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Saturday Sunburn
Went down to Yokohama Stadium to catch some of the late qualifiers for Kanagawa prefecture. By a bizarre coincidence, the two schools I saw play each other today both have current pitchers on the Boston Red Sox -- Yokohama's Daisuke Matsuzaka and Yokohama Shodai's Junichi Tazawa. I sat on the Shodai side because it was slightly less crowded, by which I mean it was still packed, but at least I could find a seat. Shodai was doomed from the start, but they never gave up. They were down 5-0 after the first inning and 10-3 after 2 innings and 12-3 after 3 innings. But rather than be like "fuck it, it's hot out, let's just lose and go home", they kept fighting back -- in the bottom of the 5th it was still 12-3 and if Yokohama scored one more run, it woulda been called 13-3 on the 10-run advantage, but Shodai wouldn't budge, so it went to the 6th inning, and they managed to hold it at 12-3 then too. Onwards to the 7th, where if they didn't score at least 2 runs, it would be called in 7 innings with a 7-run lead. So what happens? Igarashi hits a 2-run homer and they drive in another run to make it 12-6, and so the game goes on to the bottom of the 7th and they hold yet again! They scored 2 runs off Yokohama freshman lefty Yamauchi in the top of the 8th to make it 12-8, but then the floodgates opened and Yokohama scored 3 in the bottom of the 8th to win 15-8.
It was a seriously exciting game even though Shodai pretty much had no hope of winning. I don't know if they give a "fighting spirit" award for this tourney, but I think they earned it today if so.
Unfortunately, with all of that stuff, the game went 3 hours long, and so after 3 hours in the hot blazing sun and 97-degree heat, I knew there was NO way I was going to be able to endure another 30 minutes for the second game to start, even if I only intended to stay for 1-2 innings tops to take photos. I had gone through one ice bottle, one water bottle, and half of my last ice bottle, by that point. Yokohama Stadium has no shade except in the concourse, and the concourse was packed with people either leaving the first game, coming in to the second game, or taking shade/bathroom/etc breaks between games.
So I left and walked down the street to Certe, the mall that has the Baystars Team Store in it, because I knew they have a nice women's bathroom on the 2nd floor that was unlikely to be crowded like the ones at the stadium. Fortunately, I was right. I also had a HUGE headache from the likely onset of heatstroke, as well as a lot more sunburn than I thought. Guess sweating out all the sunscreen doesn't help. And both my shirt and pants were SOAKED with sweat -- I looked disgusting, really. So I washed myself off to some extent with the sinks, at least washing my arms, face, neck, etc, with soap, and I put on more deodorant, and I wet part of my towel and put it on my forehead and just stood there like that for a minute or two until I felt a little bit better.
Then I went to the Baystars Team Store and ended up getting a Shonan Sea Rex program book but no actual Baystars stuff because all my favorite players are in the minors with them.
Had lunch at Freshness Burger because it's in Certe and seemed like a good place to just sit in the airconditioning and try to become human again. I took some Tylenol but the headache never did subside, even after eating some food and cooling down and all. I staggered to the train, got a seat, and the headache went away a little bit after I fell asleep on the train, but... eh.
Came home to collapse.
Eventually, once the sun went down, I did leave the house again to get dinner at Heiroku. I also stopped by Lawson's to buy baseball tickets to some things later this summer, so I think my August plans will get set in stone for real... and then I also went to Yokado, where I ended up buying another pair of khaki capris because I'm sick of soaking through the one pair with sweat and not wanting to wear them a second day :)
I shoulda gone to sleep early tonight, but instead I decided I should work on packing -- and what that actually entailed was deciding what stuff to take with me this time -- and THAT led to me going through a whole bunch of stacks of papers and magazines and other things in my room. So now my room is a lot cleaner and I have made a stack of stuff to pack, and also a stack of stuff to keep. But I got kinda lost in the time doing it and it's also 1am, eek. I wanted to get up early to go to Jingu tomorrow, it may be a madhouse for the East Tokyo semifinals. Hm.
It was a seriously exciting game even though Shodai pretty much had no hope of winning. I don't know if they give a "fighting spirit" award for this tourney, but I think they earned it today if so.
Unfortunately, with all of that stuff, the game went 3 hours long, and so after 3 hours in the hot blazing sun and 97-degree heat, I knew there was NO way I was going to be able to endure another 30 minutes for the second game to start, even if I only intended to stay for 1-2 innings tops to take photos. I had gone through one ice bottle, one water bottle, and half of my last ice bottle, by that point. Yokohama Stadium has no shade except in the concourse, and the concourse was packed with people either leaving the first game, coming in to the second game, or taking shade/bathroom/etc breaks between games.
So I left and walked down the street to Certe, the mall that has the Baystars Team Store in it, because I knew they have a nice women's bathroom on the 2nd floor that was unlikely to be crowded like the ones at the stadium. Fortunately, I was right. I also had a HUGE headache from the likely onset of heatstroke, as well as a lot more sunburn than I thought. Guess sweating out all the sunscreen doesn't help. And both my shirt and pants were SOAKED with sweat -- I looked disgusting, really. So I washed myself off to some extent with the sinks, at least washing my arms, face, neck, etc, with soap, and I put on more deodorant, and I wet part of my towel and put it on my forehead and just stood there like that for a minute or two until I felt a little bit better.
Then I went to the Baystars Team Store and ended up getting a Shonan Sea Rex program book but no actual Baystars stuff because all my favorite players are in the minors with them.
Had lunch at Freshness Burger because it's in Certe and seemed like a good place to just sit in the airconditioning and try to become human again. I took some Tylenol but the headache never did subside, even after eating some food and cooling down and all. I staggered to the train, got a seat, and the headache went away a little bit after I fell asleep on the train, but... eh.
Came home to collapse.
Eventually, once the sun went down, I did leave the house again to get dinner at Heiroku. I also stopped by Lawson's to buy baseball tickets to some things later this summer, so I think my August plans will get set in stone for real... and then I also went to Yokado, where I ended up buying another pair of khaki capris because I'm sick of soaking through the one pair with sweat and not wanting to wear them a second day :)
I shoulda gone to sleep early tonight, but instead I decided I should work on packing -- and what that actually entailed was deciding what stuff to take with me this time -- and THAT led to me going through a whole bunch of stacks of papers and magazines and other things in my room. So now my room is a lot cleaner and I have made a stack of stuff to pack, and also a stack of stuff to keep. But I got kinda lost in the time doing it and it's also 1am, eek. I wanted to get up early to go to Jingu tomorrow, it may be a madhouse for the East Tokyo semifinals. Hm.
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