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Seibu nights
Dude. Thanks to an incoming typhoon, it is 29 degrees out (like 83-84?) and raining right now. It is awesome. I wish that meant that maybe the heat has broken and we'd be in for more 29-30 days instead of all the 34-35 days we've been having, but it seems unlikely.
And fortunately this week is Seibu Dome games, so the Fighters won't be rained out. Well, maybe that is unfortunate. It would be nice to have a makeup game happening a little later on. But whatever.
Yesterday after school I went to the Seibu Dome for a Fighters game; I was running late and got to the area around 6:25pm or so... and it turned out that for some fanclub-related thing (half of my Fighters friends are in the Seibu fan club because you get such ridiculous discounts there that it is worth it if you are planning to go to all 12 Fighters-Lions games), they had extra tickets to this game in particular, so I got woken up on the train by a phone call from Watanabe like "Hey, don't buy a ticket when you get here -- I will meet you at the gate and give you one", and I'm like "...okay?" So, I got in for free! And even better it was an extra ticket for the infield, so I got to wander around through all the new crap at the Seibu Dome... I had been to it last year but this was my first time this year to get into that area, though it hasn't changed much, but I did use the nice new bathrooms that they put in, which are really quite nice. I sat in the seat by 1st base for about 5 minutes, decided it was too hot, and started wandering back. At least there is an elevator so you don't have to climb the stands anymore, which is one of the worst things about the Seibu Dome.
(You can only go to the infield if you have an infield ticket, and only to the REAL infield stuff if you have an infield reserved ticket, so even the time I had an unreserved ticket, I couldn't get to the new stuff. It is somewhat annoying that they put in all these new restaurants and stores, and only some people can actually access them.)
I got miso katsudon for dinner and headed back to the outfield; the Fighters scored 4 runs in the inning where I was cheering before going infield-wise, so it was 4-0, but then the bullpen gave up 5 runs in the bottom of the 7th :( Yoshio Itoi hit a home run in the top of the 8th to tie it back up, and then the Fighters gave up the ship in the bottom of the 9th on an error and then a bases-loaded sayonara sac fly by Hiroyuki Nakajima.
Rode home and slowly lost our group along the way on the train, until I got home and pretty much crashed.
Time to repeat for two more days, and that is it for Fighters for me this year, it seems...
And fortunately this week is Seibu Dome games, so the Fighters won't be rained out. Well, maybe that is unfortunate. It would be nice to have a makeup game happening a little later on. But whatever.
Yesterday after school I went to the Seibu Dome for a Fighters game; I was running late and got to the area around 6:25pm or so... and it turned out that for some fanclub-related thing (half of my Fighters friends are in the Seibu fan club because you get such ridiculous discounts there that it is worth it if you are planning to go to all 12 Fighters-Lions games), they had extra tickets to this game in particular, so I got woken up on the train by a phone call from Watanabe like "Hey, don't buy a ticket when you get here -- I will meet you at the gate and give you one", and I'm like "...okay?" So, I got in for free! And even better it was an extra ticket for the infield, so I got to wander around through all the new crap at the Seibu Dome... I had been to it last year but this was my first time this year to get into that area, though it hasn't changed much, but I did use the nice new bathrooms that they put in, which are really quite nice. I sat in the seat by 1st base for about 5 minutes, decided it was too hot, and started wandering back. At least there is an elevator so you don't have to climb the stands anymore, which is one of the worst things about the Seibu Dome.
(You can only go to the infield if you have an infield ticket, and only to the REAL infield stuff if you have an infield reserved ticket, so even the time I had an unreserved ticket, I couldn't get to the new stuff. It is somewhat annoying that they put in all these new restaurants and stores, and only some people can actually access them.)
I got miso katsudon for dinner and headed back to the outfield; the Fighters scored 4 runs in the inning where I was cheering before going infield-wise, so it was 4-0, but then the bullpen gave up 5 runs in the bottom of the 7th :( Yoshio Itoi hit a home run in the top of the 8th to tie it back up, and then the Fighters gave up the ship in the bottom of the 9th on an error and then a bases-loaded sayonara sac fly by Hiroyuki Nakajima.
Rode home and slowly lost our group along the way on the train, until I got home and pretty much crashed.
Time to repeat for two more days, and that is it for Fighters for me this year, it seems...