How Donnie Met Manny Ramirez in Japan + Hawaiian Sumo Champion Blows Us Away | Drop A Pin Ep. 55
Drop A Pin
Barstool Sports
4.9 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
This week on Drop A Pin we are venturing to Japan, in the first of many episodes diving into this country with extremely interesting cultures and history. This week we talk about the baseball scene in Japan and how Donnie met Manny Ramirez while he was playing for the Kochi fighting dogs. We then dive into their cafe culture and some of the unique wildlife Donnie has experienced in different Japanese cities. We are also joined by legendary Hawaiian born sumo wrestler Konishiki. He was the first non-Japanese-born wrestler to reach the prestigious rank of ōzeki and was featured in Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift, he tells us everything you've ever wondered to know about Sumo culture. Timestamps: (00:00:41) Pre Boarding (Show Start) (00:03:49) Donnies First Trip to Japan (00:04:41) How Donnie Met Many Ramirez (00:16:43) Japanese Baseball Culture (00:27:01) Japanese Trains (00:31:21) Our Wildest Conversation Ever (00:34:02) Convenience Store Food (00:36:32) Tsukiji Fish Market (00:48:18) Japanese Cafe Culture (00:52:17) Japanese "Idols" (01:01:08) The Deer of Nara (01:03:46) Snow Monkeys of Nagano (01:08:43) Konishiki Interview (01:18:35) Day to Day Life of A Sumo (01:26:18) Can sumo wrestlers play in the NFL (01:31:58) How Konishiki got into Sumo (01:40:59) Konishiki's Achievements Head to https://BlueChew.com for details and safety info. Get your first month of BlueChew FREE Just use promo code DROP at checkout and pay five bucks for shipping Follow Drop A Pin! IG: TheDropAPinShow X: DropAPinShow Tik Tok: TheDropAPinShow Follow The Wonton Don! IG: thewontondon TikTok: thewontondon X: @donniedoesworld FB: https://www.facebook.com/DonnieDoes/ Follow Uncle Chaps! IG: @unclechaps TikTok: @unclechaps X: @UncleChaps
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Barstool listeners, you can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. |
| 0:05.4 | Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:08.2 | I heard rumblings that Manny Ramirez was playing in the Japanese minor leagues. |
| 0:13.5 | Yeah, he played for a team called the Cochee Fighting Dog. |
| 0:16.5 | Knowing that I would be able to meet Manny Ramirez in Japan of all places, playing in the minors of all leagues, was like a dream come true. |
| 0:25.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.7 | You know, he helped break the curse. |
| 0:27.6 | There wasn't no curse. |
| 0:28.8 | Yeah, there was never a curse. |
| 0:30.3 | It's all superstition. |
| 0:33.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. |
| 0:36.1 | Fasten those seatbelts and strap in. |
| 0:38.5 | We'll get into those margaritas asaph. |
| 0:42.1 | Hello, bonjour. |
| 0:45.0 | Chau bella, madame, monsieur, |
| 0:47.0 | Salim and salam. |
| 0:49.8 | Hey, how are you? |
| 0:50.9 | Welcome back to drop a pin. |
| 0:53.0 | Very excited because today we're talking about |
| 0:55.1 | Japan, a spot where me and Chaps have a lot of experience. But we're not going to be zeroing in |
| 1:02.1 | on Okinawa. That deserves to be its own episode because you live there for so long. So this is just going |
| 1:07.6 | to be Japan in general. We'll probably talk a lot of Tokyo, and we'll definitely talk about my first time in Japan |
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