Comments on: HBW: Tomoyo Matsuzaka

By: Hot Baseball Wife: Revisiting “Rockets” | umpbump.com

Hot Baseball Wife: Revisiting “Rockets” | umpbump.com — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:32:21 +0000

[...] we first broke the background story of Daisuke Matsuzaka and his wife Tomoyo back in 2006, there wasn’t a lot of time to search for pictures, so we just went with what we could find [...]

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By: Dirty Carl Sports » Blog Archive » Meet The Ms. Dice-K

Dirty Carl Sports » Blog Archive » Meet The Ms. Dice-K — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:38:09 +0000

[...] As we begin to learn a bit more about Daisuke Matsuzaka, the newest sliver of heroin to the junkies of Red Sox Nation, we, as we all tend to do, take a look at his homelife. Specifically, his wife, Tomoyo Shibata, who, according to the outstanding research of UmpBump, has caused a stir in Japan for rocking the cradle, being a golddigger (not that we’re sayin’ that!) and working as (gasp!) a sideline reporter. Because the former Miss Shibata is significantly older than Matsuzaka (she’s 31, he’s 26), she was viciously criticized in the Japanese media for “seducing” Matsuzaka when the couple began their liason in 2000 when he was only 19 years old. Because of the difference in their ages, they began dating in secret, and a huge scandal errupted when it came out that Matsuzaka’s car had been towed for being illegally parked overnight in front of Shibata’s house (it was such a big scandal that the Seibu Lions even suspended Matsuzaka for a few games). [...]

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By: lostinube

lostinube — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:44:28 +0000

In Japan, female announcers have almost a cult-like following. Websites feature nightly screencaps of their favorite announcers and there are magazines devoted to announcers.

Also, an announcer marrying a pro athlete is becoming quite a common thing in the Japanese entertainment world.

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By: Jim Stanton

Jim Stanton — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:52:52 +0000

There’s actually plenty of pics online – but you have to search for her name in japanese:

?? ??

not in english

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By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:12:07 +0000

you also need to be using IE and not Firefox.

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By: Coley Ward

Coley Ward — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:40:41 +0000

Yeah, but several players have spoken up and said it might be best for the team if Manny were traded. Schilling (big shock) was the most recent, but I don’t think he was the only one.

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:24:03 +0000

His teammates are sick of “hurt” benchwarming Manny. No one is sick of 40 homers, 120 RBI, hitting-behind-Papi Manny.

He’s not an angry, clubhouse cancer kind of guy, though his behavior drives the media into a rage. He’s just one of those semi-autistic, clueless-but-benign idiot savantes.

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By: Coley Ward

Coley Ward — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:30:30 +0000

I think you’re probably right, although indications are that a lot of his teammates are sick of Manny. It might benefit the team to be rid of his attitude, even if it would hurt to lose his bat.

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By: Alejandro Leal

Alejandro Leal — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:32:54 +0000

Oh yea… you have to have Windows XP in order to play the video…

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:46:51 +0000

I don’t believe the Sox are interested in trading Manny anymore. For whom? For what? The only major piece still missing in Boston is a closer, and Theo has been stockpiling arms. Word here is that he’ll try to exchange some of his extra relievers for a closer.

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