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July 7th is Tanabata day
School was school. As usual I don't talk about it in public entries and I haven't even been writing friendslocked entries recently, though maybe I should be.
I left promptly at 5pm and ran to the train station and got on a train and managed to arrive at Seibu Kyujo-mae at 6:09pm, bought a ticket and a sandwich and ran into the stadium in time to get there halfway through the bottom of the 1st inning. Couldn't find any of my friends quickly so I sat in the back with Akki and his friends for the first few innings, THEN I spotted people I knew up front so I ran up and sat with them for a while, then saw other friends on the way back up. The nice thing about Seibu on a weekday is that it is totally uncrowded since it's so far from Tokyo.
Itokazu forgot his jersey so he was pitching wearing Brian Sweeney's jersey, which was pretty funny. (Akki was even yelling "Ganbare ganbare Sweeney!" instead of Itokazu.) Unfortunately, the Lions won the game 6-4 as Takayuki Kishi pitched a complete game. Sigh. But, Yoshihiro Satoh hit a home run in his first ichi-gun at-bat of the year, and I got to see that at least, yay! I just saw him play all weekend in Kamagaya so it was kind of weird.
Halfway through the game they announced that Wednesday's starter is Darvish, so I guess I am going back for another day of this craziness after all!
The game was over at 9pm, which would normally make me grumpy, but it was a good thing this time because I got home around 10:30pm after a short errands run to Ito Yokado, and could go to sleep around 11:30pm. It's a really exhausting day to get up at 6:30 and go to work from 8-5, then go to the stadium so far away, cheer my heart out for 3 hours, ride home for an hour, etc... but I really don't regret it.
Also I checked with some of my friends and while they all have plans to go to Hokkaido to watch the Fighters this year, they are all at DIFFERENT TIMES. Some are going during Obon or right after (which is RIGHT OUT), one guy is going in September, things like that. I might be going to Sendai at the same time as some of my friends though, so that is good. But, the upshot is, I should plan my Hokkaido trip on my own and when I think is best... and maybe talk to others about closer trips like Sendai/etc.
I left promptly at 5pm and ran to the train station and got on a train and managed to arrive at Seibu Kyujo-mae at 6:09pm, bought a ticket and a sandwich and ran into the stadium in time to get there halfway through the bottom of the 1st inning. Couldn't find any of my friends quickly so I sat in the back with Akki and his friends for the first few innings, THEN I spotted people I knew up front so I ran up and sat with them for a while, then saw other friends on the way back up. The nice thing about Seibu on a weekday is that it is totally uncrowded since it's so far from Tokyo.
Itokazu forgot his jersey so he was pitching wearing Brian Sweeney's jersey, which was pretty funny. (Akki was even yelling "Ganbare ganbare Sweeney!" instead of Itokazu.) Unfortunately, the Lions won the game 6-4 as Takayuki Kishi pitched a complete game. Sigh. But, Yoshihiro Satoh hit a home run in his first ichi-gun at-bat of the year, and I got to see that at least, yay! I just saw him play all weekend in Kamagaya so it was kind of weird.
Halfway through the game they announced that Wednesday's starter is Darvish, so I guess I am going back for another day of this craziness after all!
The game was over at 9pm, which would normally make me grumpy, but it was a good thing this time because I got home around 10:30pm after a short errands run to Ito Yokado, and could go to sleep around 11:30pm. It's a really exhausting day to get up at 6:30 and go to work from 8-5, then go to the stadium so far away, cheer my heart out for 3 hours, ride home for an hour, etc... but I really don't regret it.
Also I checked with some of my friends and while they all have plans to go to Hokkaido to watch the Fighters this year, they are all at DIFFERENT TIMES. Some are going during Obon or right after (which is RIGHT OUT), one guy is going in September, things like that. I might be going to Sendai at the same time as some of my friends though, so that is good. But, the upshot is, I should plan my Hokkaido trip on my own and when I think is best... and maybe talk to others about closer trips like Sendai/etc.