(Jock Strap) Ben Gibbard writes a song for Ichiro

Back before he was Benjamin, Ben Gibbard wrote an ode to Ichiro Suzuki. A little ditty he wrote "a few years ago" that now seems rather prescient in the wake of Ichiro's trade from Gibbard's beloved Mariners to the New York Yankees. Like most baseball fans — as in a fan of the sport over a specific team — I lamented the trade as another case of the rich getting richer (remember, socialism has been proven to work in sports), but as the details of the trade have emer...

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