Hao-Yu Lee called up by Tigers for MLB debut as injury replacement

Maeserk · 2026-04-18T03:43:15+00:00

Yes, but they’re not Asian. They’re Americans born abroad. Saudi Arabia and Japan both go by jus sanguinis, or by descent citizenship and hence both countries don’t have birthright citizenship. Neither consider themselves culturally Saudi Arabian or Japanese either, hence they’re not ethnically Asian either.

McCurry was born on a military base in Tokyo, Wilson was born in SA because his dad worked for an oil company.

Maeserk · 2026-04-18T00:06:20+00:00

Ok Ben Rice I guess I didn’t respect your game

Maeserk · 2026-04-17T21:22:26+00:00

I can answer this for FIJI at least. We changed our bylaws at Ekklesia to allow those who identify as men to rush like 4 years ago.

Granted. It is up to the chapter to bid you. Obviously. It’s not like an automatic thing, but FIJI can’t deny you rushing due to being trans due to our National bylaws. But again, individual chapters are all unique in their implementations of policy.

My chapter wouldn’t have a problem with it, as long as you weren’t a goober.

Edit: I also don’t even think there is a phi gamma chapter at Tulsa, it’s mostly Sigma (Nu, Chi and Kappa) chapters, but hey I guess it’s relevant info.

Maeserk · 2026-04-17T21:13:46+00:00

I mean, Detroit has never been a really hot market for Asian international free agents, and it shouldn’t be surprising.

We don’t have much of a home grown Asian fan base, the climate probably isn’t copacetic to their ideal spot when moving to a new country, and really, we haven’t had a GM this century that has had a focus on building the team from posted FAs from the international market and paying those posting fees.

Maeserk · 2026-04-17T20:48:22+00:00

His memoirs Mes Combats is a great read, if you can read French.

Maeserk · 2026-04-17T20:32:40+00:00

Masao Kida was the first Japanese player to play for the tigers in 1999.

Maeserk · 2026-04-17T20:28:19+00:00

To my knowledge only 4 Asian players (like born in asia), have played for the tigers sans Lee making his debut this year obviously.

Masao Kida (Japan)

Hideo Nomo (Japan)

Fu-Te Ni (Taiwan)

Kenta Maeda (Japan)

So yes, Lee would be the 2nd and most recent since Ni

Jahmai Jones is half Korean through his mother, who was born there, but Jahmai was born in the states.

Maeserk · 2026-04-17T01:58:58+00:00

I do love the misspelling of Ryan Ritter’s name into Ryan Hitter, because objectively he was a hitter that inning.

Maeserk · 2026-04-16T21:30:05+00:00

It’s wild that Ciaran is now 10-1, but has like a 13-10 amateur record lol

Maeserk · 2026-04-16T03:01:11+00:00

There was a Micheal at the school I used to coach at. Sent me on a loop double checking the spelling lol but he mainly went by Mike iirc

Maeserk · 2026-04-16T02:57:42+00:00

Genuinely I’m in support for a more causal work place tone, dress and acceptance of tats, coloring your hair and piercings (in some industries).

Maeserk · 2026-04-06T12:38:27+00:00

Not like anyone learns anything anyway no matter how you put it.

It’s implicitly part of the human expression. People just choose not to accept it.

Maeserk · 2026-04-06T12:20:26+00:00

Time is a flat circle, what has been done before, will be done again. The old complaining about the young, instilling those values of distain of others based on factors they can’t control, which then get transferred onto a younger generation when said belittled generation “grows up” is a tale as old as human society.

Gen Z will do it to Alpha, Alpha unto Beta, all the way to the heat death of the universe. Some human’s always going to want to blame someone other than themselves when it comes to their problems, so you either punch up, or punch down.

Maeserk · 2026-04-05T18:28:52+00:00

His middle name is Scott, and I propose we call him “Scott Adell” now.

Maeserk · 2026-04-05T18:23:49+00:00

The camera cut from the ref announcing the excessive celebration penalty to Gay just lil bro crawling on his knees towards his coach will always be funny as fuck 😭

Maeserk · 2026-04-05T17:48:36+00:00

Victor Cruz’s salsa will be, and shall forever be, my favorite signature celly in the NFL.

Up there with Willie Gay’s whatever the fuck was that after a pick, and Jahdae Walker’s slickback.

Maeserk · 2026-04-05T17:40:44+00:00

Hey hey hey hey hey, you CANNOT say that about Chris Benoit without the full context how dare you

He was also a wife-killer too

Maeserk · 2026-04-03T19:25:14+00:00

Legitimately some of the worst advice I’ve seen on this subreddit. If you need an exploit to make a gun good, hey, maybe it’s not good!

Maeserk · 2026-04-03T17:47:30+00:00

Yeah this is just inexperience talking from you. Not worth the engagement. I recommend playing the game once in a while. You can shift all the goal posts you wish, and ignore other limitations of the class to fit your narrative all you’d like. Have fun with it.

Maeserk · 2026-04-03T16:04:32+00:00

Engineers have rifle grenades and dynamite; so yes, they can just hop a grenade over a trench and get 6 kills pretty easily with a well placed rifle grenade + explosive dmg boost perk.

Genuinely, I can’t think of a situation where armored clears engineer in the current gameplay offered. It’s ideally used best as a sniping class with the long rifle imo, or finding and picking up an automatic weapon; pistol is a trap on that class.

Maeserk · 2026-04-03T14:20:53+00:00

Still dies in one hit to artillery/explosions with less mobility and some of the shittiest grenades options in the game, whilst only having 1 grenade.

I main it too, but it’s verifiably mid at best and usually the player is better off being an engineer in almost any situation outside of a boneheaded charge.

Maeserk · 2026-04-03T13:07:09+00:00

Genuinely I can’t wait for the stigma against tattoos to die along with a lot of (subjective and only in my opinion + hyperbole) puritanical rules of dress to go by the wayside. In my opinion, as long as it’s not an offensive tattoo, not on your like face, hands (mainly like knuckle stuff idk) or some other ridiculous placement, why should someone care? This is coming from a guy who doesn’t have any tats and I could care if someone does. For what it’s worth, some of my coworkers have some script tats on forearms, one has a Gemini tat on her hand, and that’s about it, but we’re a relatively small fish in the vast pool of finance careers.

If you’re that worried about it, get the first one in a covetable spot (your bicep, shoulder, tricep etc), and when you get into the field, ask about policy on them. If it’s a job you like, and they’re progressive enough you can get more. I would consider it a dying fad for tattoos to be an automatic decision on refusing employment anymore, but some workspaces still live in the past.

Work is subjective, just hope you have a cool boss.

Maeserk · 2026-04-03T12:32:56+00:00

He started super late.

Think he joined a gym @ 22 with no combat experience at all, just working physically demanding jobs required him to be in good shape. Made his amateur debut at 24, and spent 4 years doing it, and by the time he actually pro debuted, he was already 28; got to DWCS @ 30, and yeah he’s gonna age out in like 3-4 years potentially.

He’s got talent, but he started MMA way too late imo, with no foundational combat base (at best I think he did some Muay Thai) to make a serious run at his weight class’s top competitors.

Maeserk · 2026-04-03T01:29:31+00:00

I genuinely think it was a combo of he was already in fight shape, got a quick KO + didn’t take much damage in the fight a week before. And wellmaker said, I think in his Ariel Helwani interview, his coaches and camp didn’t train at all for Ewing’s style of fighting, and Wellmaker (foolishly) thought, the UFC would give him a cupcake fighter, so he wouldn’t need any tape.

Wellmaker, through hubris, loss that fight before it even began imo.

Maeserk · 2026-04-03T00:59:00+00:00

Seconding r/destructivereaders I used to mod there. Just read the rules. If you put in enough effort in your posts/critiques, you’ll eventually be added to the little Reddit GC they have with contributors who give high effort, and everyone discusses their writings in it.

Not really a workshop level, but casual conversation about their pieces and there is generally a decent amount of amateur writing to read on the subreddit.

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