After reading the article about how certain individuals within the Lotte Marines organizations conspired like children to oust the popular manager of the team, Bobby Valentine, last year. It is an incredible read: children running a professional baseball organization. How in the world would the owner of the team sit back and allow such childish activities destroy the baseball club? Read the article to find out. I am so glad that I am no fan of the club. I would be livid at how Bobby was thrown under the bus. The fans should march to the team's offices and throw the people responsible under the bus instead. And I mean it.
Read article: Japan Times.
Bad guys involved (people wearing the black hats): Ryuzo Setoyama, Yoko Yoneda.
Let's hope the team stays at the bottom of the league for the next 10 years as punishment for their evil and dirty management ways. Let them be cursed.
Ha ha!
Excerpt:
A key, if unusual, combatant in the effort of the front office to discredit Valentine was a moon-faced, middle-aged woman named Yoko Yoneda, who, at the start of the 2009 season, had been elevated to the No. 3 spot in the front office, in charge of media relations and VIP suites.
With a fondness for garish fashion — black, zebra-striped polyester shirts and loud pink dresses — and carrying a mauve business card that described her as a "fortune teller" who did "character and color analysis," she was surely one of the strangest NPB executives in the annals of the game.
Yoneda made news at the beginning of the season, when she ordered reporters to stop wearing jeans and to use keigo, or formal Japanese when speaking to the players. This was the cause of great mirth to some observers, since most reporters had nothing else in their wardrobe and most players, for their part, were so uneducated they could not understand honorific Japanese.
A former cheerleader at high school baseball powerhouse PL Gakuen and an employee at Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which manufactures Pocari Sweat, a Japanese soft drink, Yoneda had been introduced to Akio Shigemitsu, by the president of Otsuka, and had been given a job in the Lotte front office in 2006.
No one could figure out what the nature of her relationship was with the diffident billionaire's son, who denied there was anything romantic going on. He simply explained in a news conference that Yoneda was an "eccentric character" who told his fortune.
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