CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 01/22/2012 09:24 AM, band beyond description wrote:
>> http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&source=mog&gl=us&q=Darvish%20arrival%20Dallas&sa=N&biw=320&bih=364#i=2
>> 
>> er, Mr. AP writer, that's no "Japanese maple leaf..." And Darvish d00d,
>> you're not walking around Shibuya any more.
>> 
>> ------
>> 
>> http://www.medicinehatnews.com/national-sports/welcome-yu-rangers-formally-introduce-japanese-pitcher-darvish-with-no-11-jersey-20120120.html
>> 
>> Darvish arrived about three hours earlier at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport,
>> where he was greeted by a large group of media cameras and a handful of
>> Rangers fans.
>> 
>> There was a bit of a stir created by the photos of the arrival, when
>> Darvish wore a T-shirt with the phrase "I Will Survive" surrounding the
>> image of a Japanese Maple Leaf, which looks similar to a marijuana leaf.
>> 
>> "In Japan, anything that's like a T-shirt with English words on it," he
>> said. "We just tend to wear it, we don't really actually know what it
>> means."
> 
> Medicine Hat?  Like there's no source closer to the action?  But, they
> must have used a wire service article as it is not written in Canadian, eh?


that leaf *could* be momoji...