Comments on: Kim And The Great Rocky Mountain Sucking Sound

By: june

june — Wed, 04 May 2005 13:44:00 +0000

I am Korean. But like Steve, Kim sucks. I even wonder why Kim is still in major league. (Although thanks to Kim, Dodger could win a game last week.) The problem of Kim is his personality. He is very young and immature. He didn’t get along with his teammates. He should try to change his personality, otherwise he should pack and go back to Korea. There is no point to be a good player if everyone (esp. your teammates) hates you.

By the way, thanks for posting about my hometown Busan. I’ll keep my eyes on this blog.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 03 May 2005 04:00:28 +0000

As much as I’m Korean as Kim, I suppose I should stick up for him although my sentiments disagree. I think Kim more of an emotionally unstable person than a ball player. You’ve got to be fucking crazy to flick off Bostonians when they’re the spectators and home crowd of your fucking team. Although he’s Korean that doesn’t mean squat to me. He sucks, he sucks.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 02 May 2005 21:05:50 +0000

Jeff - “Cour time”. I don’t get it. I mean, it’s the play-offs, so the Blazers are sitting it out. But his stats weren’t that bad (according to my buddy).

The thing is, I only knew there was an asian guy on the local team because there is - literally - a 200-foot wide mural of the guy (with outstreched arms) next to my freeway interchange.

I’m not a big fan, but my co-workers are. And no one cares. But I stopped caring when Paul Allen (of Microsoft fame) fired the coach some 10+ years ago when the players couldn’t keep it up through the last 10 minutes of the 4th quarter.

Since then, every Blazer game is: “Lose the game in the last 5 minutes of the 4th quarter.” Seriously, I’ve only seen the Blazers beat the LA Clippers - and then I only went to the game in a Skybox via work.

I feel for the baseball fans going through the same dread of sports decline. Basketball has become a parody of itself - but it never had the pride of baseball. As some once said of basketball during the Larry Jordan days, “They were Men playing a Boys’ game…and they knew it.” That isn’t true today.

Sadly, baseball is shortly behind.

By: Jeff in Korea

Jeff in Korea — Mon, 02 May 2005 14:27:16 +0000

Scott… Well.. it worked for Kobe. But with Portland, you almost HAVE to do that sort of thing. It’s expected. I tend to ignore the sports news here, but i haven’t heard anything about him. I didn’t know he was getting any court time yet…Wait, this is the Trailblazers, i should be careful when I say things like “cour time.” People could misunderstand.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 02 May 2005 12:42:41 +0000

Jeff - Is the 18-year-old Korean kid playing basketball for the Portland Trailblazers getting any press in Korea? Just curious, because no one seems to care here. And to be blunt, he seems to be the best player on the team.

Of course, not being a drug dealer, or wife-beater, the guy doesn’t really fit in. Maybe what Kim needs to do is smoke some pot, get some tattoos and beat some women - then he can fit into professional sports (basketball, anyway).

By: hmmm

hmmm — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:49:19 +0000

C’mon, give the guy a break.

Like 47 million of his countrymen he’s still emotionally distraught about not receiving a sincere enough apology and adequate compensation from the Japanese government over wartime atrocities. The whole Liancourt Rocks issue bothers him quite a bit as well.

Hmmm, I wonder if his pitching sucks so bad these days because he cut off one of his fingers to throw at the Japanese Embassy.