Great piece from the AP about ex-major leaguer Randy Ruiz, who now plays for a franchise in Japan that's been hit hard by the tsunami. Just one small snippet from a long story:
Baseball In Japan Won’t Be The Same
↵↵There’s talk the start of the Japanese regular season could be pushed back two or three weeks to mid-April. The Eagles’ park has been damaged and Ruiz speculates it may not be ready until May.
↵“If it was up to me, I’d worry about the city before worrying about baseball,” he said. “Who wants to go to a baseball game when you have dead family members?”
↵↵I don’t know. Probably the same sorts of people who go see movies when times are bad, or the sorts of people who attended baseball games during World War II. I’m always a little buffaloed when otherwise-intelligent fellows suggest that when tragedy strikes, everything should move ahead ... except sports, our highest form of escapism.
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