"Hit the sauce a little too hard?" Majima pries. Rude? Maybe. He spends way to much time maintaining propriety at home to keep up the act here in the Nexus.

"Yeah, I used to follow baseball. Ain't had the time lately, though. Shame, 'cause my boys -- the Seibu Lions -- have been tearin' it up the past few years. Made a comeback after gettin' whupped by those Tigers in '85."

He shrugs. "In my Japan, anyway."