Month: April 2026

Been a rough year for Kim Hye-song already

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Prior to the season in the WBC, Kim had to be a part of the Team Korea that sure, finally managed to get out of groups for the first time in an eternity, but they also took some embarrassing losses to Japan and Taiwan.  Capped off by getting mercy-rule walked-off on by the Dominican Republic to end their run.

Comes back to the United States to finish up Spring Training, only to be told that despite hitting .407 with an OPS of .967, he is being sent down to start the season in the minor leagues, citing his WBC commitment taking away from a proper preseason preparation regimen.  I didn’t really say anything over social media platforms because I frankly didn’t want to deal with the likely outrage of Dodgers fans, racist weebs and all other pleebs of the internet, but I found it suspicious that Kim would get such rationale as justification to send him to the minors, despite the fact that all of his Japanese teammates were in the exact same boat, and weren’t getting demoted, but that I suppose it shouldn’t be a surprise to see a team full of Japanese players and constantly on the country of Japan’s dick 25/8 sending their lone Korean teammate away. 

Because it’s one of those things that nobody that isn’t Korean would really understand, and it wasn’t worth the aggravation of triggering the ire of the internet, but it’s definitely something that nobody would be willing to admit to probably being the case.

Anyway, Kim dominates Triple-A because it’s too easy for the caliber of player he is, in spite of the limited Spring Training, hitting .346 with an OPS of .822, and at the very first injury reported to the Dodgers, he’s immediately called back up, where he’s already hitting .308 with a .796 OPS.

And six games in is all it takes for Kim to be given the all look same treatment, and be mistaken for one of his more famous Japanese teammates, as SNY’s Gary Cohen states “Yamamoto looking on” when the camera panned to Kim watching in the dugout.

Like I said, it’s slights like these that nobody who isn’t Korean would really understand just how aggravating they can be, and why Koreans like me have these chips on our shoulders when it comes to rolling our eyes at the insufferably weeb-ey excessive praise for anything Japan that Weeb-ey America is so subject to falling for.

The tiny, in all fairness, factor to this is the fact that it was from the visiting team’s broadcast, and seeing as how the Mets haven’t had a Korean player since like Koo Dae-Sung, they’re less educated when it comes to disambiguation between Asians, but if I had to put money on it, I can’t imagine that this racist bungling of telling Asians apart hasn’t happened among Dodgers media either.

But the point remains it happened, it’s embarrassing for those who were apart of it, from Cohen, as well as the cameraman who put the camera on Kim after being prompted by discussions of Yamamoto.  And like most incidents that are insensitive towards Koreans and Asians in general, the backlash for this will be vastly less severe, acknowledged or taken nearly as seriously as if it would be if it involved black people or Hispanics.

If it hasn’t happened already, I don’t imaging there will be any sort of apology from Cohen or SNY, and while everyone is laughing about it, I can lighten up and see the humor in it, but also still remain disappointed and feel dejected by the continuous failure of white people and white people media who love to police others and tell them to be better, while continuously failing to take their own fucking advice.

It doesn’t matter how well Kim Hye-song plays or doesn’t play, if people keep getting him mixed up with the other Chinamen on his own team, I’d rather see him go elsewhere, where he might actually get some fucking respect.

It’s basically golf cosplay, lol

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I briefly stopped at my sister’s place on the way home from a tiring jaunt up to my old stomping grounds, and we went out to dinner.  She took me to this neighborhood tavern that she and my niece swore by, but when we got there, the place was slam packed, by almost entirely white people.  In fact, I didn’t mention it to my sister, but I felt a little uneasy at the sheer lack of diversity in the place outright, because frankly I don’t feel comfortable in any place that’s so overwhelmingly saturated with just one demographic.

But anyway, I couldn’t help but notice that in spite of the fact that it looked like the Republican National Convention fanclub in there, just about every single dude in the place was dressed in their typical white guy golf gear; polo shirts, khaki shorts, etc, the kind of shit that I imagine all white guys meticulously equip themselves in when they’re preparing for a day of white guy-ing it up on the green, day drinking, taking bumps, and talking about how much colored people inconvenience their general way of life.

And then I noticed that three out of the four televisions in the joint were all tuned to coverage of The Masters, and that all of the Ben Afflecks had their eyes glued to the screens, watching Rory McIlroy I guess having a good day, since his minus number was greater than everyone else’s whenever a score graphic popped up.

But the point of this post is that I feel like either this is something that’s kind of becoming a new thing, or perhaps it’s something I’ve just never noticed in the past, because perhaps I’ve just managed to never bother to go out during any prior Masters broadcasts throughout the last few years, but it’s apparent that white guys really like to indulge in cosplaying as golfers while they watch golf in sports bars and pubs, and absolutely nowhere near a golf course.

Like I think it’s pretty amazing if I really have never gone out during a Masters broadcast in the past, and I’ve just been missing this phenomenon of white men getting decked out in all their golf paraphernalia just so they can watch golf, so I have to imagine that it’s perhaps more of a recent thing, but the point remains that this is basically the white people equivalent of their rendition of cosplay, but instead of dressing up in expensive, elaborate costumes of their favorite show, comic or video game characters, they’re instead dressing up in expensive renditions of their favorite golfers.

White folks are usually so arrogant and critical of pretty much anything alternative or stemming from origins perhaps not based in America, so it’s really amusing to me to identify something that all these white bros are all into, and despite the fact that I was just in a specific part of Virginia, I feel like that it’s probably not exclusive to that region, and that if I make a conscious effort to keep my eyes peeled in the future, I’m certain I’ll notice it here in Georgia, or wherever I might happen to be in future airings of The Masters.

Better Drivers. Doesn’t Matter. Papa Atlanta Roads.

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WSB: Papa Johns semi truck crashes, overturns on I-75, causes massive traffic jams

Not a whole lot to add to this.  It’s been a while since I wrote about a good old fashioned truck crash on the highways, but I’m disappointed to see that it wasn’t one of those catastrophes that ended with pizzas all over the place, scattered all over the highways, and all over the medians and shoulders.

Considering the fact that this happened right at the doorstep of Kennesaw State University, a budding commuter college in the Metro Atlanta area that has slowly been creeping upward over the last few years, probably buoyed by the gradual improvements and successes of their athletic program, there would’ve been an easy joke about how it was probably some broke boy college kids going all Fast & Furious on a pizza truck, hoping to score some free pizza, as if nobody would suspect the nearby college on whom could have done it.

No, I’m actually pretty familiar the location of this particular one, because I’ve had to drive north on I-75 for work related purposes a bunch of times, and there’s a specialist I’ve had to go to a few times in like Acworth, so I know the exact spot where this happened.

Although the lanes do merge up around here from a prior exit as well as being an access point for the toller-coaster Express lanes, everything is pretty straight, which makes it puzzling to how a semi can get into such a catastrophe where they end up overturned and halfway buried into the wall.  Then again, never underestimate the incompetence of the vast majority of people on the roads, because there’s no conditions where someone can’t somehow end up gravely injured or dead, in even the most seemingly safe road conditions.

But really, what spurred this post to fruition is that whenever I hear the name Papa Johns, I think about the photo and ensuing memes that basically murdered his career with the company that was named after him, where he was spotted blitzed drunk out of his mind at a basketball game, and hanging off of two college bros like he were Weekend at Bernie’s.  Even though this happened like an eon ago at this point, some people never forget, and it’s what always comes to mind whenever I think of the brand.

That said, as mentioned before, not a whole lot to add, not a whole lot else to write about this.  Wish there was some more of a catastrophic wreck where cargo was strewn about, but such was unfortunately not the case.