...and raining in Yokohama

[dr4b]

I went down to Yokohama this afternoon/evening for the Baystars/Tigers game, where I met up with Michael Westbay, the guy who runs japanesebaseball.com. That was pretty interesting. He's even geekier than me, but unlike me, he has the baseball cred to back it up :)

Sadly, there were a lot of really close calls and a few stupid things and a LOT of rain, and then Ohya-kantoku had this brilliant idea to intentionally walk Shinjiro Hiyama, and it all went downhill from there and the Tigers won 9-7. What kind of moron intentionally walks Hiyama?

I meant to check out the Kannai north McDonald's before the game, but couldn't find it and instead got a late lunch from KFC. In retrospect, that was probably the best choice before seeing a Hanshin game. I got home too late to really get food anywhere, and it was raining, and I thought I'd cook some noodles but instead I just ate crackers for dinner. Bleh.

I think I am definitely coming down with a cold though, or at least my throat feels a little yucky, although that might just be the aftereffect of spending half of the weekend outside in the rain yelling at baseball players.

Also, I need to do laundry still. Oops.

Comments

[dr4b]

Yeah, I'll still be here. I heard you might visit at New Year's?

I totally want to go to the A's/Sox game if I can get tickets!!

[ava-sophia08.livejournal.com]

New Year's is gonna be tough financially and if i get the new job it will be harder. so i'm looking at the A's/Sox game instead. Huston said to a few of us asking about it that it could be really early March, so if that is the case, i'll do that and then go to AZ right after. by then, new job or not i can take that time off.

[dr4b]

ahhh, I see, that makes sense.

it's going to probably be pretty insane trying to get tickets because of Matsuzaka. I'll be keeping my eyes open for details, but if you hear anything through your guys, let me know! I'll buy them all a ton of Japanese beer!

haha, I just realized I didn't bring any of my A's stuff with me to Japan! only MLB stuff I have with me is a Mariners jersey and a t-shirt, because wearing Ichiro stuff always gets a lot of people talking to me.

[ava-sophia08.livejournal.com]

yeah it might be better for me then since right now i've been hit with lots of car stuff and job stuff that needs to be resolved. expensive stuff :(

awww well i have 2 buck shirts, huston & haren giveaway jerseys and 1 buck jersey. between that, we can be well dressed!!