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Third time's the charm!
Mar. 19th, 2006 01:56 amToday, I overslept. Yeah, on a Saturday, slept until 2:30pm, so I didn't really get anything done this afternoon, I'll have to head out to do things tomorrow.
I went to Jeff's birthday thing at Tutta Bella pizza. Sat at the end of the table with Emi, Julianne, Oren, and Jeff, didn't really get to talk to the other people much although I went to bug Wooko at one point. There were like 14 people though, we went through something like 7 pizzas, four salads, two tiramisu and a whole bunch of gelato. It was pretty good, not really my kind of pizza though.
I ducked out of going to Tacoma afterwards for two main reasons: 1) I have the pager from work and am supposed to be able to get into the office in an hour or less at any time, which Tacoma is at about the range of, but I'm being paranoid and 2) I wanted to go watch the WBC semi-final game where Japan and Korea were facing off for the third time!
So Oren and I went back to his house after dinner and watched the baseball game! It was aweeeeeeesome. I was wearing a Koji Uehara jersey and rooting like crazy for Japan. I guess in some ways they were really fortunate to be playing in Petco Park. One inning I watched as three times in a row, the Korean players hit a ball high and far into the outfield and it was caught a few feet short of the wall... all of which would have been way out of just about any reasonable stadium. I'd shout "NO!!!" and then "whew!" However, that didn't stop Fukudome from pinch-hitting a homer, and Tamura from smacking one into the deepest part of the field as well. There was this 7th inning that just went on and on and on as the Japanese players kept beating up the Koreans.
On the other hand, it was raining pretty hard there, and they had a rain delay in the 8th inning for 45 minutes, during which they showed highlights of the Dominican-Cuba game from earlier in the day.
The game came back, Uehara didn't, but Yabuta and Otsuka managed to keep the shutout. 6-0 Japan. Wooooo.
Monday night, they play Cuba. Sweet. Cuba used their two best pitchers today, but Japan will still have Matsuzaka and Watanabe to kick butt for them. It should be interesting.
The best part was that ESPN kept airing the Roger Clemens commercial with him saying "there's no way in hell we'll lose this, let's show 'em how Americans play baseball". Heh.
After the WBC game, Oren and I watched the first episode of the GTO dorama. I was dead right, the head teacher guy I'd seen before in Minbo, one of Itami Juzo's movies (the best one, in my opinion). And Matsushima Nanako looks so young.
Anyway, whee. GO JAPAN!
I went to Jeff's birthday thing at Tutta Bella pizza. Sat at the end of the table with Emi, Julianne, Oren, and Jeff, didn't really get to talk to the other people much although I went to bug Wooko at one point. There were like 14 people though, we went through something like 7 pizzas, four salads, two tiramisu and a whole bunch of gelato. It was pretty good, not really my kind of pizza though.
I ducked out of going to Tacoma afterwards for two main reasons: 1) I have the pager from work and am supposed to be able to get into the office in an hour or less at any time, which Tacoma is at about the range of, but I'm being paranoid and 2) I wanted to go watch the WBC semi-final game where Japan and Korea were facing off for the third time!
So Oren and I went back to his house after dinner and watched the baseball game! It was aweeeeeeesome. I was wearing a Koji Uehara jersey and rooting like crazy for Japan. I guess in some ways they were really fortunate to be playing in Petco Park. One inning I watched as three times in a row, the Korean players hit a ball high and far into the outfield and it was caught a few feet short of the wall... all of which would have been way out of just about any reasonable stadium. I'd shout "NO!!!" and then "whew!" However, that didn't stop Fukudome from pinch-hitting a homer, and Tamura from smacking one into the deepest part of the field as well. There was this 7th inning that just went on and on and on as the Japanese players kept beating up the Koreans.
On the other hand, it was raining pretty hard there, and they had a rain delay in the 8th inning for 45 minutes, during which they showed highlights of the Dominican-Cuba game from earlier in the day.
The game came back, Uehara didn't, but Yabuta and Otsuka managed to keep the shutout. 6-0 Japan. Wooooo.
Monday night, they play Cuba. Sweet. Cuba used their two best pitchers today, but Japan will still have Matsuzaka and Watanabe to kick butt for them. It should be interesting.
The best part was that ESPN kept airing the Roger Clemens commercial with him saying "there's no way in hell we'll lose this, let's show 'em how Americans play baseball". Heh.
After the WBC game, Oren and I watched the first episode of the GTO dorama. I was dead right, the head teacher guy I'd seen before in Minbo, one of Itami Juzo's movies (the best one, in my opinion). And Matsushima Nanako looks so young.
Anyway, whee. GO JAPAN!
