A big hooray for Japan and their progressive baseball culture! Today some team called the Kobe9 Cruise drafted 16 year old Eri Yoshida. Yoshida, known for her impressive knuckleball (i know, i know) showed up to the draft in her high school uniform - a move which confused most of the world, seeing as how the event had nothing to do with filming a pornographic movie.
Yoshida was quoted as saying she modeled her pitch after some guy in America that plays for the Boston Red Sox - which I am told is a professional baseball team and not just a group of people who are bad at doing laundry.
When asked for a comment, that guy, whose name is Tim Wakefield said "I'm honored that someone wants to become me."
This comment caused a long pause as Yoshida stared blankly at her translator for a few minutes, remembered that she actually speaks fluent English, and concluded - correctly - that Tim Wakefield is an idiot.
Wakefield is one of only two Major League pitchers currently playing who rely on the knuckleball. The other being Seattle's R.A. Dickey, a man who I can only assume goes by R.A. because his actual name is Rumps Afulluv.
The manager for the Cruise spoke highly of his choice. "Her sidearm knuckleballs dip and sway, and could be an effective weapon for us," said Yoshihiro Nakata. He then added "Super crazy happy snake horse rainbow baseball fantastic!"
It was a victory for Japanese women everywhere who normally don't have time for baseball as they are usually either A) dancing with fans in their hands or B) being scary and crawling out of tv's and wells.
Even Toshihiko Kasuga, the director of the Women's Baseball Association of Japan, was supportive:
"I think her recruitment is in part for the publicity, it would be extremely hard for women to squarely compete against men in any sport."
And how!
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