despite the information being two weeks to four months old. Did he really wait until two days ago to publish all this dribble?

Give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it's a general article for AP use, meant to edumacate the non-obsessed baseball masses. But Ulman seems to focus on New England area related sports. I feel a thousand monkeys with typewriters unpaid blogger could do the same job.