Hideki Matsui Gets Married! We Think....

Hideki Matsui is one of my favorite baseball players. Before playing for the Yankees, he was one of the most popular players in Japan and a huge celebrity. He loves baseball and baseball fans, perhaps even more than his famously large porn collection. All of this means I was very happy to hear that Godzilla got married in Manhattan yesterday. It all came as a huge surprise to his teammates. From Peter Abraham's blog at Hudson Valley News:

Hideki Matsui not only got married yesterday, he completely suckered Bobby Abreu and Derek Jeter.

The three made a bet at the beginning of spring training over who would get married first. Whoever got hitched first would win. But there was a caveat: the losers could keep their money if they got married as well.

Abreu, because he already has a girlfriend, would get six months. Jeter, who is single, would get a year....

..."Derek has a year or I win," he said.

Asked whether he got married just to win the bet, Matsui let out a loud laugh. "Maybe," he said.

The prospect of Matsui getting married to win a bet would go down as one of the greatest spring training pranks of all time, but I don't think that's the case. Matsui was very proud of what happened, and showed everybody a picture of his new wife...sketched on a piece of paper. The press release says that she has a reputable position at a highly respected company, so I am happy she won't bring shame upon Hideki's ancestors, at least until he asks her to star in one of his movies.