In Japan He Actually Needs a Disguise

In case you haven't heard the story by now, former Mets manager Bobby Valentine is a hero in Japan where he manages the Chiba Lotte Marines. There have been many stories about the strange hero worship Valentine enjoys over there, but now we'll get to see it live.
ESPN2 is airing the documentary "The Zen of Bobby V" tonight (Bpbby V's 58th birthday) at 9pm.
For more on how this documentary came about, read Richard Sandomir's article in the New York Times.







By the way, I am enjoying ESPN's recent strategy of buying a lot of documentaries on the cheap instead of producing it's overblown, overdramatized ESPN Originals like "3" and "The Junction Boys."
"Black Magic" and "The Streak" were excellent, but I feel that ESPN is not doing enough to promote these movies (they don't even have a web page set up for Bobby V) and they are only playing them once, in prime time, when most of their viewers are watching games or other TV shows.