I think we all know what Lew is saying... :)

I'm just having so much fun scrolling thru these. Here's Santana vs KC:
http://news.naver.com/sports/new/view.php?category=mlb&menu=cartoon&seq=37

Yeah, and we all know what the baserunner is saying as Torii steals his home run, but I'm not too sure about the other ones. Is that Gardy talking to Joe in the last frame?

Maybe I'll see if I can get my wife to translate them when she gets home...

The detail to the road and away hats is impressive.

I think Lew is trying to donate an Idiot Savant moment to one of the starters...

Looks like Rincon has "Simon-ed" one of the rookie's auditions for Bullpen Barbershop Quartet..

Perhaps Bonser and Liriano are the inside parts of the Joe Nathan Stacking Doll..

Does Bradke wear the uni around the house during the off-season?..

Oh, those are freakin' awesome! No idea what they say, but regardless.

This is great, I love it.

Is it possible a little irony is in play, with the three former Giants being depicted as itty-bitty guys?

Radke is my favorite, watching TV... what's with the muchroom falling off of Torii's glove?

I think the reason we have so much problem understanding what they are saying, is that they are saying it in Korean: just trying to be helpful.Linguistically,Al

I think the "mushroom" is an Anime device symbolizing an impact of sorts.

Who is riding the bike with Johan/E.T. on it?

K...this is third hand from my friend's Korean girlfriend.

The box just has stats and their Korean translation but it pretty straightforward. The guy on the bike is saying something like "Am I getting better?". I dunno maybe its a reference to ET in some way.

In the Bradke toon the subtitle says "Home Sweet Home" with Brad saying "yeah home is the best" and his wife saying something to the effect of "go work and get money while you can."

Torii's panel has a subtitle that says "Sorry, I'm hunting." with the runner saying "Eh?" and Torii says "wee I got one!"

The Joe Nathan one is one of the hardest because it appears to be cultural specific with the subtitle referencing a beantree and the large bubble saying "Mom I gave peeojiski(specific name) and I still have this much". The other balloon seems to say "Your stupid and I'm gonna go crazy (don't ask me why)". Boof is saying "ori" which means duck and Nathan is saying "boree" which means rice, but it appears to be a play on words.

Lew Ford's subtitle says confessional and his word bubble is wishing for one of the outfielders to get a hamstring injury so he can play. And the preist is responding with something like "No wonder in the hamstring the reality is buried".

Ricon's (anyone else notice how they spelled his name) subtitle says something like "and my fists?", with the top left guy saying "here cover" and the top right guy saying "here slide" with the bottom left guy saying "over there pass the ball for sure" with the exasperated player saying "now even I'm confused".

Mauer's subtitle says "with that he bacame the favorite one for 2 years." Joe is saying "and the prize?" with Gardy responding "No prize".

wengler... I bow down to you.

Umm.....I'm Korean so I think I can provide some additions to that translation up there....kudos to wengler for all his work, I just hope I can help out a bit.. :)

The Box with Mr. Santana there is probably Gardy on the bike saying "Are...are we flying??"

Brad's box is pretty much what wengler says it is...so is Torii's...

Joe Nathan's captions say "Terry[Ryan] and the Beanstalk", a la Jack and the Beanstalk. The speach bubble says, "Mommy!! Look how much I got for Pierzynki!!" where the reply is an exclamation meaning something to the effect of "Oh god!! what do I do with you??" kind of thing. The things the players are saying is "eori" and "beori" which put together, "oeri-beori" is a kind of adverb desribing someone kind of looking lost or wishy-washy.

In Lew Ford's box Lew says "Forgive me for I have sinned...I wished for one of the outfielders to hurt their hamstring and be out for the season.." the priest is saying something like, "It seems like you have a sense of reality to the hamstring situation..."

In Juan's box all those players are Juan; the caption says "what is my main weapon(=best pitch)?" and he's looking at different baseball books saying "here it says curve...here it says slider....this book says cut fastball....now I'm getting confused..."

and Joe Mauer's is as wengler says.

Hope this helps!! :)

Oops..missed out an s in Pierzynski up there....

Way to go, emmingu! Thanks for all your help!!!

I thought Radke and his wife were having the following conversation:

"Hey Edith, get me a beer, heeeh?"
"Ohhh Arrrrchie!"

Hey anyone else notice that Mauer is on crutches in his frame? These guys know their Twins baseball...

YankeeFan

Mauer's frame looks like he is talking to Mulholland. I don't know if that makes any more sense or not, though.

I'll bet the folks at Dallas Baptist University love seeing alumnus Lew Ford in the confessional!

hello...

i think mauer box....

mauer good potential player...

but he injured this season.

( in box he go on crutches.)

he participated 35game

so he is the best potential player in team during

two years( 2003, 2004)

mauer say "i want gift" manager say " do not exist "

Off topic, but what's the scoop on Santana's arbitration situation?

YankeeFan, I hope you got a chance to look at the Yankees page. It contains Felix Heredia being kicked out of the bullpen, ARod getting embarressed while watching porn in the locker room, a syringe coming out of Giambi's back, Kevin Brown punching a wall, and Bernie Williams singing to Javier Vazquez.

Still, the best one, hands down, is Kazuhito Tadano flirting with ARod on the Indians page.

http://news.naver.com/sports/new/view.php?category=mlb&menu=cartoon&seq=80

this link yankee page

Dearest h,

Are you responsible for these? They are AMAZING.

Admiringly yours,
Batgirl

no :)

i am korean.

i want that you are fun, happy

h,

Thanks for the link. This is, hands down, the funniest thing I have seen in a while. If I may trouble emmingu (or anyone else) to translate the page for me I would be most grateful. With more material to poke fun at than the Twins roster, I can only imagine the exchange between Bernie and Javi... Lest I be accused of attempting to inject Yankee into the discussion, you can email the exchange to njktemp@yahoo.com. Thank you in advance to anyone who takes the time out.

Still laughing,
YankeeFan

This seems like a good place to put this - more love for Torii ;-)

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?id=1984124

I can translate all of them and send it to Batgirl or something....should I do that? :)

Boy, you could get lost on that website forever.

Check out the "guest appearance" of Johan on the Red Sox page.

I keep going back to that picture of Radke. The resemblance is uncanny.

You should make sure to check out the one about Torii at the end (page 8 of the previews (for lack of a better word)). There also seems to be a high degree of violence in the Marlins preview - I'm dying to know what the Wood-robot Barry Bonds's are doing to poor Carl and Armando!

I don't think those are robots but marionettes.

Here's the Yankees one..

First Box, you got Sheffield shaking the little character which is supposed to be the incarnation of "injury". There's a phrase in Korean saying when you're constantly getting something, you say you go around with it "attached" or "dangling" off of you, so...the caption says; "Injury? We fight with it attached!!!" Sheffield says "if you shake your bat your injury shakes with it" and Mussina says "oooh, cute! It's like a cell-phone accessory!"..Lieber goes "aah....if only my injury was as big..." Meanwhile, Kevin Brown in the background hits the wall going "S**t! I want an injury too!!"

Second Box: caption says, "Invincible Bullpen!!" and Quantrill and Gordon go "hoho.." Rivera looks back saying "Eh?? what are you doing?!" while Heredia dances and sings..(the stuff in the speach bubble is like a traditional singing chorus....from usually pretty old songs that old ppl sing...basically it's just pretty silly.)

Third Box: Caption says, "Godzilla Hits New York!!" and Godzilla lets out a roar..

Fourth Box: Caption says, "Country Boy comes to the city" and Vazquez says "Damn..there's so many people here!! (written with a Korean southern accent) while (with that 5 and the guitar, I'm presuming) Bernie Williams sings "Because it's New York~New York~~"

Fifth Box: Caption says, "(while) spending time with 24 grown-ups.." and people going "ooh" "aah" "gulp", and Arod says something like, "aaah....night after night...it's hard to bear..(or this is harassing/troubling)"

Sixth Box: Caption says, "There is this person(or there is such a person)"..players go "I thought he was slacking off and making mistakes all season...but his stats come out great.." "hmph!! How hateful!!" while Jeter walks away with a girl saying "Missed me Baby?"

Last: Caption says "Aftereffects of the drugs(steroids).." Giambi goes, "Strange, why does my body ache so much? this is not good...." while the other guy says, "Nee...Needle...you haven't taken it out!"

heheh.

emmingu,

A thousand thank-yous. If you were wondering whether anyone would appreciate the time you took to transalte and type it, or whether it was even worth doing in the first place, the answer to both inquiries is 'yes.'

YankeeFan

BTW, the cartoonist says that he originally was an Oakland fan when he started following MLB in the late 80s/early 90s, but that now our Twins are his favorite team. Explains why he's so ontop of his Twins stuff.

When Twins and great cartooning ability combine..It makes bojangles happy!!!

Dear Mr./Ms. Emmingru,

Indeed. Anything you are willing to do would be warmly appreciated.

Love,
Batgirl

Hahaha, the one that is most clear is what happens to Griffey in the Reds "preview."

Funny stuff.

I got a bit confused by the Mauer one as explained above, but according to my wife, it means something more like "And with that he became the top prospect for two years straight" or something like that (i.e. substitute "top prospect" for "favorite").

I like the last box in the LA dodgers one. As my wife explains it:
Ishii is saying to Hideo Nomo: "I could pitch better than you with my eyes closed"
Nomo replies: "You talk as if you've pitched with your eyes open before".
And in every frame, Milton Bradley is pictured holding something above his head and about to fly into a rage. heh.

I thought that the Mauer one (with Mauer asking for his prize and Gardy saying no prize) was referring to the Rookie of the Year that everyone thought he was going to get but didn't.

I could be wrong, though.

Yours,
k-bro

k-bro, that makes perfect sense.

http://afbase.com/bbs/data/comm/twiiiiiiii.jpg

This is the english version

Redke's scene satires that he wanted to stay in Minnesota. Even though he could go to another team and get more money, he decided to stay with the Twins. That's why he says the home is the best and his wife says earn more money while you can in this cartoon.

And the Nathan's scene. It's the a parody of Jack and the Beanstalk. It's a childish story from somewhere in Europe which is pretty famous in Korea. I don't know if Americans know this story or not. In this story, Jack, a little boy, goes to a market to sell his cow. He traded his cow for three beans with an old man. When he brougnt the beans home his mom thought he was stupid. But it wasn't because they were magic beans. He plants the beans and the beanstalk grows up to the sky. Jack climbs up the beanstalk and goes the cloud. And then he steals a monster's treasure.

For this cartoon, when Terry traded pierzynski and got the three trifling Giants rookies,fans (the mom) thought it was a stupid trade. But it wasn't. They were magic beans. See what Nathan did last year.

I get it now steve, the moral of the story is that Ryan stole Nathan from the Giants? (Maybe the Jack and the Beanstalk analogy works better than I first thought)...

YankeeFan

the 19th story is about Montreal Expos... and epigrams...

Thankssoverymuchforthisgreatwebsite.AlexanderSchmitz.f939fjwkwqllq.

Here's an article (in English!) about the cartoon's creator, Choi Hoon:

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/sports/200406/kt2004061716542711640.htm

Wouldn't it be great if an American site picked up this cartoon? What entertainment!

I'm korean,..

I had not been interested in baseball, and MLB too.

But since I saw these cartoons(made by choi-hoon), I've got much informations and fun.

Nowadays, in Korea, MLB fans are likely to see his cartoons and they wish to translate his cartoons into english to let other country people know about his cartoons.(I hope so.)

I'm happy because everyone who visit this homepage like this cartoons and want to know about more informations about his cartoons.

I hope everyone who loves MLB are able to see his cartoons and enjoy his humorous drawing.

Good-bye~

(I'm sorry because I'm not good at english.. ^^;)

I am SO disturbed by the Tony Batista panel on this one:

http://news.naver.com/sports/new/view.php?category=mlb&menu=cartoon&seq=81

I've got to say that the Reds cartoon seems just as keyed into the facts as the Twins one does, with Danny Graves being dead tired (he pitched so much last year), and Griffey getting hurt. And he included little-known Ryan Freel, who is beloved in Reds Country. I wish I knew what was being said in the rest of the frames. The only sad part is that there isn't another Griffey frame where he's suddenly in an Oriole uniform. They get all the washed-up Sosa-stars!

Hello, Adam
Just recollect Tony's posture of batting...
That's all...:)

From One of MLB fan in Seoul, Korea

Hi, My name is Ricky Choi. From One of MLB fan in Seoul, Korea. Cartoon Creator Hoon Choi, Many
Cartoon Created.. Version is Major Team and Major League Baseball Player. Players is Jason Kendall, A-Rod, Torii Hunter, Tim Wakefield, Rafael Palmeiro, Omar Vizquel, Vladimir Guerrero
etc. Guerrero Nickname is Monster. Why? Guerrero
is Scare.

Friend necessary E-Mail Please
avrillavignelov@hanmail.net

um.. i'am korean too.but the friend who translated cartoon doen't know baseball.

in first box, santana is named for external in korea with replacement for pedro. so he is compared to ET.

in second box, radke made a contract with minesota again because he liked minesoa and his home.so his wife is complain . his wife seem to want that radke made a big contract like beltran.

in torri's box, i have no addition.a phrase "i'm sorry, i'm hunting" is traveling around in korea

in nathan's box, choi say that minesota made a bad contract whit sanfransico, because they gave sanfransico Pierzynki and gave 3 stupid men.(어리 버리 means "stupid") . but nathan played very well. in a word, choi is comparing this story to "terry and been tree"

in lew ford box, he is confessing that he was praying that 3 raval would be hurted by hamstring . a holy father says to himself that his saying is believable..'hamstring...'

next box means that rincon has ball of various type .

and last box means that joe was great but coudnt get any aword or compensation.

for reference, choi like minesota and boston.and dislike yankees. so i don't like him very much.