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If I wasn't an idiot, I would have been up in Nikko watching hockey this weekend.
Why does it seem like I always tend to look at the schedules for these things RIGHT AFTER the necessary planning/going needs to occur?
I hate Seibu for being idiots and folding their team.
It doesn't seem particularly feasible to go to Hachinohe in two weeks just to watch hockey -- well, it does, actually, just kind of expensive. Don't think the Saturday-Sunday ticket would quite cut it though as the last shinkansen back is at 8pm and the game on Sunday is at 5pm, but it WOULD give me another prefecture visited, and I really have no other excuse whatsoever to go to Aomori.
(I'm thinking it might be neat to see how many of the 47 prefectures I can go to -- not just ride a train through. My thought is, for example, I have been to Yamaguchi prefecture -- even if all I really did there was get out and eat dinner in Iwakuni city. But I haven't really been to Saga prefecture, since all I did was ride a train through it. I never exited a train station in Tokushima or Kagawa, so I still haven't been there either.)
What I don't get is, it seems like hockey games here sell out pretty well, so why are the teams in such dire financial straits? I guess part of it is just that all the arenas are so small (which is also probably why they sell out), but still, this seems like more of the typical Japanese idiocy about sports management here.
EDIT: So instead, I am watching college football on TV, Hosei University vs. Kansai University in the Koshien Bowl this afternoon. How fucking weird! They turned the outfield at Koshien into a football field, the outfield stands are packed but the infield stands are the "far away cheap seats". Hosei is up 3-0 on a ridiculously long drive (it took 10 minutes) and a field goal, but Kansai seems like the better team so we'll see. Also, the Hosei marching band does play some of the same songs for this as they do for baseball. Heh. Very weird, why do I always end up watching Hosei sports?
Why does it seem like I always tend to look at the schedules for these things RIGHT AFTER the necessary planning/going needs to occur?
I hate Seibu for being idiots and folding their team.
It doesn't seem particularly feasible to go to Hachinohe in two weeks just to watch hockey -- well, it does, actually, just kind of expensive. Don't think the Saturday-Sunday ticket would quite cut it though as the last shinkansen back is at 8pm and the game on Sunday is at 5pm, but it WOULD give me another prefecture visited, and I really have no other excuse whatsoever to go to Aomori.
(I'm thinking it might be neat to see how many of the 47 prefectures I can go to -- not just ride a train through. My thought is, for example, I have been to Yamaguchi prefecture -- even if all I really did there was get out and eat dinner in Iwakuni city. But I haven't really been to Saga prefecture, since all I did was ride a train through it. I never exited a train station in Tokushima or Kagawa, so I still haven't been there either.)
What I don't get is, it seems like hockey games here sell out pretty well, so why are the teams in such dire financial straits? I guess part of it is just that all the arenas are so small (which is also probably why they sell out), but still, this seems like more of the typical Japanese idiocy about sports management here.
EDIT: So instead, I am watching college football on TV, Hosei University vs. Kansai University in the Koshien Bowl this afternoon. How fucking weird! They turned the outfield at Koshien into a football field, the outfield stands are packed but the infield stands are the "far away cheap seats". Hosei is up 3-0 on a ridiculously long drive (it took 10 minutes) and a field goal, but Kansai seems like the better team so we'll see. Also, the Hosei marching band does play some of the same songs for this as they do for baseball. Heh. Very weird, why do I always end up watching Hosei sports?
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I have a friend, well, one of my baseball acquaintances who I know from watching college ball and minor-league ball... he's like 70 years old now but he LOVES what they call "American Football" here, he played for Meiji University's team when he was in college! I think he was a running back... he's always telling me I need to come watch college football here, but I was a big slacker and never went. Oops.
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