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And if the point makes any sense at all, I won't even send my boys out to beat you up in the alley :- )
Agree.  I don't think that ANYbody employed by the Mariners, such as the TV guys, dislike ANYbody because of the color of their skin.  What I do question, however, is whether Asians receive the same benefit of the doubt, same deference to their cultural shift, etc., that other people receive.
Also stipulated:  the tooth-chipping over Iwakuma's PACE, THAT has zero to do with the fact that Johjima, Ichiro and Iwakuma have collectively received less-than-warm welcomes.  Those two issues are completely separate, the awkwardness over NPB players generally, and the industry-wide resentment of deliberate pitching.
When we brought up Newcombe, Paige, etc., it was merely to throw out the idea that non-Eurocentric approaches usually receive EXTRA consideration and in this case, 'tis not so.
Good talk man..... (heh)