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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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KEYWORDS: baseball; baseballs; bra; feather; gay; goldeneagles; japanese; underwear; weird; yatta
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posted on
03/25/2005 6:06:32 AM PST
by
kahoutek
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...
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posted on
03/25/2005 6:07:42 AM PST
by
mhking
(If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!)
To: mhking
Why is she holding a feather?
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posted on
03/25/2005 6:08:15 AM PST
by
SittinYonder
(Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
To: kahoutek
Most Japanese women I have seen do not need a Bra.
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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 .)
To: mhking
I'd want one if I wore those instruments of torture to woman's bosoms.
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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.")
To: SittinYonder
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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)
To: SittinYonder
It's easier than holding the whole chicken................
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posted on
03/25/2005 6:09:19 AM PST
by
kahoutek
To: SittinYonder
8
posted on
03/25/2005 6:09:24 AM PST
by
day10
(Rules cannot substitute for character.)
To: SittinYonder
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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.")
To: SittinYonder
Why is she holding a feather?[shrug]
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posted on
03/25/2005 6:09:41 AM PST
by
mhking
(If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!)
To: texasflower
What does an Eagle feather have to do with anything?
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posted on
03/25/2005 6:10:18 AM PST
by
SittinYonder
(Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
To: SittinYonder
Why is she holding a feather? Typically nastii weather.
To: SittinYonder
Why is she holding a feather?
-----------------------------------
Because it might rain.
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posted on
03/25/2005 6:11:44 AM PST
by
wtc911
("I would like at least to know his name.")
To: SittinYonder
"The Golden Eagles......." Team name.
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posted on
03/25/2005 6:11:53 AM PST
by
kahoutek
To: TheBigB; presidio9; beyond the sea; Tijeras_Slim
To: kahoutek
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posted on
03/25/2005 6:12:24 AM PST
by
SittinYonder
(Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
03/25/2005 6:12:36 AM PST
by
wtc911
("I would like at least to know his name.")
To: martin_fierro
I see you have found your thread.
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posted on
03/25/2005 6:12:54 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
To: kahoutek
What's the big deal? A New York Yankee executive's father invented a male Bra called the Bro many years ago.
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posted on
03/25/2005 6:13:22 AM PST
by
hflynn
To: bmwcyle
I'm innocent, I tell you. INNOCENT.
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