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More fun at minor league baseball games
Hiromi and I went to Lotte Urawa this afternoon to watch the Marines-Fighters game. She got there super-early and saved seats in the front, and I suck and showed up at like 12:40. I don't know why she puts up with me. Anyway, the Fighters won 3-0, Tomoya Yagi pitched 7 shutout innings, and it was good fun. UNFORTUNATELY, I forgot to put my charged battery in my D200. That sucked. Lots of stuff to take photos of and no battery... I borrowed Hiromi's for a few minutes at one point but felt bad.
Afterwards we stalked players! (Kind of like before, but this was an away game...) I could have tried to get things signed but I didn't BRING anything to get signed, oops! So instead we hounded players for photos. I could have done more but I was too scared.
With Takumi Kohbe. He's my Marines ni-gun boyfriend, or he was last year at least (this year it's gonna be Hiroki Ueno if I can ever catch him). Anyway, Kohbe played first base today and kept running into the fence in front of us so we think he knows we're Fighters fans and that's why he's not smiling. Oops. Funny part is I have a Kohbe #55 cellphone strap dangling on my little camera!
With Jason Botts. I asked him in English if we could take a photo. He was really nice about it, though he seemed overwhelmed by all the fans swarming him. I told him good luck getting back up to the top team.
With Tomoya Yagi! This guy was Rookie of the Year in 2006 and won the 2nd game of the Japan Series and the deciding game of the playoffs for us... and has been in the minors for the last year or two :( He pitched really well today though, it'd be nice if he could move back up.
Whee.
Sho Nakata got swarmed and we didn't even TRY to go near him, heh. I thought about stopping Masaya Ozaki but he was wearing a ridiculous bright pink shirt. Also some of the other players might have been catchable but I hesitated too much. Hiromi tells me I'm way too shy. Next time I'm with her or Mariko or whoever I'll be more assertive, heh. Though I *DID* say "Imanari-san! Otsukaresama deshita!" to Ryota Imanari, who said thanks and gave me a REALLY funny look, Hiromi cracked up. I should just continue bugging him until he recognizes me as his biggest gaijin fan ever (or more likely ONLY gaijin fan ever)... but I don't want to be a pain in the neck, heh.
I kept an eye out for Lenn Sakata but didn't see him, which is probably just as well, I'm not sure what I'd say.
I learned the word "miokuri" which means, basically, "to see off", but which in this case is more like, "to follow all the players back to the team bus, hound them for autographs and photos, and then wave goodbye to them". :)
Afterwards we walked to the train station with a random guy from the stands who is friends-of-friends with her, and talked about the Fighters all the way back on the train. I didn't catch his name though, oh well.
My friend Kohei asked if I'd want to go look at sakura tonight, but first off I was ZONKED after the game and second off the forecast for the entire evening is rain, so I begged out and suggested maybe we can go some other evening this week. It might even be raining right now, I'm not sure. I napped for two hours and now I'm going to head to Yokado... and then I'm going to come back here and try to write about Lotte opening day and the Bobby craziness.
Afterwards we stalked players! (Kind of like before, but this was an away game...) I could have tried to get things signed but I didn't BRING anything to get signed, oops! So instead we hounded players for photos. I could have done more but I was too scared.
With Takumi Kohbe. He's my Marines ni-gun boyfriend, or he was last year at least (this year it's gonna be Hiroki Ueno if I can ever catch him). Anyway, Kohbe played first base today and kept running into the fence in front of us so we think he knows we're Fighters fans and that's why he's not smiling. Oops. Funny part is I have a Kohbe #55 cellphone strap dangling on my little camera!
With Jason Botts. I asked him in English if we could take a photo. He was really nice about it, though he seemed overwhelmed by all the fans swarming him. I told him good luck getting back up to the top team.
With Tomoya Yagi! This guy was Rookie of the Year in 2006 and won the 2nd game of the Japan Series and the deciding game of the playoffs for us... and has been in the minors for the last year or two :( He pitched really well today though, it'd be nice if he could move back up.
Whee.
Sho Nakata got swarmed and we didn't even TRY to go near him, heh. I thought about stopping Masaya Ozaki but he was wearing a ridiculous bright pink shirt. Also some of the other players might have been catchable but I hesitated too much. Hiromi tells me I'm way too shy. Next time I'm with her or Mariko or whoever I'll be more assertive, heh. Though I *DID* say "Imanari-san! Otsukaresama deshita!" to Ryota Imanari, who said thanks and gave me a REALLY funny look, Hiromi cracked up. I should just continue bugging him until he recognizes me as his biggest gaijin fan ever (or more likely ONLY gaijin fan ever)... but I don't want to be a pain in the neck, heh.
I kept an eye out for Lenn Sakata but didn't see him, which is probably just as well, I'm not sure what I'd say.
I learned the word "miokuri" which means, basically, "to see off", but which in this case is more like, "to follow all the players back to the team bus, hound them for autographs and photos, and then wave goodbye to them". :)
Afterwards we walked to the train station with a random guy from the stands who is friends-of-friends with her, and talked about the Fighters all the way back on the train. I didn't catch his name though, oh well.
My friend Kohei asked if I'd want to go look at sakura tonight, but first off I was ZONKED after the game and second off the forecast for the entire evening is rain, so I begged out and suggested maybe we can go some other evening this week. It might even be raining right now, I'm not sure. I napped for two hours and now I'm going to head to Yokado... and then I'm going to come back here and try to write about Lotte opening day and the Bobby craziness.
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