NPB Roundup: Kleenex Stadium Miyagi?

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On Tuesday, Daisuke Matsuzaka went to play golf with Ryo Ishikawa. I can't really think of a good way to explain this to people who aren't up on Japanese sports and media, but Ishikawa is basically a 16-year-old kid who is currently practically THE face of the golfing world in Japan. They call him "Hanikami Oji", which means "bashful prince". He's very shy and mature, and is also on the news practically every day, even if it's just something like "Ishikawa Ryo goes to play golf with his siblings" or "Ishikawa Ryo takes off his shoes and goes into the water to get a golf ball" or whatever. He's popular. He's cute. He's sweet. And the idea of putting Baseball's Golden Boy and Golf's Golden Boy together in one places makes me imagine an explosion of camera flashes. It'd be kind of like if you had Roger Clemens and Tiger Woods get together to play golf... back in 1991 or so.

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