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Friday, March 12, 2010

The legend of Ichiro

By Tangotiger, 04:02 PM

He should not only be a reliever, but he can also bat right-handed. You can have nine Ichiros on your team and each one of them would be so unique, it’s like you had nine different players.

Ichiro is baseball’s Chuck Norris.

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#1 Matt Lentzner (see all posts) 2010/03/14 (Sun) @ 13:30

I’d like someone to explain to me why Ichiro is not a shortstop.