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The 2009 Season is Over.
Which is a really really weird thing to think, but it's true.
Okay, so Friday I have nothing to say entry-wise really. After work I got sushi from Heiroku (they have a new menu, but it doesn't appear to be late enough in the year yet for kanburi, sadly) and stopped in the bookstore and was too weakwilled not to buy the Tatsunami photobook, and then I stopped at the dry cleaner's on the way home and picked up my suit. Hooray!
But when I got home I had nothing in particular to do and could barely hold my head up, so I went to sleep at 7pm.
Woke up Saturday at 10am, 15 hours later. Well, I woke up a bit before that because my back hurt (it seems that I can't actually sleep for more than 10-12 hours before my back starts to hurt).
I basically spent the early afternoon doing laundry and finishing up a post about Game 5. I also cleared out a drawer-full of clothes so I can shift to having more long-sleeve shirts instead of short-sleeve.
Then I went to Kamagaya, where the Fighters minor-league stadium is. They were having a "public viewing" of Game 6... basically the game is in Hokkaido, so this was something that the Tokyo-area fans could come to. (Except that Kamagaya is in the middle of fucking nowhere in Chiba prefecture. From home, it takes me almost 2 hours total to get there, including walking plus the bus ride to the stadium from the train station and so on.)
I met up with Hiromi on the bus, and we met up with Ojisan and Chizaki at the stadium, where the team had set up a few hundred chairs and a whole ton of picnic tables plus some plastic seating area on the ground. Ojisan had saved 3 seats in the front row of chairs and also a picnic table. There was a merchandise table set up and a food booth that had various hot foods, and they also had banners out, and some ouendan-types brought flags, and the Kamagaya mascot Cubby was wandering around too. There was a big projection screen on the side of the stadium, and we were basically all sitting out there in the parking lot.
Anyway, we sang fight songs and cheer songs and watched the game and the Giants won so they won the Japan Series and that totally sucked, but it was good to see some people again and to hang out with everyone. Really, the fact that 600-700 people came to the middle of fucking nowhere and sat out in the cold to watch the game was pretty amazing. I actually had a pretty good time all things considered... I had brought strawberry yatsuhashi from a Kyoto festival in Funabashi station, and Ojisan brought inari, and Chizaki brought a huge thermos of hot water and some coffee mix, and Hiromi brought chips, and I got curry and other people got soup and hot dogs and all, and basically, we kind of had a picnic out there.
Oh yeah, I got interviewed for Chiba TV. I sounded like a moron. Ojisan basically dragged the lady who was doing interviews over like "YOU HAVE TO TALK TO DEANNA" and I'm like "Oh god no". But actually I think my Japanese was mostly semi-reasonable. She mostly was asking like, how long had I been a fan, who was my favorite player and why, stuff like that. So I said how Imanari made me crack up at Fan Fest 2008 and that's why I decided I like him, though he is also a good player etc etc.
Saw Suzuki-san afterwards, chatted with him in English for a minute or so. He was like "I didn't know you were friends with Brian Sweeney."
Chizaki gave me and Hiromi a ride back to the train station and we rode to Matsudo together. She might come with me to the College-Pro game in a few weeks, we'll see.
I don't feel nearly so sad after this game as I did after game 5.
The only thing is that now I feel kind of like I have nothing to do. Like, I don't even know what to do on Sunday, since I kinda left the weekend free to watch the Japan Series. I realize that my 3 priorities should be:
1) study for JLPT
2) find a new job for next year
3) plan my trip back to the US for the winter
but really, what I want to do tomorrow is to goof off and do something gratuitous. Can't think of anything in particular that isn't expensive though.
Actually, something I really ought to be doing is trying to meet up with non-baseball friends for a change. Would be nice to do karaoke not by myself one of these days :)
Okay, so Friday I have nothing to say entry-wise really. After work I got sushi from Heiroku (they have a new menu, but it doesn't appear to be late enough in the year yet for kanburi, sadly) and stopped in the bookstore and was too weakwilled not to buy the Tatsunami photobook, and then I stopped at the dry cleaner's on the way home and picked up my suit. Hooray!
But when I got home I had nothing in particular to do and could barely hold my head up, so I went to sleep at 7pm.
Woke up Saturday at 10am, 15 hours later. Well, I woke up a bit before that because my back hurt (it seems that I can't actually sleep for more than 10-12 hours before my back starts to hurt).
I basically spent the early afternoon doing laundry and finishing up a post about Game 5. I also cleared out a drawer-full of clothes so I can shift to having more long-sleeve shirts instead of short-sleeve.
Then I went to Kamagaya, where the Fighters minor-league stadium is. They were having a "public viewing" of Game 6... basically the game is in Hokkaido, so this was something that the Tokyo-area fans could come to. (Except that Kamagaya is in the middle of fucking nowhere in Chiba prefecture. From home, it takes me almost 2 hours total to get there, including walking plus the bus ride to the stadium from the train station and so on.)
I met up with Hiromi on the bus, and we met up with Ojisan and Chizaki at the stadium, where the team had set up a few hundred chairs and a whole ton of picnic tables plus some plastic seating area on the ground. Ojisan had saved 3 seats in the front row of chairs and also a picnic table. There was a merchandise table set up and a food booth that had various hot foods, and they also had banners out, and some ouendan-types brought flags, and the Kamagaya mascot Cubby was wandering around too. There was a big projection screen on the side of the stadium, and we were basically all sitting out there in the parking lot.
Anyway, we sang fight songs and cheer songs and watched the game and the Giants won so they won the Japan Series and that totally sucked, but it was good to see some people again and to hang out with everyone. Really, the fact that 600-700 people came to the middle of fucking nowhere and sat out in the cold to watch the game was pretty amazing. I actually had a pretty good time all things considered... I had brought strawberry yatsuhashi from a Kyoto festival in Funabashi station, and Ojisan brought inari, and Chizaki brought a huge thermos of hot water and some coffee mix, and Hiromi brought chips, and I got curry and other people got soup and hot dogs and all, and basically, we kind of had a picnic out there.
Oh yeah, I got interviewed for Chiba TV. I sounded like a moron. Ojisan basically dragged the lady who was doing interviews over like "YOU HAVE TO TALK TO DEANNA" and I'm like "Oh god no". But actually I think my Japanese was mostly semi-reasonable. She mostly was asking like, how long had I been a fan, who was my favorite player and why, stuff like that. So I said how Imanari made me crack up at Fan Fest 2008 and that's why I decided I like him, though he is also a good player etc etc.
Saw Suzuki-san afterwards, chatted with him in English for a minute or so. He was like "I didn't know you were friends with Brian Sweeney."
Chizaki gave me and Hiromi a ride back to the train station and we rode to Matsudo together. She might come with me to the College-Pro game in a few weeks, we'll see.
I don't feel nearly so sad after this game as I did after game 5.
The only thing is that now I feel kind of like I have nothing to do. Like, I don't even know what to do on Sunday, since I kinda left the weekend free to watch the Japan Series. I realize that my 3 priorities should be:
1) study for JLPT
2) find a new job for next year
3) plan my trip back to the US for the winter
but really, what I want to do tomorrow is to goof off and do something gratuitous. Can't think of anything in particular that isn't expensive though.
Actually, something I really ought to be doing is trying to meet up with non-baseball friends for a change. Would be nice to do karaoke not by myself one of these days :)
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We're still sort of slowly settling in, but Friday nights or Saturday nights are usually good. Sunday nights are all right too (as before). Doug and I have just been a little busy lately, and this weekend is the same. T_T But we will try to get some karaoke together soon, and all-you-can-eat yakiniku (cheap too--1280 yen for 90 minutes) as well as show off the apartment. ^_^