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It is miiiiiiine!
Went to the Giants-Swallows game last night with Simon, and by proxy, with Christopher and the rest of the cheering gang at the top of section D. As promised 3 months ago, Christopher hooked me up with the Best Shirt Ever:
(It says, in Japanese, "I *HATE* THE GIANTS!")
Yeah, so Simon got me a discount ticket with his FC membership, I met him at the gate like 5 minutes before the game started, and I asked where we were sitting, and he said "oh! Chris is here, so we're sitting with him and the D gang." Yay. I got my t-shirt and changed into it just in time for the first pitch, which was a tiny bit late due to the Guinness Book of World Records being there to present the team with their award for the most hits in an inning.
And well, the Swallows KILLED the Giants 13-7. It was great. The best part is that Aoki was benched for this game because he hasn't been hitting much recently, so naturally the Swallows go ahead and get like 20 hits without him there. Every member of the starting lineup, even the pitcher, got a hit, and almost everyone got RBIs as well. It was nuts. If Takada-kantoku hadn't made a few bonehead moves, the score would have been even higher.
I had a pretty good time cheering with everyone -- I know bits and pieces of most of the songs so I was able to keep up fairly well or fake it when not. Only thing is that my Yakult umbrella is in a box in Seattle... I might need to replace it if I go to enough Swallows games. Most of the people were like "come back and cheer with us again! you bring us good luck!" (The Swallows have won exactly THREE games against the Giants this year now. And I was at two of them.)
I'm working on picking a new favorite Yakult player since Miyade went to Rakuten. Thinking of Yasushi Iihara, maybe. Keizo Kawashima is also possible but it would be a bit weird since he's a former Fighters player and all.
Walked back to Shibuya with Simon after the game and chatted hockey and HS baseball. Hopefully we'll get to catch some of the high school prefectural tourneys next week.
(It says, in Japanese, "I *HATE* THE GIANTS!")
Yeah, so Simon got me a discount ticket with his FC membership, I met him at the gate like 5 minutes before the game started, and I asked where we were sitting, and he said "oh! Chris is here, so we're sitting with him and the D gang." Yay. I got my t-shirt and changed into it just in time for the first pitch, which was a tiny bit late due to the Guinness Book of World Records being there to present the team with their award for the most hits in an inning.
And well, the Swallows KILLED the Giants 13-7. It was great. The best part is that Aoki was benched for this game because he hasn't been hitting much recently, so naturally the Swallows go ahead and get like 20 hits without him there. Every member of the starting lineup, even the pitcher, got a hit, and almost everyone got RBIs as well. It was nuts. If Takada-kantoku hadn't made a few bonehead moves, the score would have been even higher.
I had a pretty good time cheering with everyone -- I know bits and pieces of most of the songs so I was able to keep up fairly well or fake it when not. Only thing is that my Yakult umbrella is in a box in Seattle... I might need to replace it if I go to enough Swallows games. Most of the people were like "come back and cheer with us again! you bring us good luck!" (The Swallows have won exactly THREE games against the Giants this year now. And I was at two of them.)
I'm working on picking a new favorite Yakult player since Miyade went to Rakuten. Thinking of Yasushi Iihara, maybe. Keizo Kawashima is also possible but it would be a bit weird since he's a former Fighters player and all.
Walked back to Shibuya with Simon after the game and chatted hockey and HS baseball. Hopefully we'll get to catch some of the high school prefectural tourneys next week.
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I'm sure you know this but 俺 is "I" only in a very low class (properly raised Japanese (not me!) would never use it), male way. Or, and this you might not know, it is used by females in some rural backwaters, such as Ibaraki, but even those women don't use it much now.
Doesn't mean you can't wear it, of course, but I suspect most Japanese women who wear it are the rebellious sort.
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Have you seen my backwaters Osaka-ben "Yaji" shirt? I am sure it is somewhat similar but I wear it anyway because it amuses me. Though I suppose it would offend many less people who are fans of the Giants...
I dunno though, I was planning to wear this t-shirt again to the Dragons-Giants game I'm going to in a few weeks. I was more worried about getting kicked out of the Tokyo Dome than I was about people thinking it is odd for me to call myself "ore", which I never do in speaking, BUT people do often tell me I speak like an 18-year-old boy, so.
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Didn't I say something to that effect in one of these threads? ;)
I remember that Osaka-ben t-shirt, but didn't think it would be too unusual for you or any other female baseball fan to wear it. I don't remember exactly what was on it, but it might be because I'm a barbarian from Kanto and not steeped in Osaka-ben.
BUT people do often tell me I speak like an 18-year-old boy, so.
You know, since we always speak in English, I don't really know how you speak other than hearing you say a few random things in Japanese to random Japanese at random times.