Everyone in the media likes Sam Onoda, who for years has worked for NHK and followed just about every Japanese player for the Japanese TV network.
Sam loves him some barbecue, so he has been a natural fit covering Yu Darvish with the Texas Rangers. Sam’s fallback job, if his TV work dries up, is to open a Texas barbecue restaurant in Tokyo.
I would travel for that grand opening.
Anyhoo, Sam was in town Friday for the latest Darvish start, so he and I headed over to Jack’s BBQ close to Safeco Field.