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A weekend
I guess the most important thing is, the Giants won Saturday night's game and the Fighters won tonight's, so it's turning into an interesting series. Also, all 3 games at the Tokyo Dome will happen for sure.
I ended up watching both games alone at home. It's just as well, really, it's a lot easier to see my TV from 2 meters away than to see a small TV from across a restaurant anyway.
Saturday I had school during the day, we had 4 classes in the morning and then a bunch of free time in the afternoon, I worked on some stuff and coached for the English speech contest next week. There was no school lunch again so I walked all the way out to Arakawa Yuen for the first time and got takeout from Mos Burger. On the way back I ran into all my students walking home who live out there. Several of them yelled "HELLO!!!!" as they walked by.
On my way home on Saturday, I got a katsu bento from Wako, with Hokkaido croquette and so on. It's just a tradition before Fighters games these days for me.
I wasn't sure what I would do on Sunday exactly. But last night after seeing that Keio slaughtered Waseda in Saturday's game, and looking at the list of who pitched, I had two big hunches about Sunday's game:
1) Something fucking weird was going to happen
2) It was going to involve Tatsuya Ohishi
(It's a little hard to explain, but Ohishi is my favorite college player, he's a relief pitcher.)
So I decided to go down to the game, even though I don't really like Soukeisen anymore thanks to the crowds.
Well, I was right on both counts, too. On the train down, when I saw the lineups, it said that Ohishi was STARTING for Waseda. Yappari! I got to Jingu about 20 minutes before the game, got an infield ticket, found an empty seat... yeah, it WAS pretty packed, of course. And I sat on Keio's side because in all honesty I wanted Keio to win, even though I didn't want Ohishi to lose.
But, unlike his normal lights-out self, he gave up 6 runs in 4 innings. WTF! Keio was just hitting him left and right. And out of nowhere, Junpei Komuro almost pitched a shutout for Keio, almost going the entire game, too! Though after 4 innings Ohishi moved to centerfield for the rest of the game... which was not quite as weird as shortstop, but still kind of amusing to see the team's closer playing out in center after starting. Whee.
Keio hasn't won Soukeisen since the fall of 2006, since before Handkerchief Boy showed up! (Though since Tomohisa Ohtani just got drafted out of Toyota, both of the aces of Soukeisen 2006 are both pros now too, him and Mikinori Katoh. Not to mention that Waseda's other starter at the time was Ken Miyamoto, now on the Fighters...)
I should have stayed at the game longer, it turns out they had the official ceremony for Meiji winning the championship (since Keio won this series), and some other stuff, but I wanted to go home and watch the Japan Series, so I got a sandwich from Subway and came home.
Tomorrow starts the Rookie Series for Big 6. I'd like to go, I guess. We'll see how I feel when I wake up tomorrow. I don't have school, because of Saturday classes, so...
I ended up watching both games alone at home. It's just as well, really, it's a lot easier to see my TV from 2 meters away than to see a small TV from across a restaurant anyway.
Saturday I had school during the day, we had 4 classes in the morning and then a bunch of free time in the afternoon, I worked on some stuff and coached for the English speech contest next week. There was no school lunch again so I walked all the way out to Arakawa Yuen for the first time and got takeout from Mos Burger. On the way back I ran into all my students walking home who live out there. Several of them yelled "HELLO!!!!" as they walked by.
On my way home on Saturday, I got a katsu bento from Wako, with Hokkaido croquette and so on. It's just a tradition before Fighters games these days for me.
I wasn't sure what I would do on Sunday exactly. But last night after seeing that Keio slaughtered Waseda in Saturday's game, and looking at the list of who pitched, I had two big hunches about Sunday's game:
1) Something fucking weird was going to happen
2) It was going to involve Tatsuya Ohishi
(It's a little hard to explain, but Ohishi is my favorite college player, he's a relief pitcher.)
So I decided to go down to the game, even though I don't really like Soukeisen anymore thanks to the crowds.
Well, I was right on both counts, too. On the train down, when I saw the lineups, it said that Ohishi was STARTING for Waseda. Yappari! I got to Jingu about 20 minutes before the game, got an infield ticket, found an empty seat... yeah, it WAS pretty packed, of course. And I sat on Keio's side because in all honesty I wanted Keio to win, even though I didn't want Ohishi to lose.
But, unlike his normal lights-out self, he gave up 6 runs in 4 innings. WTF! Keio was just hitting him left and right. And out of nowhere, Junpei Komuro almost pitched a shutout for Keio, almost going the entire game, too! Though after 4 innings Ohishi moved to centerfield for the rest of the game... which was not quite as weird as shortstop, but still kind of amusing to see the team's closer playing out in center after starting. Whee.
Keio hasn't won Soukeisen since the fall of 2006, since before Handkerchief Boy showed up! (Though since Tomohisa Ohtani just got drafted out of Toyota, both of the aces of Soukeisen 2006 are both pros now too, him and Mikinori Katoh. Not to mention that Waseda's other starter at the time was Ken Miyamoto, now on the Fighters...)
I should have stayed at the game longer, it turns out they had the official ceremony for Meiji winning the championship (since Keio won this series), and some other stuff, but I wanted to go home and watch the Japan Series, so I got a sandwich from Subway and came home.
Tomorrow starts the Rookie Series for Big 6. I'd like to go, I guess. We'll see how I feel when I wake up tomorrow. I don't have school, because of Saturday classes, so...
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That's kinda crazy they had it broadcasting at all... I didn't think average Japanese people in the middle of Texas would care about the game!