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trading baseball cards in shibuya
Jul. 1st, 2008 11:38 amOops I fell asleep without updating last night.
I spent the afternoon on a particular errand, then ended up in Akabane GEOS for an hour or two, where I wrote my baseblog about Sunday's game.
Went down to Shibuya, met up with Pau around 8pm near Hachiko. I was trying to dress trendy-like, but it's just as well that he beat me there, heh. We went to Momo Paradise for dinner -- it's this tabehoudai (all-you-can-eat) shabu shabu place that Krispy showed me a looooong time ago. I actually had no clue where it was per se, but I had a general idea of the vicinity -- "go towards Outback, find that place that looks like a TV studio, walk to the next building, go up". Except what really happened is we went towards Outback and suddenly I said "Hey, I think this is the building", and amazingly, it was.
Tabehoudai shabu shabu is fantastic when you haven't really eaten anything all day, and BOY did we eat a ton -- something like 6 plates of meat -- but it is not conducive to our actual purpose for meeting up, which was trading baseball cards. So we found a McDonald's with several floors, bought cheap drinks, and took over a table on the second floor. Lots of people walked by us like "why the hell are there two gaijin opening up 2003 BBM baseball card packs and sorting and trading them and saying things like 'dude! I got Hiyama!'?"
Yeah, so I literally opened somewhere around 40 packs of 4 cards each, two whole boxes of 2003 BBM 2nd Light packs. I got two Matsuzaka cards on my own, and then ended up getting two Fukudome cards from Pau. I felt really bad that I didn't get a Matsuzaka double to give him, though I did trade him an Akahoshi for a Hillman... eh. I'll have to see if I can make up more of the set either from Koshigaya or see if Ikebukuro gets more boxes. Who knows.
At one point I asked him to check to see if Hichori Morimoto actually had a card in this set. And I swear, while he was looking, the NEXT pack of cards I opened had a Hichori card. I'm psychic! I tried to summon a Morino card after that, but no luck.
Oh yeah, and I *finally* opened the Tigers card from Koshien that Oren gave me a few weeks ago from when he went there. If it was a player Pau really liked I was going to give it to him. But guess who it was? LEW FORD! Hahahahaha so now I have an Official Tigers Card from Koshien of Lew Ford. That's pretty cool I think :)
Ended up on the nearly-last-train home, then totally zoned out for like an hour or two. Oops.
We really need more friends in Japan to trade cards with, argh.
I spent the afternoon on a particular errand, then ended up in Akabane GEOS for an hour or two, where I wrote my baseblog about Sunday's game.
Went down to Shibuya, met up with Pau around 8pm near Hachiko. I was trying to dress trendy-like, but it's just as well that he beat me there, heh. We went to Momo Paradise for dinner -- it's this tabehoudai (all-you-can-eat) shabu shabu place that Krispy showed me a looooong time ago. I actually had no clue where it was per se, but I had a general idea of the vicinity -- "go towards Outback, find that place that looks like a TV studio, walk to the next building, go up". Except what really happened is we went towards Outback and suddenly I said "Hey, I think this is the building", and amazingly, it was.
Tabehoudai shabu shabu is fantastic when you haven't really eaten anything all day, and BOY did we eat a ton -- something like 6 plates of meat -- but it is not conducive to our actual purpose for meeting up, which was trading baseball cards. So we found a McDonald's with several floors, bought cheap drinks, and took over a table on the second floor. Lots of people walked by us like "why the hell are there two gaijin opening up 2003 BBM baseball card packs and sorting and trading them and saying things like 'dude! I got Hiyama!'?"
Yeah, so I literally opened somewhere around 40 packs of 4 cards each, two whole boxes of 2003 BBM 2nd Light packs. I got two Matsuzaka cards on my own, and then ended up getting two Fukudome cards from Pau. I felt really bad that I didn't get a Matsuzaka double to give him, though I did trade him an Akahoshi for a Hillman... eh. I'll have to see if I can make up more of the set either from Koshigaya or see if Ikebukuro gets more boxes. Who knows.
At one point I asked him to check to see if Hichori Morimoto actually had a card in this set. And I swear, while he was looking, the NEXT pack of cards I opened had a Hichori card. I'm psychic! I tried to summon a Morino card after that, but no luck.
Oh yeah, and I *finally* opened the Tigers card from Koshien that Oren gave me a few weeks ago from when he went there. If it was a player Pau really liked I was going to give it to him. But guess who it was? LEW FORD! Hahahahaha so now I have an Official Tigers Card from Koshien of Lew Ford. That's pretty cool I think :)
Ended up on the nearly-last-train home, then totally zoned out for like an hour or two. Oops.
We really need more friends in Japan to trade cards with, argh.
