the exact same thing when I read that name for the first time. How cool would it be if the Padres have a character from Street Fighter pitching. If that doesn’t make people come and see the game I don’t think anything else will.

I went to a minor league game when he was on the Durham Bulls, and there were a ton of people behind the Bulls’ dugout screaming hadoken whenever they saw him.

Ryu’s other notoriety, other than throwing fireballs, was he got into some deep trouble with the ASPCA when he hadoken’d a bird while on the Cubs organization a few years ago. And in his first ML appearance he gave up like 6 ER to the Braves and also allowed a home run to Marcus Giles. MARCUS!

Think of the ribs!