If you ask me, he never recovered from an injury last June when he tore a tendon in an interleague game running round a corner, something pitchers apparently “don’t do,” former Yankee teammate Mike Mussina said at the time.
According to a report on the New York Daily News Web site, Wang’s rehab specialist Dr Mark Lindsay will now work with him to “rehab his hips,” so in the event that he can’t hack it in the majors, he can still possibly earn a living as an Elvis impersonator. Move over, Chang Jung-kung (張榮恭).
While we’re on the subject of useless, can somebody tell me whose decision it was to trial WiMAX, the next big thing in wireless communication, on Penghu?
Installing WiMAX in Taiwan’s desolate offshore county is the equivalent of a chocolate teapot or putting an ashtray on a motorbike.
I’ve been to the Pescadores a couple of times on vacation. With no disrespect to the residents of those barren isles, it’s not the kind of place where people line up to download the latest stock stats onto their smartphones.
It they tailor the service to provide the latest figures from the squid and peanut futures indices and up-to-the-minute shipping forecasts, that might be a winner.
If you ask me, the reason they chose Penghu was so that they could use the residents as guinea pigs to test the effects of microwaves on humans.
Nobody will flinch if a few Penghu natives drop dead from frazzled brains. They can always blame it on the weather, given the intense heat and gale-force winds that whip across that place most of the year.
Finally, I was searching on Chicom propaganda central — the Xinhua Web site — for something the other day when I stumbled across this headline, dated April 30: “Jackie Chan appointed ambassador for 2010 Shanghai expo.”
Senior Chicoms were obviously very pleased with Jackie’s recent controversial comments at the Boao Forum that “Chinese need to be controlled.”
For our Jackie, it seems that for every ambassadorship He taketh away, another one arriveth.
The report quoted Jackie as saying “Like every Chinese citizen, I am looking forward to the event.”
Jackie should be looking forward to it — given the fat payoff he likely received from Shanghai’s authorities to promote it, but try telling that to the residents relocated from the Expo site, for whom the ever-generous Jackie was performing when he made the remarks.
Let’s just hope old “champion of the Chinese people” Jackie is willing to fight for the rights of the displaced residents when, as so often in the past, promised compensation for demolished homes is embezzled by corrupt local officials.
Nah, forget that. Let’s be more realistic and hope they don’t make Rush Hour 4.
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