This is the view of the world from the eyes of a Sugar Islander. It talks about Anime, Boxing, Manny Pacquiao, Team Pilipinas and Fiba Basketball. It also covers Naruto and Bleach comic books. However, serious Asian society issues and Racism against Asians, Asian achievers in Sports are also discussed. Advocacies are carried on and never forgotten.
In a supreme example of a jealous coward, some clubhouse personnel has been spreading ugly rumors towards Ichiro on the press but not when the nihonjin is around. Rumor has it one of Ichiro Suzuki's "team mate" reportedly wants the "knock out" the Japanese 200-hit a year player. Pitcher JJ Putz and Marines Manager denied there ever was a confrontation.
The root of this conflict lies on the supposed belief of some players that Ichiro is more concerned on getting hits and padding his hits record than winning (Mariners had another 100-loss season! Baseball is a 120-game season) which doesn't make sense since to win a team needs to score more runs than the opposition. This is nothing but petty jealously. Worse the culprit has been hiding under the press' skirts and won't identify himself. Coward.
Ichiro sssssshh is a punk...sssh. He wants to score more runs for the team. What a selfish punk
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"It's hard to comprehend that someone is looking at 200-plus hits and it's not helping the ballclub," he said. "It's seventh-grade mentality. It's pettiness, jealousy, pointing fingers, deflecting responsibility, lack of accountability, lack of character. People takes shots at people in the paper. You get a feeling for who those people are and you try to eliminate those people." Riggleman told the Associated Press.
The rats have been warned. If this is true, then speak up!!! Yeah I thought so...rat.
I hope Ichiro moves to better teams like the Red Sox, Yankees, White Sox or any team with a chance of winning the World Series.I hate to be on a team with rats.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The world's top Nazi-hunter said Thursday he's made progress in finding 94-year-old "Doctor Death," a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as they died and who may have been living for decades in Argentina or Chile.
Efraim Zuroff, head of the Israeli branch of the SimonWiesenthalCenter, told a news conference that his mission to the southern reaches of the Americas led him to at least four people who claim to have seen Aribert Heim in the past 45 day.
Heim was indicted in Germany after World War II on charges he murdered hundreds of inmates at the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941. The Wiesenthal center says he injected the corrosive poison phenol directly into the hearts of many and used "other torturous killing method
The South American probe is part of the Jewish human rights organization's "Operation: Last Chance" — an effort to bring aging war criminals to justice before they die. If alive, Heim would be 94.
Answering critics who say Heim's age undermines the validity of the hunt, Zuroff said to "keep in mind what he did when was a very young person."
"If we put a limit on age, in a practical sense that means we're saying you can get away with genocide, which is morally outrageous," he added...
There should be no rest for the guilty! The mental torture Heim's is now suffering must have reminded him of his victims' agony when he inflicted cruel death to them. If the Israelis were Filipinos, some people would have given him a pardon for humanitarian reasons (advanced age) to show the world that they are compassionate and morally upright. No justice no closure. It is so easy for them to do that because they weren't the ones victimized.
The emo people are being persecuted worldwide (don't laugh) even in the Philippines. Their lifestyle, clothing and music are being challenged by some bigots who have mental problems. You can see that in every comment box of every emo band in Youtube. Though largely ignored and dismissed this hatred has sprung in the most outrageous manner in Mexico! Punks and metal heads are the main culprits. The news is so unreal. At first I thought it was a joke but the video proved it wasn’t. Unfortunately, the main reason for this anti-emo feeling is homosexuality. Most Mexicans identify emo subculture to homosexuality! Talk about the dangerous mixture of hatred and ignorance! Read on:
Riot police have taken to the streets of several cities in Mexico to ... defend emo kids?
The next week, shaggy-haired emo teenagers were harassed again by punks and rockabillys in the capital, prompting police protection and a segment on the TV news. Most recently, a Mexican newspaper reported that metal heads and gangsters have warned Tijuana's emo kids to stay away from the town's fair next month.
But the so-called emos are organizing, too. Last week, they demonstrated against the violence, pictured above, and Wednesday some met with police in Mexico City.
"They're organizing to defend their right to be emo," wrote Daniel Hernandez of LA Weekly on his personal blog, which has provided stellar coverage of the whole affair.
Music-based subcultures have permeated Mexico's major cities for decades, fueled by constant migration from rural cities. But only in the past year have emos begun to make their presence felt in the streets. In response, many of the established so-called tribus urbanas like punks and metalheads are responding with violence. The emo-punk battles are reminiscent of earlier subculture fights among various factions, like the Hell's Angels fighting hippies at the Altamont Music Festival or the Mods taking on the Rockers.
But while videos of Mexican teenagers with pompadours advancing on equally baby-faced emo rockers seem like scenes from a south-of-the-border version of John Waters' Crybaby, there are ugly undercurrents to the story.
First, by some accounts, the emo subculture is identified with homosexuality in Mexico. As Mexico City youth worker Victor Mendoza told Time.com: "At the core of this is the homophobic issue. The other arguments are just window dressing for that."
Gustavo Arellano, the author of Ask a Mexican and an editor at OC Weekly, said that the sexual ambiguities cultivated by emo fashion helped set the group up for targeting by more macho groups.
"What do you do when you are confronted with a question mark about sexuality in Mexico?" Arellano said. "You beat it up."
Whatever happened to respect in Mexico? The problem with some people is that they generalized all emos as homos. This happens when hate is being tolerated. Any signs of hatred should be crushed as early as possible.