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More industrial League baseball fun and whatnot
I probably shoulda just gone to sleep at 9pm but I stayed up in the hopes of a good Ainori episode. But Ainori sucked, so oh well. I got to see SMAPxSMAP and they sang with Coldplay... would you believe that I actually have never heard Coldplay before? Or if I have, I'm totally unaware of it? Because I totally didn't recognize the band or their songs or the sound at all.
This afternoon I went to see ENEOS vs. Honda in the industrial league semi-finals. I joked that I cursed Honda because of Hisayoshi Chono, who turned down the Fighters when they drafted him two years ago, and sure enough Chono made some disgusting errors and the team lost 5-4. So there. ENEOS goes on to the finals and now I'm going to have to put up with more Red Sox fans drooling over Junichi Tazawa. It was bad enough when everyone couldn't stop drooling over pro players in Japan, but now they have to drool over the corporate players? Hate.
I went to the game with Simon again and he dragged me to the batting cages next to the Tokyo Dome afterwards, but since they only had one lefty cage and it didn't go slower than 90 km/h I begged out of it, being as I don't know how to hit anything except slow-pitch softballs. I did throw one ball into the speed pitch and got clocked at a super-speedy uh 43 km/h. Yeah, I throw like a girl. Simon hit like 97 km/h, but when you realize that's still only 60 mph...
Anyway, he had made some plan for the evening to go drinking with someone else, so he ran off, and I went around the Tokyo Dome a bit -- got sushi at the kaiten place I like by Suidobashi, and went through the Dome, played some UFO catchers, and... went home. But I stopped in Oji on the way, at the big arcade there, which I'd never entered. It had batting cages, they went down to 80 km/h for the lefty ones, so I decided to go ahead and try. I can't hit baseballs. In 20 pitches I made contact on 3 of them. Given the pitches were REALLY low for whatever reason, but still. I miss slow-pitch softball cages :(
Came home, went grocery shopping... then kind of ended up spending the evening being braindead staying up for Ainori, which was just plain stupid of me.
Also, dry ice is fun to play with (when you buy ice cream, sometimes they offer to let you get dry ice to bring it home in). Haagen-Dahs's new "maple cookie" flavor is actually bit too STRONG for me, though, to be perfectly honest.
By the way, one year ago right now -- today -- I was sitting in an ambulance heading to the hospital after getting hit by a truck riding my bike home from a movie, before going to Nagoya. I can't tell if I can't believe a year has passed because it seems so short, or so long...
This afternoon I went to see ENEOS vs. Honda in the industrial league semi-finals. I joked that I cursed Honda because of Hisayoshi Chono, who turned down the Fighters when they drafted him two years ago, and sure enough Chono made some disgusting errors and the team lost 5-4. So there. ENEOS goes on to the finals and now I'm going to have to put up with more Red Sox fans drooling over Junichi Tazawa. It was bad enough when everyone couldn't stop drooling over pro players in Japan, but now they have to drool over the corporate players? Hate.
I went to the game with Simon again and he dragged me to the batting cages next to the Tokyo Dome afterwards, but since they only had one lefty cage and it didn't go slower than 90 km/h I begged out of it, being as I don't know how to hit anything except slow-pitch softballs. I did throw one ball into the speed pitch and got clocked at a super-speedy uh 43 km/h. Yeah, I throw like a girl. Simon hit like 97 km/h, but when you realize that's still only 60 mph...
Anyway, he had made some plan for the evening to go drinking with someone else, so he ran off, and I went around the Tokyo Dome a bit -- got sushi at the kaiten place I like by Suidobashi, and went through the Dome, played some UFO catchers, and... went home. But I stopped in Oji on the way, at the big arcade there, which I'd never entered. It had batting cages, they went down to 80 km/h for the lefty ones, so I decided to go ahead and try. I can't hit baseballs. In 20 pitches I made contact on 3 of them. Given the pitches were REALLY low for whatever reason, but still. I miss slow-pitch softball cages :(
Came home, went grocery shopping... then kind of ended up spending the evening being braindead staying up for Ainori, which was just plain stupid of me.
Also, dry ice is fun to play with (when you buy ice cream, sometimes they offer to let you get dry ice to bring it home in). Haagen-Dahs's new "maple cookie" flavor is actually bit too STRONG for me, though, to be perfectly honest.
By the way, one year ago right now -- today -- I was sitting in an ambulance heading to the hospital after getting hit by a truck riding my bike home from a movie, before going to Nagoya. I can't tell if I can't believe a year has passed because it seems so short, or so long...
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Also: are you a truck?
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