For those not into fantasy baseball, come back tomorrow.  That is, unless you have interest in the marital status of Shohei Ohtani.  If so, read on. If I can be condemned for wasting any time, it is in fantasy baseball.  I was once into more, including football, basketball and golf.  I pretty much now only bother with major league baseball.  Why? During summer months, there is no University of Hawaii sports.  Baseball begins at the end of March and continues into October. One problem is that I travel in March and April, as I again will this year.  It's difficult to keep up with U.S. sports when I'm around the world. There are several competitions which cost money.  I even flew to Las Vegas one year to participate in drafting players.  Now I only stick to ESPN for MLB and NFL, as they're free.   This year I will again draft three fantasy baseball teams. As I indicated at the top, one problem with this free ESPN baseball competition is that it wastes a lot time.  I need to ad

I wrote about Shohei Ohtani five years ago . Shohei came to America from the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters ( also produced Yu Darvish, 6'5", to the left, and both wore #11 ), and recorded the fastest pitch in Japan:  102.5 MPH.  He reached 99 MPH in high school.  He began his professional career in 2013 as both a left-handed hitter and right-handed pitcher.  He   signed a contract with the Angels last year   for only $545,000/year, plus a one time bonus of $2.3 million.  If he had waited until the age of 25, he would have gotten more than $200 million in a 6-8 year contract.    However, he will get his share of endorsements.  The Ham Fighters will receive $20 million for allowing him play in the USA.   Oh, he is single, humble, and with movie-star good looks.   There are many Ohtani books .  If you are into cards, here is a source of  five of them with a wristband gift bundle . There is thus nothing much I can add to what is in print.  So here are some tidbits of interest: In h

I'll start with an old, but new, topic.  This past Sunday I posted on   eternal life .  Well,   Time   reported on   The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever.   Absolutely fascinating article about Bryan Johnson ( here below with Kate Tolo, the chief marketing officer for his company, Blueprin t), and to quote: Johnson, 46, is a centimillionaire tech entrepreneur who has spent most of the last three years in pursuit of a singular goal: don’t die. During that time, he’s spent more than $4 million developing a life-extension system called Blueprint, in which he outsources every decision involving his body to a team of doctors, who use data to develop a strict health regimen to reduce what Johnson calls his “biological age.” That system includes downing 111 pills every day, wearing a baseball cap that shoots red light into his scalp, collecting his own stool samples, and sleeping with a tiny jet pack attached to his penis to monitor his nighttime erections. Johnson thinks of any act tha