Just when you thought the Japanese couldn't get any weirder you find the above picture. It shows Daisuke Matsuzaka holding his award for the Special Prize at The Best Jewelry Wearer Awards. I kid you not.
The award is handed out at the International Jewelry Tokyo 2008 Fair, now in it's 19th year. The Best Jewelry Wearer awards go to people who are deemed to have a keen sense of fashion or who just look good wearing jewelry.
The question then becomes: When they praised Daisuke for his jewelry wearing abilities were they referring to his titanium necklace? With whom were they comparing him? Major league ballplayers? Japanese ballplayers? He wasn't deemed the best man at wearing jewelry, that honor went to Shosuke Tanihara, so who is he better than?
More importantly, will the honor go to his head? Will he show up to Spring Training covered in bling? Will he dole out advice to the unwashed, unrefined masses of Americans with which he surrounds himself with daily? (Not that some of them couldn't use a little advice *looking at you kitten*.) And will his brethren on the mound take his proffered advice before the massive amounts of hemp start to look more like neck rings than necklaces?
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