Couple Things

1) A quick follow up to the "Hory Kow" shirt - the Sun Times, not surprisingly, absolutely slammed the guy who makes them while working in some diggs on all Cubs fans.

Great read, my favorite part:

Regardless, it's not funny. The image feeds not only ugly, arrogant and ignorant Japanese stereotypes, but also the stereotype of the obnoxious, profane, drunken, booing, garbage-throwing Cubs fan.

How much truth is there in either image? And how funny is either one?

Kolbusz said he's ''indifferent'' to the image on the shirt.
''I'm making money,'' he said. ''It doesn't offend me. If other people are offended by it, it's just a silly T-shirt. Nobody is trying to offend anybody.''

Which is probably true -- and, if so, sadly ignorant.

2) As you have probably noticed, there haven't been any updates on the blog lately. Unfortunately that is probably the outlook for the foreseeable future. Between my daily routine of working/commuting 11 hours and spending over 3 hours watching the Brewers (on my laptop no less) there hasn't been enough time or motivation to write new material for TYI outside of analyzing each individual game (done much better by sites like RightFieldBleachers.com and BrewCrewBall.com).

This may change later in the year so feel free to check back periodically. Meanwhile thanks to everyone who has read/commented/emailed/linked TYI the past few months.