Bobby Valentine is my hero

when the Marines won the Japan Series in 2005, the city named a streat after him, the Lotte fast food chain made up a "Bobby Burger", he was in a video with a rock band, ended up in ads and TV shows all over the goddamn place, etc.  He gets to pretty much be the manager and take a hand in personnel decisions like a general manager for the Marines -- when they're trying to recruit draftees, Bobby  makes the trip down to Okinawa and hangs out with the kid and his family and friends... or goes to Taiwan, etc, etc.  Just the sort of stuff you don't see managers doing in America.

And of course, he's also pretty much become an ambassador for Japanese baseball in the last year or two now that the NPB exodus has renewed interest... it's a lot easier for these random media sources to interview him for a quote or two in English than to hire a translator or to figure out WHO to interview in Japan anyway.

the most racist country in Asia.

Unfortunately, populations in many east Asian countries have pretty racist attitudes, especially towards black people.

to admit that my memory suck; It's been some time since he managed the Mets.

I just remembered, probably wrongly, that he had leanings that way. Meaning that he would maybe play small ball if he had the players to do so.