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Ex-Yankees, Marines Irabu arrested for alleged assault

Crime Aug. 20, 2008 - 03:26PM JST ( 23 )

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northlondonAug. 20, 2008 - 04:57PM JST

He's a big bloke (and probably even bigger now he is retired). You wouldn't want a slap from him.
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romulus3Aug. 20, 2008 - 05:46PM JST

its irresponsible to serve 20 mugs of beer to a patron. of course things can get out of hand after that many. does Japan have any laws on this? Most countries refuse drunks service.
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nisegaijinAug. 20, 2008 - 05:47PM JST

if he lives in California why is he arrested in osaka?
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tokyotomAug. 20, 2008 - 06:28PM JST

he was always hot tempered, the antithesis of Nomo
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helloklittyAug. 20, 2008 - 06:34PM JST

if he lives in California why is he arrested in osaka?

The hissy fit was thrown in Osaka.

Like Nomo, he has chosen to live in the U.S. for privacy and to get an American education for his children. He has a good life with his wife and two children according to his agent. He lives in Rancho Palos Verdes which has horse trails along many of its streets.
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mindyouAug. 20, 2008 - 07:03PM JST

20 mugs of beer! What a bad ass!
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chardk1Aug. 20, 2008 - 07:09PM JST

I thought it was funny that in the Japanese news, it was reported that Irabu was "mushoku" (unemployed). He's not unemployed you idiots, he's rich biyatch!
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mindyouAug. 20, 2008 - 08:00PM JST

If he drinks like he did in Osaka mark my words! He will go broke before Christmas and end up like Mike Tyson but he still will be a bad ass.
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KaptainKichigaiAug. 20, 2008 - 08:30PM JST

20 "mugs" of beer? or 20 Japanese glasses of beer? which together amount to about 5 beers. If they were draft beers poured in Japan , they were 35 percent foam!
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eresayAug. 20, 2008 - 10:16PM JST

For those of us in the know, we remember a night all too well when he tore apart a bar in LA.
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lipscombeAug. 20, 2008 - 11:01PM JST

yeah kaptainkichigai is right, 20 'mugs' of beer in Japan equals about 5 pints once you get past the huge head they invariably put on a draft beer
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nandakandamandaAug. 20, 2008 - 11:52PM JST

ビールを中ジョッキ２０杯飲んだ he said.

(Not glasses, and not the Dai-jokki, but the medium Chu-jokki, about 400-500ml. So, what? 7-10 litres/liters... depending on how much head.)
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Pukey2Aug. 21, 2008 - 12:00AM JST

I can't even drink 20 mugs of water! The guy must have a big stomach. Doesn't he have a history of drinking problems?
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mindyouAug. 21, 2008 - 12:04AM JST

If you drink 20 beers. It is 20 half liters. Which means Irabu drank 10 liters of beer. And then attacked the bar tender because his visa did not work. oooo. What a bad ass. Assuming a 中ジョッキ costs 700 yen. THats 1man4thousand. Plus table charge and some food and if it was a hostess bar. Mark my words. Irabu will go broke and end up in jail! Its his father's fault. If you are reading this Irabu's dad. Japanese are human beings too. How could you leave your son like you did? How could you?
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boobugAug. 21, 2008 - 12:06AM JST

"The guy must have a big stomach."

this is the same guy that was labled "a fat toad" by Yankee owner George Steinbrenner. How appropriate.
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DXXJPAug. 21, 2008 - 12:28AM JST

What do you mean big "stomach". Men have a hose to drain with, this guy probably squats.
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mindyouAug. 21, 2008 - 01:40AM JST

right.
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boobugAug. 21, 2008 - 06:41AM JST

northlondon,

"Japan are the current World Baseball Classic Champions. Like it or not, that makes them default world champions until this Olympics is through"

Wrong ! The WBC winner does not lay claim to the "world champion" title. Organizers of the event were very clear that the WBC was nothing more than a world-wide baseball tournement. Personally I would give more credence to the World Baseball Championships played in Taiwan and won by the USA. That tournement had teams that were actually "trying" to win, and not just "avoid" injury. The WBC was a nice exhibition, but the timing and format was all experimental. Too bad the Japanese, and some of it's misguided fans, still haven't realised this. Maybe thats what Irabu was going off about, maybe he finally got it as he watched Japans current group of Olympians fall on their collective faces.
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ThonTaddeoAug. 21, 2008 - 10:20PM JST

Mindyou, the English lad was right to argue with you -- only in Norway and Sweden is the ridiculously-long 10-kilometer "mil" in use.

Just about everywhere else, the "normal" mile is 1609.344 meters, or 5280 feet, which is quite close to the original Roman distance of 5000 feet.

If the Englishman started telling you that it was 1000 ri (里) from Tokyo to Osaka, would you argue with him? A Japanese ri is close to 4 km, but not in China.