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Underwear maker celebrates new Japanese baseball team with special bra
Yahoo! News ^ | Fri, Mar 25, 2005 | Offbeat - AFP

Posted on 03/25/2005 6:06:30 AM PST by kahoutek

TOKYO (AFP) - An underwear maker celebrated the birth of Japan's first new professional baseball team in 50 years with a commemorative bra shaped like baseballs each bearing the team mascots.

The bra is made of synthetic leather and has dolls of the team's furry mascots "Clutch" and female "Clucchina" clutching the side of each bra cup turned baseball.

Completing the theme, the bra is trimmed with a real eagle's feather, underwear maker Triumph said.

The single commemorative bra will be sold by an internet auction closing Wednesday, a day ahead of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles' home debut in the northern city of Sendai.

"We would like the lucky individual who bids down this single set edition ... to wear the bra and support the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles at their opening game in Sendai," a Triumph statement said.

Bidding began Friday with a symbolic offer of 88 yen, the uniform number of the Golden Eagles' manager. Eighty-eight yen is equal to 83 US cents.

The Golden Eagles were formed after the merger of two money-losing teams in Japanese baseball. The national sport is in crisis due to soaring salaries and in September the first strike by players.

Nippon Professional Baseball chose as the new team's owner Internet shopping site Rakuten, which will join the old boys club of Japanese pro baseball dominated by railway firms, media conglomerates and food companies.


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1 posted on 03/25/2005 6:06:32 AM PST by kahoutek
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

2 posted on 03/25/2005 6:07:42 AM PST by mhking (If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!)
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To: mhking

Why is she holding a feather?


3 posted on 03/25/2005 6:08:15 AM PST by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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To: kahoutek

Most Japanese women I have seen do not need a Bra.


4 posted on 03/25/2005 6:09:01 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: mhking

I'd want one if I wore those instruments of torture to woman's bosoms.


5 posted on 03/25/2005 6:09:06 AM PST by cyborg (Sudanese refugee,"Mr.Schiavo I disagree with your opinion about not feeling pain when you starve.")
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To: SittinYonder

Eagle feather I guess.


6 posted on 03/25/2005 6:09:09 AM PST by texasflower ("America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." President George W. Bush 01/20/05)
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To: SittinYonder

It's easier than holding the whole chicken................


7 posted on 03/25/2005 6:09:19 AM PST by kahoutek
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To: SittinYonder

Eagle feather?


8 posted on 03/25/2005 6:09:24 AM PST by day10 (Rules cannot substitute for character.)
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To: SittinYonder

Eagle feather maybe?


9 posted on 03/25/2005 6:09:38 AM PST by cyborg (Sudanese refugee,"Mr.Schiavo I disagree with your opinion about not feeling pain when you starve.")
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To: SittinYonder
Why is she holding a feather?

[shrug]

10 posted on 03/25/2005 6:09:41 AM PST by mhking (If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!)
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To: texasflower

What does an Eagle feather have to do with anything?


11 posted on 03/25/2005 6:10:18 AM PST by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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To: SittinYonder
Why is she holding a feather?

Typically nastii weather.

12 posted on 03/25/2005 6:11:27 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: SittinYonder
Why is she holding a feather?

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Because it might rain.

13 posted on 03/25/2005 6:11:44 AM PST by wtc911 ("I would like at least to know his name.")
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To: SittinYonder
"The Golden Eagles......." Team name.
14 posted on 03/25/2005 6:11:53 AM PST by kahoutek
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To: TheBigB; presidio9; beyond the sea; Tijeras_Slim

Get over here.


15 posted on 03/25/2005 6:12:00 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: kahoutek

How did you know that?


16 posted on 03/25/2005 6:12:24 AM PST by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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To: martin_fierro

Darn, beat me to it.


17 posted on 03/25/2005 6:12:36 AM PST by wtc911 ("I would like at least to know his name.")
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To: martin_fierro

I see you have found your thread.


18 posted on 03/25/2005 6:12:54 AM PST by bmwcyle (Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
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To: kahoutek

What's the big deal? A New York Yankee executive's father invented a male Bra called the Bro many years ago.


19 posted on 03/25/2005 6:13:22 AM PST by hflynn
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To: bmwcyle

I'm innocent, I tell you. INNOCENT.


20 posted on 03/25/2005 6:14:03 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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