Taiwan's Yankee Pitcher: Wang Chien-Ming Makes Sports History
Yes, I know, Taiwan-born Wang Chien-Ming plays baseball for the New York Yankees. I still will blog about him -- just don't tell the rabid Boston Red Sox fanatics who live up here, or else they will surely hunt me down as a "sports traitor." Don't believe me? You have no idea how bad the Boston Red Sox-versus-New York Yankees sports hatred goes!
(Incidentally, it seems that Red Sox fans hate the Yankees with total venom. Yet in my (limited) experience, Yankees fans don't seem to care quite so much about the Sox. Of course, this could be part of the entire rivalry. Maybe the Yanks' indifference says: "You're not important enough for me to hate anyway. We're better and we know it." At least one Red Sox fan has ranted to me about how arrogant Yankees are -- "They think they are the center of the universe!" Ah, sports rivalries. So funny.)
Anyway, Wang is doing well. He's just been asked to play in the Yankees' opening playoff game, and one Taiwanese paper notes that he made Asian baseball history. Wang's 19th win breaks the preious record of 18 wins set in 2000 by a South Korean player. Here are some of Wang's numbers .
Cool!