Tuesday, November 01, 2005

I did not expect this

Time magazine has an illuminating profile of New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui. Specifically:
Throughout it all, Matsui remained almost unnervingly low-key. He wears no earrings, no rock-star sunglasses, no outlandish hip-hop togs of the type favored by contemporaries like Ichiro. Flash just isn't Matsui's style, even if the conservative Giants hadn't frowned on such outré displays. Instructed to stay in the team dormitory and refrain from dating during the first several years of his career, so as to devote all his concentration solely to baseball, Matsui agreeably complied, without so much as a whimper. Indeed, his only eccentricity, if it can be called that, is his extensive private library of adult videos. His refreshing ability to laugh self-deprecatingly about his porno collection, reporters say, is one reason why fans and even nonfans have taken to him so much. Says former reporter Isao Hirooka: "Hideki just wants to be like ordinary people."

1 Comments:

Blogger Reggie Donovan said...

I just noticed the part about how he readily agreed to refrain from dating, which adds a whole new "chicken or the egg" dimension to the whole thing.

4:42 PM  

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