Updated throughout the day with quick takes from staff.
Found this tidbit with a Google News search:
Japanese baseball technicians are scheduled to arrive to Cuba to give a course to their Cuban counterparts on pitching, hitting and baseball strategy, a senior official said here on Thursday.
Cuban vice president and head of the local Olympic Committee, Jose Ramon Fernandez, said that the Japanese will give two local technical courses in Havana and Santiago de Cuba.
The official did not specify when the Japanese technicians are expected to arrive.
Naturally, this made me think of technician Larry Bowa, and ex-technician Don Zimmer. Not to mention recently-hired minor-league technician Willie Mays Aikens.
Other languages are funny, because they’re different.
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My favorite translation
…was an old auto-translation from a Japanese stats page that converted Earned Run Average to “”http://catfishstew.baseballtoaster.com/archives/847026.html" >Traffic Vibration Rate".
If pitching is an art, batting is criticism. The batter's job is to destroy every cliche he sees.
by kenarneson on Feb 4, 2011 3:13 AM EST reply actions
argh
try that link again:
If pitching is an art, batting is criticism. The batter's job is to destroy every cliche he sees.
by kenarneson on Feb 4, 2011 3:14 AM EST up reply actions
That is the word for Latin based languages
In Italian, portuguese and spanish the word “tecnico” is one of the words used for the Manager.
In Italian Soccer they have an even better one. Some players will call the Coach (from an Hungarian town) “Mister” a throw back to when it was the English that Managed a lot of the Italian teams at the turn of the century and taught the Italians the game.
Ok, back to my nerdy basement….
by Coppernob on Feb 4, 2011 10:57 AM EST reply actions
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