Hyphen magazine

I'm editor in chief of Hyphen, a magazine about Asian America for the culturally and politically savvy. Check out Disgrasian.com bloggers Diana Nguyen and Jen Wang and more in The Trailblazing Issue.

Giants ticket page posted, site up and running

I’ve got the site up and working and have posted the San Francisco Giants tickets I have for sale.

The site still needs some tinkering, but all the parts are working.

Filipinos Geno Espineli, Tim Lincecum play for Giants

San Francisco Giants pitcher Geno Espineli is reportedly the first full-blooded Filipino to play Major League Baseball and I read today (see very end of story) that teammate Tim Lincecum’s mother is Filipina.

Offensive Fukudome shirts still for sale

Vendors outside Wrigley Field and on eBay are still selling shirts that have “Horry Kow” on the front and Japanese ball player Kosuke Fukudome’s name and number on the back. The shirts poke fun at Japanese accents using the familiar “holy cow” that the late Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray used to always use.

Baseball in Japan Not a Hit for Atlanta columnist

Even with all the talk of new media and the Internet, there’s still some dinosaur-like thinking out there in the journalism world. A good example is a sports column by Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who laments about Major League Baseball playing games in Tokyo, “you know the guys who gave us Pearl Harbor.” [...]

Wakamatsu could become baseball’s first Asian American manager

New Oakland A’s coach Don Wakamatsu is highly regarded and may become the first Asian American manager in Major League Baseball.

James Guardino shows off fantasy baseball trophy

James won our Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Plus league last year, beating 2005 champ Gavin Tachibana and a strong field.

Congratulations, James, but enjoy it while you can. The bobblehead (or whatever Yahoo gives out next) is mine this season.

On the field at AT&T Park

Ken Wong keeps one in the park at AT&T.

Sunday was San Francisco Giants Season Ticket Holder Appreciation Day, and my brother-in-law Ken crashes into the wall trying to make a great play in left field. Ramie and I, Ramie’s sister Debbie, and of course, Ken, took advantage of the Giants allowing season ticket holders [...]

Ishikawa gets brief tour with Giants

He came and went in less than a week, but Travis Ishikawa made an impression after being called up to fill in for injured regular San Francisco Giants first baseman Lance Niekro.

And the Yahoo Sports plaque goes to . . .

Gavin Tachibana, for winning the Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league I was the commissioner for last year.