今年は８０盗塁以上の盗塁王でブレイクする。
マイナーとは言え、２０１２年は１３２試合で１５５盗塁。
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=hamilt002bil
出塁すれば、盗塁の確率は高そうだ。 出塁率
２０１１年 １Ａ １３５試合 １０３盗塁 １５３安打 ５２四球 １３３三振 .３４０
２０１２年 １Ａ ８２試合 １０４盗塁 １０９安打 ５０四球 ７０三振 .４１３
２Ａ ５０試合 ５１盗塁 ５０安打 ３６四球 ４３三振 .４０６
２０１３年 ３Ａ １２３試合 ７５盗塁 １２９安打 ３８四球 １０２三振 .３０８
ＭＬＢ １３試合 １３盗塁 ７安打 ２四球 ４三振 .４２９
In Japan, a Beloved Deaf Composer Appears to Be None of the Above
TOKYO — He was celebrated as a prolific musical genius whose compositions appeared in popular video games and the competition routine of a top figure skater in the coming Sochi Olympics. His deafness won him praise as Japan’s modern-day Beethoven.
It turns out his magnum opus was his own masquerade.
On Thursday, Japan learned that one of its most popular musical figures, Mamoru Samuragochi, 50, had staged an elaborate hoax in which someone else had secretly written his most famous compositions, and that he had perhaps even faked his hearing disability.
Across a nation long captivated by Western classical music, people reacted with remorse, outrage and even the rare threat of a lawsuit after Mr. Samuragochi’s revelations that he had hired a ghostwriter since the 1990s to compose most of his music. The anger turned to disbelief when the ghostwriter himself came forward to accuse Mr. Samuragochi of faking his deafness, apparently to win public sympathy and shape the Beethoven persona.
The scandal began on Wednesday, when Mr. Samuragochi publicly confessed that someone else had written his most famous works. These include Symphony No. 1 “Hiroshima,” about the 1945 atomic bombing of his home city, which became a classical music hit in Japan; the theme music for the video games Resident Evil and Onimusha; and Sonatina for Violin, which the Japanese Olympic figure skater Daisuke Takahashi is scheduled to use in his performance in Sochi.
The timing could hardly have been worse for Mr. Takahashi, a potential medalist who won the bronze in the Vancouver Olympics four years ago. He said in a statement that he would continue to skate to the musical piece — he really had little choice given all the time and work needed to prepare an Olympic routine — and hoped the revelations would not overshadow his performance.
“Takahashi and the people involved with him did not know about this incident,” the statement said. “This is a crucial time just before the Olympics.”
On Wednesday, Mr. Samuragochi expressed remorse for the deception, though he did not reveal why he chose to come forward at that particular moment.
“Samuragochi is deeply sorry as he has betrayed fans and disappointed others,” said a statement released by Mr. Samuragochi’s lawyer. “He knows he could not possibly make any excuse for what he has done.”
The reason for this sudden repentance became clear on Thursday when the ghostwriter revealed himself to be Takashi Niigaki, 43, a largely unknown part-time lecturer at a prestigious music college in Tokyo. Mr. Niigaki said he had written more than 20 songs for Mr. Samuragochi since 1996, for which he received the equivalent of about $70,000.
He said he felt so guilty about the deception that he had threatened to go public in the past, but Mr. Samuragochi had begged him not to. He said he finally could not take it anymore when he learned one of his songs would be used by the Olympic skater. He told his story to a weekly tabloid, which went on sale Thursday.
“He told me that if I didn’t write songs for him, he’d commit suicide,” Mr. Niigaki told a crowded news conference. “But I could not bear the thought of skater Takahashi being seen by the world as a co-conspirator in our crime.”
Perhaps just as shocking was Mr. Niigaki’s assertion that Mr. Samuragochi was never deaf. Mr. Niigaki said that he had regular conversations with Mr. Samuragochi, who listened to and commented on his compositions. Mr. Niigaki said the deafness was just “an act that he was performing to the outside world.”
Repeated calls and faxes to Mr. Samuragochi’s lawyers after Mr. Niigaki’s news conference were not answered.
It was unclear exactly how Mr. Samuragochi duped the world since asserting he went deaf in the late 1990s. No one, it seemed, suspected the onetime child music prodigy had not composed his own work. But in past interviews with the news media, Mr. Samuragochi gave an explanation that might explain why no one ever doubted his hearing loss: He said he was completely deaf in one ear, but had some hearing in the other that was assisted by a hearing aid.
The scandal has brought an abrupt fall from grace for Mr. Samuragochi, a man who looked the part of a modern-day composer with his long hair, stylish dark suits and ever-present sunglasses.
Much of Mr. Samuragochi’s appeal seemed to lie in his inspiring life story, especially for a country so fascinated by classical music. Japan is the birthplace of the Suzuki method, and international superstars like the conductor Seiji Ozawa and the pianist Mitsuko Uchida are the source of great pride. Tokyo alone has about 10 professional orchestras, and the Japanese in the past have been among the biggest buyers of recorded classical music.
The public adored Mr. Samuragochi, who appeared to have overcome a serious physical disability, the loss of almost all of his hearing at age 35 because of a degenerative condition, to achieve musical greatness. In a 2007 autobiography titled “Symphony No. 1,” Mr. Samuragochi described himself as the son of an atomic bomb survivor and able to play Beethoven and Bach on the piano by age 10.
Mr. Samuragochi seemed to reach the height of his popularity last year, when Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK, aired a documentary titled “Melody of the Soul: The Composer Who Lost His Hearing” that followed him as he met survivors of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan.
He regularly appeared in many major news media, including Time magazine, which quoted him in a 2001 interview as saying that the loss of hearing turned out to be “a gift from God.”
“I listen to myself,” he told the magazine. “If you trust your inner sense of sound, you create something that is truer. It is like communicating from the heart.”
The disclosure of his deception brought a wave of apologies by major Japanese news media outlets, which expressed regret about failing to uncover Mr. Samuragochi’s deceit.
“We want him to explain his behavior,” said the Japanese daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun in a mea culpa published Thursday, “but the media must also consider our own tendency to fall for tear-jerking stories.”
The episode also shook Japan’s struggling music industry, for whom Mr. Samuragochi had offered a rare respite from declining sales of classical CDs. The Hiroshima symphony sold 180,000 copies in a classical music market where sales of 10,000 constitute a hit.
The music company Nippon Columbia said in a statement that it was “appalled and deeply indignant” and would stop selling his CDs. Orchestras across Japan said they were canceling concerts that featured Mr. Samuragochi’s music. One, the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, said it was considering a lawsuit to retrieve lost ticket sales, an extreme expression of anger in nonlitigious Japan.
The mayor of Hiroshima also threatened to strip Mr. Samuragochi of a “citizen’s award” that the city had given him for promoting the city’s message of opposing nuclear weapons.
“We never imagined this,” the mayor, Kazumi Matsui, was quoted as telling the daily newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun. “We are aghast.”
小保方春子の快挙のニュースの後は、平成のほら吹き男。
湯口は岐阜、辻内は大阪、勝手に同じ枠にするのは感心できない。
http://www.news-postseven.com/archives/20140119_235874.html?PAGE=2
田中も北海道の田舎出身、ダルビッシュも宮城の田舎出身、前田も大阪出身。
成功しなかった原因の後付け。 湯口の場合は、本人が６割、巨人が４割の責任があると思う。 死んだら負けだ。
あの程度の女なら、街中にゴロゴロしていると思うのだが、ファンにとっては違うのか。
最近は芸能番組を見なくなったので、柳原の顔を見たことがない。
http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/8514924/
太っていても美人だから、深田恭子には及ばないが、痩せたらもっと美人になることは間違いなし。
大島が奥さんでは、勃起するまでに時間がかかるだろうし、射精まで行けるのか心配になる。
私も同感。 ベストの演技をして、結果としてメダルが取れれば一番。
http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/8513400/
浅田が金メダルを取る確率は、３３％くらいと思っている。
浅田のメダルのイメージ。
金 ３３％ ３分の１
銀 ５０％ ２分の１
銅 １０％ １０分の１
４位以下 １７％ ６分の１
