I was going to email you about that. Thanks.
My translation was “Stopping luck” but I knew that wasn’t quite right.

I have forgotten almost all the Japanese I had in college.

Corrected.
I posted before Fukudome’s agent explained his reasons.

And lay off the sour grapes. They’re not healthy.

No they didn’t. The Sox offered $2mm more than the Cubs. Fukudome reportedly wanted to be the first Japanese player on the franchise, and since the Sox have already had two, including one who had won a World Series, he went with the Cubs.

A big F-U to Fukudome.

And his family name probably means ’stay lucky’. The problem with kanji is that it often has several meanings… but ‘fuku’ is usually translated as ‘luck’, and ‘tome’ or ‘dome’ as ‘to stay’ - so together ’stay lucky’. Good name for a ball player.

Stress is on the ‘DOH’, and the last ‘me’ is more like ‘meh’ rather than ‘may’. Pronunciation is ‘foo-koo-DOH-meh’…

And I agree - he’ll probably go with Kosuke on his back. He’s a good player, and I think he’ll do well at Chicago. Nice get.

“Fukudome spelled backwards is… E-MOD…ehh…EM-OD…uuhh… Emo-DUK-uf….aahh, screw it, Steve…just give me a budweiser and toast our new Asian!”