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by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 24, 2009 6:58 PM PDT
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PrintSmiles! Genuine smiles! And not even a glimmer of an indication that he and his teammates share a mutual contempt!
As best as I can tell, there are three ways in which one may attempt to relate Ichiro's success with Japan to his career as an M:
1. Ichiro develops a taste for winning and dreams of playing for a more successful organization
2. Ichiro develops a taste for winning and dreams of carrying the Mariners to the biggest stage
3. Ichiro's appetite for victory is satiated by the WBC and he's okay with playing for a mediocre Major League team
I don't know which is closest to the truth, but even if it's #1, the fact of the matter is that Ichiro's trapped here and he's never getting out, so my recommendation to you is to set aside any concerns you may have regarding Ichiro's feelings towards Seattle and celebrate his complete and utter awesomeness. Last night he delivered maybe the biggest hit of his career, and one of the most significant hits in the history of Japanese baseball. Ichiro drove his team to victory, and those smiles - he earned those smiles. Watching Ichiro humanize himself the way he did after the final out only makes me hope that much more that someday he's able to be that happy as a Mariner. More than anybody else, he deserves it.
Go Ichiro. You may not have had the best tournament as a whole, but your performance in the title game could not possibly have been more vintage you. Way to go, little dude.
My favorite picture of the bunch has to be this one:
The guy on the left gets an A for effort but an F for execution. And I like how the people in the back are just hanging out while Ichiro gets the champagning of a lifetime. Half the people in that clubhouse would probably get drunk just by wearing his t-shirt.
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Ichiro!
Man you get one chance to champagne him and only two people are doing it this is once in a lifetime opportunity unless Ichiro is selfish and has parties everyday at home where he has people pour champagne all over him…
You got slurved bitch.
What a distinctly Japanese picture.
There are no good individual basketball statistics.
54!
by joof on Mar 24, 2009 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
This pleases me like nothing else
This is as it should be. Ichiro deserves championships.
I was almost in tears after the game, and it is because of Ichiro!'s PA.
It was a great game. The tention built until it was electric, even in my little apt.
I want that so much for the Mariners. I want them to make it to the World Series and have a moment like that. Seriously, I know how amazing that moment will be now. As a fan, I believe it will come someday. I hope it comes while Ichiro is part of the team.
What a beautiful mess
this is.
Why would I watch Transformers when I can play with them at my house?
by .Taylor on Mar 24, 2009 8:49 PM PDT reply actions
Ichiro was just hungry
And wanted to go home and get something to eat, so he got a hit and won the WBC.
meanwhile, Bud is happy to give an award to a major leaguer that isn’t using steroids
(p.s. ichiro is the mf-ing MAN)
I'm not so sure about this:
And not even a glimmer of an indication that he and his teammates share a mutual contempt!
It’s subtle, but where the hell is Johjima? Not one picture of them together. I went through Johjima’s photo gallery (all of 16 pictures) and this is the only one I found with them kind of together:
I mean, look at Ichiro. He’s got this annoyed expression and he must be thinking, as Johjima’s eyes light up grabbing the trophy, “Let go of my fucking trophy you piece of shit; always crashing my party.”
I know what it is. Johjima must be the cancer in the clubhouse! Pitchers don’t want to work with him. Silva confuses Johjima with Ichiro; because, you know, all Asians look the same(!). In fact, everyone confuses Johjima with Ichiro. And the clubhouse builds up this disdain toward Ichiro because of Johjima. The clubhouse cancer has to be Johjima! I can’t believe we didn’t connect the dots before!
In all seriousness, I would love someday to see Ichiro do this with the Mariners after winning the World Series. Ichiro is a rock star in Japan and you know he hooked up with like 10 women that night that he handpicked out of the crowd. We need to build up his taste for American women, specifically in the Seattle area. If we can do this, I am sure Ichiro will develop that taste for winning and carry the Mariners to the biggest stage.
And it might not hurt to “take care” of Johjima while we are at it.
American women in the Seattle area are Japanese women
by Jeff Sullivan on Mar 24, 2009 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe we need to replace the WaMu sign behind Ichiro with a beer ad?
Might be a good reminder he has this to look forward to:
You would have had to take a picture of the tv screen
But at the end of the game, Joh and Ichiro were among the first to hug each other on the field, and then they both turned toward the camera with their arms on each other’s shoulders. I wish I had saved it on my DVR
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
by tootthekazoo on Mar 25, 2009 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Ichiro
Apparently he also said something about almost having an orgasm, but it was edited out of the write-ups afterward.
I think it is time there is a dedicated sidebar area for Ichiro quotes and gifs.
Raul has been enshrined and his defensive blunders are not 1/10th as awesome as Ichiro.
Ichiro
on playing in the next WBC, in 2013: “That’s four years from now. I don’t even know if I’m going to be alive four years from now.”
by lemonverbena on Mar 25, 2009 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions
"I’ve got it, you know. God descended on me,"
Headline:Ichiro steals God’s mojo, reveals secret of awesomness.
You can't hide from the omnipresent eye.
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