WORLD SERIES

The series is over, and it's time for congratulations.

First of all, to the manager. No one thought he could do it. I bet a lot of people didn't even know he was trying.

For the first time, a foreigner has managed a team that won the Japanese World Series.

That manager, of course, is former Mets skipper Bobby Valentine.

Now that his Marines have swept the series, he'd like to put the "World" in "World Series."

Bobby believes his team is as good as these guys.

They may well be. But I saw the footage, and they jump up and down differently at the end of games over there. They all jump at the same time, in synch, as opposed to randomly, like MLB players do.

Isn't the world strange?