A quick one on sports

Thoughts:

• Asians have always been mysteriously desirable, mostly for the foreign-ness factor. The fetish made Lucy Lui popular, and now its helping japanese pitchers. Why is there such a clamour for far east pitching? I mean, for every Chien-Ming Wang, there are many Irabu's littering the path of import pitching. To see the ridiculous hype surround Red Sox Daisuke Matsuzaka seem to be a ridiculous proposition stemming from America's love of all things asian. Just remember, Red Sox Nation, that you really overspent when Dice-K flames out in the second half of the season...
• The Ravens have lost...again. Not only did Baltimore flame out early in the playoffs this year, but they're being double whammy-ed in free agency. Losing Ovie, Pashos, possibly Jamal...but nothing stings more than Adalius Thomas signing with the Patriots. Instead of signing high prices free agents who are past their prime (pointing to you, Samari Rolle), the Ravens should have trusted their drafting abilities and worked though development. Then, instead of losing one of the top linebackers in the NFL, we'd just be missing high priced players who are past their prime.