{"id":2408,"date":"2009-11-05T23:59:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T04:59:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-06T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T10:20:27","slug":"the-mvjrp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-mvjrp\/","title":{"rendered":"The MVJRP"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mZ94LHVn1T0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Well, the World Series is over, and I send out my condolences to all you Philly Phans in the Hall.  Speaking for myself, I felt like the Series was a mediocre one; I dunno, it just sort of sat there.<\/p>\n<p>One bright spot for me was the selection of <strong>Hideki Matsui<\/strong> as World Series MVP.  I like sports that actually have a global reach &#8212; sports where when the winning team says &#8220;we&#8217;re world champions,&#8221; the world actually cares.  So I was happy when a Japanese dude kicked major, Mr. October-caliber ass and was able to hoist the MVP trophy up high.  And I can only imagine how totally ape-shit crazy the sports media in Japan must be going right now.<\/p>\n<p>This got me thinking:  rock and roll is certainly an international game.  I think we&#8217;d all agree that the World Series of Rock trophy basically gets passed back and forth between England and the United States year after year &#8212; but there have been valuable contributions from other nations.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t want to start a &#8220;United Nations of Rock&#8221; thread here.  I want to focus on something a bit more specific.  In honor of Hideki Matsui&#8217;s achievement, I want to know:  <em>Who&#8217;s the Most Valuable Japanese Rock Player?<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p>Note:  Native-born Americans (or English dudes) with Japanese features or surnames don&#8217;t count &#8212; sorry, James &#8220;William B. Williams&#8221; Iha!  <\/p>\n<p>Just tell me the answer is *not* <strong>Tetsu Yamauchi<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the World Series is over, and I send out my condolences to all you Philly Phans in the Hall. Speaking for myself, I felt like the Series was a mediocre one; I dunno, it just sort of sat there. One bright spot for me was the selection of Hideki Matsui as World Series MVP. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-mvjrp\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}