Wednesday February 15, 2012

Kreza23's past comments

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    Kreza23

    Branded - I'm no goalie, but you're supposed to hug the post when the puck is behind or at the side of your net. Miller was positioned well for that goal, he was square to the shooter and was covering a lot of net. Crosby just shot it sooner than he expected and he wasn't completely set.

    Posted in: Canada beats U.S. 3-2 in overtime to claim ice hockey gold

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    Kreza23

    xpompey8 - "USA will be a dominant force in 2014. Just look at the Chicago Blackhawks right now - an amazing group of young talented players who will bring them the Stanley Cup in due time."

    What do the Blackhawks have to do with anything? They're a great team, but they have about two American players on the entire team, and only one of them was on the Team USA roster. Patrick Kane is great, but Team Canada had 3 members of the Blackhawks (Toews, Seabrook and Keith) on their team.

    Posted in: Canada beats U.S. 3-2 in overtime to claim ice hockey gold

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    Kreza23

    Branded - "Cover yer near"???? What are you on about? The puck went five-hole.

    Posted in: Canada beats U.S. 3-2 in overtime to claim ice hockey gold

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    Kreza23

    A little late, but just wanted to give a big "Hell yeah!!!" to the boys in red and white. I got up at 5 to watch the game, and had to get to work by 8:30, so I was dreading the game going to overtime because of time constraints, and was dreading a penalty shootout even more, because there would have been no way I could've watched it and made it to work on time. Thank goodness for Sidney Crosby for not only winning it for Canada, but also for allowing me to get out the door just in the nick of time.

    And congrats to the U.S. as well for a hard-fought game and tournament. Your speed was scary, and Patrick Kane had me sweating bullets every time he touched the puck. What a great game, and what a great tournament overall for hockey!

    Posted in: Canada beats U.S. 3-2 in overtime to claim ice hockey gold

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    Kreza23

    smithinjapan - I think you're correct in voicing concerns about the Japanese media, but in my opinion, you're a little off in your assessment. It's not like the media blames these athletes for "failures", in fact, seeing footage of medal winners over and over again will tell you that it's the exact opposite. They eat that stuff up (as they should) and celebrate any medals they receive.

    The questioning of Mao after her performance, which I was also disgusted with, has nothing to do with disappointment from the media, but rather the infatuation of having an athlete cry on television because it's believed to add drama. You can see it in other interviews, where the athlete doesn't cry, but the interviewer tries his/her (usually his) best to trigger the tears by basically asking the same thing in a number of different ways. I defend Japanese media on this site quite often, because I think there is a lot of unfair criticism from foreigners because they are misinterpreting what they hear on TV, but an absolute pet peeve of mine is how poor the quality of questions are after a sporting event. Nakata was a real jerk to journalists in Japan after he went to Italy, but without knowing him at all, I would venture to guess that it was because he realized how stupid a lot of the questions he was being asked were, and he felt that it was an insult to his level of intelligence. Sometimes, the athletes are just too nice and respond to the crap they're being asked.

    Posted in: Mixed emotions for Japan after women's team pursuit silver

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    paulinusa - "That said, love him or hate him, how many of you were aware of short track skating until he came along."

    Oh gimme a break. Despite what you may think, the entire world doesn't revolve around America and it's athletes. I, as well as many others, were well aware of short-track speed skating long before he became enemy number one in South Korea. I'm sure he did a lot to make it more popular in the States, and I respect all of his achievements, but that comment is ignorance at it's worst.

    Posted in: Ohno earns bronze in relay, disqualified in 500 in wild night of short track

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    Kreza23

    okapake - This isn't only directed at you, as there are MANY others making the same claim, but show me an article or clip where the Japanese media has GUARANTEED a medal. I watch quite a bit of TV, and I read quite a bit as well, but I have never seen a guarantee of any sort. They may call some of their athletes "medal hopefuls" which is commonplace in other countries as well, but no guarantees. I really question the Japanese proficiency of a lot of the people making these claims on JT, as I think there is a lot being lost in translation that is putting a negative slant on your views. I'm not trying to put anyone down if you don't understand a lot of Japanese, I'm just saying that if you're gonna mock something, you should be sure that your claims are correct.

    Anyways, these girls have impressed me. They've shown that they're capable of playing with some of the best, like narrowly losing to Canada, but you could see from the beginning of this game that they were all a little off.

    Posted in: Japan dealt severe blow in bid for last 4 in curling

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    Kreza23

    pinch hitter - A team has to set an order (from 1-9) for their hitters. A pinch hitter is someone who is substituted for a player in the original 9 hitters. Kawakami, I assume, would've been set to hit 9th in the order, but was replaced by somebody else to hit for him (a pinch hitter).

    day to day - When a player is hurt (but it isn't a severe injury), and the team chooses to decide whether the player is fit to play the next day. If not, they'll decide again the day after that, etc. They're observing whether an injury would prevent a player from playing on a day-to-day basis.

    clubhouse - Is the change room area, locker room area, whatever you want to call it, for the players.

    Posted in: Braves' Kawakami leaves after getting hit by liner

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    Kreza23

    "Yao, at 7-foot-6, is the tallest active NBA player along with Shawn Bradley."

    Shawn Bradley hasn't been in the league for years.

    Posted in: China's Sun shining in Japanese basketball league

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    Kreza23

    Blue Tiger - My apologies. I just looked at the clip again, and it's showing the Korean players lining up after they get their medals, and Japan waiting their turn to receive theirs. Not after the entire Korean team received their medals. My mistake.

    Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title

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    Kreza23

    Blue Tiger - For goodness sakes. Why don't you talk to Bobbafett about the line up. He/she gave Team Korea grief about it. I didn't. I don't know why "proof positive" was in quotes, because I never said that. I couldn't find the TV broadcast of it, so I gave you that link which was the best I could find without spending a lot of time doing it. And I didn't say it was a "Congrats line-up" either. After getting their medals, they each lined up on their respective baselines. That clip was after Korea got their medals, and the Japanese players were getting waiting to get theirs.

    As for Jojima. WHERE in my first comment did I imply he was being sportsmanlike? All I've said from the beginning is that he didn't like the call, so he protested it. He deservedly got thrown out for the manner he did it in. End of story.

    "Etiehr defend Jojima for being professional and sportsmanlike or accuse him for being a spoiled brat who didn't get a call he felt he was supposed to get."

    Are there no other options? Love him or hate him? You said he should've been tossed from the entire tournament, and that's what I disagreed with you about. He disagreed with a call and he showed that. But he didn't get up in the face of the umpire like many others have, and he didn't take a "hissy fit" and go back to the dugout and throw the Gatorade cooler around like others have. And even then, I don't think it would've meant he'd get thrown out of the entire tournament. Do you follow baseball? Is this not something you've seen before? Why are you making such a fuss about this Jojima incident? Basically what I'm saying here is, if we were to put this into soccer/football terms, you're saying he deserved a red card, I say yellow was fair, but for some reason you're asking me to choose between a red card or no card at all. I don't get it.

    Really, I don't remember ever seeing teams line up to shake each other's hands after a professional game, but if you say it happens, can you find me a clip? And while you're at it, can you find a clip of a World Series win and the teams lining up before any celebration occurs? Honestly, if you can find one, I am completely willing to admit that I was wrong, but I do think that you're being unreasonable about Japan celebrating without shaking hands with the Korean team first. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Team Korea was made up of players in Korea's professional baseball league, weren't they? I don't think their team was made up of " a LOT of amateur players".

    I have no doubt that Japan feels like they deserved to win this tournament, but I don't know why you insist that they "look down their noses at the competition in (a.) Asia, and now (b.) the rest of the world." I'm not sure, but I really do think you're reading into things a little too much here.

    Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title

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    Kreza23

    smithinjapan - I appreciate your comments. But I really don't know where you've gotten the idea that I've said anything to disrespect Team Korea. Admittedly, I've been here trying to disprove that Japan is the root of all evil, so perhaps that's where you've misinterpreted me, but if you look at my comments, not a single negative comment was directed towards Korea. Not one.

    "They definitely said 'Yappari'. I don't really think it's a big deal at all... in fact, I never mentioned it until some posters (nudge) decided to come on and complain about bad plays and calls, or how 'unsportsman-like' some teams can be, etc."

    Is that nudge directed towards me? Because I've said from the beginning that there were questionable calls but that they went both ways and never complained about that. And how does what a commentator says have anything to do with how unsportsman-like a team is or isn't? I agree with a lot of what you say, and respect your opinion, but I continued to be puzzled at some of what you say to me. I think you're grouping me in with some other posters, because you keep accusing me of saying things that I haven't.

    Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title

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    Bluetiger - Like I said, it wasn't me who originally brought this line up thing, so I don't know why you insist on me giving you proof, but here you go. Copy and paste this into youtube. WBC 2009 メダル授与. There is your line up.

    When did I change my tune about Jojima? Here's what I said in my first post to you.

    "And Jojima didn't have a hissy fit. He put his bat down and left it there. He was pissed off, and he showed it (very calmly). And he got thrown out of the game. Nothing more, nothing less. People argue calls in baseball all the time. That's not really much of an incident."

    Here's the second one.

    "Jojima laying the bat down was not sportsmanlike. I didn't disagree with that. But you're reading far too much into that, and you said that he should've been banned from the rest of the tournament, which is ludicrous. This may just be a matter of semantics, but to me, putting the bat down (not even throwing it) and walking away doesn't equal a "hissy fit". I don't think that had anything to do with a sense of "entitlement", and even less to do with the fact that they were playing Korea. Just protesting a call. He got thrown out of the game, and that's the end of that."

    I think I'm being very consistent there. I don't know what you found to be different in both of those comments. But again, this is a matter of semantics, but I wouldn't consider muttering to oneself a hissy fit anyways. Whatever, what I'm saying here is that you're making a big fuss over absolutely nothing. I haven't seen anybody else here support your claim that Jojima should've been thrown out of the tournament for that. He got thrown out of the game, which I said was deserved, and that should be the end of it.

    "Anyone also knows that before you line up, after a baseball game, and congratulate your own team, your winning team libnes up and walks across the field to congratulate the losing team on a good effort. Haven't YOU ever seen that (obviously not)?"

    After any professional baseball game, after the game, players line up and the bench players line up while the starters go down the line and they each shake hands or give high fives. At least that's how it is during the regular season. After winning game four of the World Series (or whatever championship you are playing for), you go ballistic and everybody runs to the pitcher's mound and goes nuts. I didn't say the same rules applied for volleyball. Maybe at Koshien where there is a long tradition and set rules, but watch a professional game and tell me if you ever see that. Especially after a championship win? No way. I could care less if you don't believe that I played high school sports, but we certainly didn't line up right after winning our championship games.

    Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title

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    Kreza23

    smithinjapan - OK, you've changed when the commentators said "Yappari Samurai Japan" in your posts, unless by "trying to steal second", you mean when the guy tried to stretch a single into a double. If that is the case, it again tells me you don't know baseball very well, which is fine, no problem.

    And maybe they did say "Yappari...", I don't know, I'm not gonna check on that, but even if they did, I don't see what the big deal with that is. It's just showing some faith in their players. The "doushiyou kana?" though, I'm willing to bet that they didn't say that, and that you misheard it. It doesn't make any sense. I remember the "Seifu to omotteita ga..." from Kiyohara, and the "hmmmmmm", and there is nothing wrong with that. I agree that there were questionable calls going both ways, and I've never said anything to suggest otherwise. And the commentators voiced their opinion on that particular call, but there is nothing wrong with that. But like I said, "doushiyou kana?" is a very strange comment to make there, and goes back to my point that people mishear or misinterpret things and give media unwarranted grief sometimes (although there are many times where it is deserved as well).

    Anyways, it was a fun tournament, and I hope it grows to be an even bigger event the next time.

    Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title

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    Kreza23

    thorgrimfile and mecchasuki - Thank you for your posts. Good points from both of you.

    Blue Tiger - "that turning of the back thing seems to have been a major offense in the eyes of the J-media. Amazing that I could find that offense absolutely NOWHERE on the internet. Big offense obviously."

    I just want to clarify further on that point. I didn't bring this up originally, and I didn't make a big fuss out of it either. You were answering somebody else, and you countered that Japan should've gone right over to the Korean players to shake hands after the last out. I simply said that isn't the norm in baseball, and told you when this back turning incident occurred because you didn't seem to know.

    Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title

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    smithinjapan - "The thing about Kreza is he shows up when Japan wins, and hides when they lose, and can't praise another team except Japan if his life depended on it -- which makes him fall exactly into the category you name when talking about Japanese being unable to congratulate any of the Korean players whatsoever"

    After both of Japan's losses to Korea, I came on here and congratulated them. You can click on my name and see that for yourself. And the commentators never said "YAPPARI, SAMURAI JAPAN! YAPPARI!" after that play, nor did they say "Doushiou, kana? Hountou ni seifu to omotteita ga, doushiyou kana?!" Why would they say "Doushiou, kana?" What would they be able to do about it? I'm not sure how good your Japanese is, but it seems that you're hearing what you want to hear.

    Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title

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    Kreza23

    Bluetiger - I have listened to the comments. Give me one exact quote to support what you claim. On the contrary, I thought Hoshino was a bone-head at the Olympics and was hoping for a player to have the guts to call him out, but obviously that never happened.

    Jojima laying the bat down was not sportsmanlike. I didn't disagree with that. But you're reading far too much into that, and you said that he should've been banned from the rest of the tournament, which is ludicrous. This may just be a matter of semantics, but to me, putting the bat down (not even throwing it) and walking away doesn't equal a "hissy fit". I don't think that had anything to do with a sense of "entitlement", and even less to do with the fact that they were playing Korea. Just protesting a call. He got thrown out of the game, and that's the end of that.

    "And what line-up? When?" - The teams lined up after the celebration, the Korean team on the first base line after they accepted their medals, and the Japanese team on the third base line. Obviously you missed that.

    "Finally, you've obviously neverp layed any knd of organized sport at any level." - Was captain of my high school baseball team and volleyball teams. Care to make any more assumptions? In baseball, you line up and shake hands with your own teammates. Have you not seen that?

    Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title

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    Blue Tiger - "(1.) The Japanese Media will be playing this and will flaunt their own arrogance to the rest of the world (particularly when it comes to baseball), writing stories that tell how "Samurai" Japan scripted their own path to the Championship Podium, giving little to no credit to Team Korea (who beat the Champs twice), nor any other team that played well or closely in matches and games with Team Japan (honest, I'd have liked to see Team Venezuela take on "Samurai" Japan)."

    The media will enjoy this, but flaunt it to the rest of the world? How so? And I think a lot of Japantoday posters give the media here a lot of flack (and this doesn't necessarily mean you Blue Tiger), but the majority of times it's misinterpreted. I'm definitely not a fan of the media here, but there is a lot of bashing here from posters who understand maybe half of what is said on TV. And the commentators were full of praise of the Korean players today throughout the entire game.

    "(2.) Is it just me, or does it seem like every time Japan plays a baseball match on the international stage, they seem to think it is their "right" to win, and anyone or anything that keeps them from winning is a fluke at best or a joke at worst? There just seems to be this expectation that, yes, Team Japan will win, and the opposition will roll-over and play doormat for them, and anyone or anything that doesn't gets criticized by not only the media, but dismissed by the J-Team's players."

    I don't know if it's just you, but it isn't true. They don't hold back on showing love for their players, but I don't sense that expectation at all when they're playing top teams such as Korea, Cuba, or the US. In fact, against teams like the U.S., if anything, there's an inferiority complex. The oohs and aahhs when David Wright threw a guy out at first without taking a step were indicative of that. What exactly have you heard that tells you that the media feels it's Japan's right to win? They may expect to beat the lower tier teams, but against the good teams, I don't see any of the attitude you talk about.

    And Jojima didn't have a hissy fit. He put his bat down and left it there. He was pissed off, and he showed it (very calmly). And he got thrown out of the game. Nothing more, nothing less. People argue calls in baseball all the time. That's not really much of an incident.

    And have you ever seen a team in baseball win a championship and run right over to the opposition to shake hands? No, because that never happens. Everybody runs to the pitcher's mound to celebrate. That's baseball tradition. The turning of the back happened afterwards when the teams lined up on the baselines.

    Japan is very aware that the Korean baseball team is good. They won't think that "they should dominate Asia," and they didn't believe that they'd "win it in a walk." I'm not sure what you expect them to do or say, but Japan won this tournament, but Korea put up a great show. I think you're really reading into things a little too much.

    Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title

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    TheHambugler - What difference does it make if a player has a major injury in the WBC, rather than if they had one during a regular season game? I'm not sure a lot of owners would choose not to sign someone because they've played in the WBC before.

    Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title

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    Kreza23

    Congratulations Japan! Fantastic game! I'm absolutely exhausted from watching that marathon of a roller coaster.

    some14some - "I will not say if poor umpiring helped Iwakuma but it did hurt Korean Batting also Japan could have decided much earlier (how many LOB?) instead of going into extra inning, in that sense it was boring game."

    There were some questionable calls on both sides I thought, but I don't think there was any favoritism either way. But how could you call this game boring??? I think you were rooting for Korea, judging by your comments, but you found it boring that Japan left a lot of runners on base? You found it boring because it went in to extra innings? Did you find it boring seeing the momentum of the game go back and forth? Calling this game boring is just mind-boggling to me, unless you're not into baseball at all, at which point I would have to question why you watched in the first place.

    Posted in: Ichiro delivers as Japan beats South Korea 5-3 to win WBC title

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