Mickey and Matsui

Lookin very American (baggy jeans, curved lid, thermal)... great guy and great ball player...

I like Matsui he always has a smile on his face.

There's no way to look at this photo and not smile.

I guess now they'll have to get a L.A. Angel Mickey Mouse at Tokyo Disneyland.

trying to drum up some tourism me thinks

seems like a very nice guy...nice picture!

You win a championship and you say "I'm going to Disneyland". Glad to see Matsui fulfil his dreams. Hope he'll do well with the LA Angels

A decent guy and a good player; good luck to him

Nice pic! And I didn't know Mickey was a lefty.

Congrats on 1000 MLB hits.

Hideki Matsui poses with Mickey Mouse

No, he doesn't. He stands next to a man on minimum wage in a costume. Let's get it right. It's a man, on very low wages, who was forbidden to speak to Matsui.

He waves and nods for a living, in a suit of foam, and is forbidden to join a union.

There is no such thing as Mickey Mouse. It is a man in a foam suit.

The photo looks fake.

very fake. where do both of their shadows go?

I don't know if it is a fake but somebody sure worked on it and not too skillfully. I could have done that in 5 minutes in photoshop for free and it would have looked better.

On closer examination; it is a fake; see the line traversing across the top. The background is a painting.

IvanCoughalot- The reason people at DL earn minimum wage is there is a line a mile long of eager teenagers who will gladly take the job... basic economics. Standing in a costume and waving isn't rocket science and will never pay as such.

Matsui is integrating into American society. Good for him. Language held him back for a long while. He looks really happy these days. New York is too frickin cold. Southern California is heaven in many ways.