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ook from presenting them with comment features wh en they look at your posts. Maybe they’ll get the hint. ~~~~~~~~~~ <strong>NYT</strong>-<strong>1201</strong> Brilliant and Bold, in Any Language ... By DAVID WA LDSTEIN What makes Bobby Valentine's selection as Boston's new manager so intriguing is his curiosity and hi s daring, best exemplified by his time spent manag ing in Japan. ===== notyet (2 pages) Early in his tenure as manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan, Bobby Valentine decided to run a drill to practice pickoff moves at second base. H e instructed his pitchers to throw behind the runn er, but for some reason they refused to do as he a sked. As Valentine grew frustrated over the inability of his pitchers to follow his instructions, Satoru K omiyama, a veteran who had played for Valentine wh en he managed the Mets, came forward to offer an e xplanation. "We will be happy to do it in games," he told Vale ntine. "But in practice we don’t want to injure ou r teammates by throwing the ball at their behinds." It was not the first problem with translation that Valentine encountered in Japan, nor would it be h is last. But he would eventually learn 2,042 kanji characters out of an instructional book, practici ng them in the dirt with the toe of his cleats dur ing practice, and by the time he made his tearful goodbye speech to the team’s fans in 2009, he did so in Japanese. "There’s a lot of guys who go over there just look ing to get a paycheck," said the current Mets mana ger Terry Collins, who managed the Orix Buffaloes for two seasons in Japan and competed there agains
t Valentine. "Bobby completely embraced everything about it and had the mind-set to succeed there. I wish I had listened to him more." When the Boston Red Sox began courting Valentine i n early November to replace Terry Francona as thei r next manager, he was cited for his baseball bril liance. Valentine is indeed smart and observant, b ut so are some other people in major league dugouts. What sets Valentine apart from his peers, what mak es his selection as Boston’s new manager so intrig uing, is his curiosity. And maybe his daring. And those traits are probably best exemplified by his willingness to not just manage in Japan, but to pl unge headfirst into its culture, both accepting an d challenging it all at once. "There is no question that he is more worldly than other managers," said Steve Phillips, who was Val entine’s former boss with the Mets, went to the Wo rld Series with him and now accepts responsibility for the friction in their relationship. "It’s not even close," Phillips added of Valentine ’s one-of-a-kind approach. "His enthusiasm for new concepts, new ideas is unparalleled, and he wants them to succeed." Valentine became an adored figure in Japan, which will not be an easy feat to duplicate in Boston, w here the baseball culture is intense and entrenche d, where the current roster contains a lot of vete ran players, not all of whom may want to do things any differently. But that is unlikely to deter Valentine, or inhibi t him. He took on Japan. Why not Beantown? "I think he’ll be great in Boston," said John Blak e, a longtime Texas Rangers executive who was with Valentine when he managed that team and who has a
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