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Sitting around watching BS-i; tonight the Chunichi Dragons, the defending Japan Series and Konami Cup Champions are up against the evil Yomuri Giants and their bloated payroll.  No way this telecast is skewed in favor of one team over the other; 'Beat the Dragons' is the undertone of the telecast.  All the propaganda in the world wont change the fact that the Dragons are leading 3-1 now or the fact that the Giant's starting pitching is...outside of Utsumi-san is so-so; I'm sure Yokohama fans are upset that Marc Kroon and his 161 kph fast ball now reside in the Yomuri bullpen, but I think the Baystars organization saw the same thing I did: although Kroon did get his saves, he had a bad habit of allowing teams to make a run and would run up his pitch count big time because other than his curve ball and heater, he has no other pitches.  (Well...that may explain why he is playing in Japan...but I wont go there)

In other news, Murata Shuichi had a 2 run jack against the Swallows tonight.

I don't think that the Dragons are going to miss Fukodome too much this season seeing that they won a large majority of their games last season and ran through the Tigers and beat top seeded Yomuri in the Climax Series last year without him; and then defeated the defending Japan Series champs, the Nippon Ham Fighters.  It does help to have good ol' Tyrone Woods and his 30 or so jacks a year backing up their offense as well.  The Giants probably pursued Alex Ramirez in the offseason for that same reason.

I really should be studying for the LSAT, but I'm a lazy sonufabitch. 

Well, I guess Utsumi isnt doing all too well...he's been rocked for two runs in the 6th inning and just got yanked for Nishimura.  I haven't seen many games outside of the medicore Baystars this season, so I dont know all too much about the pitching staff of the Yomuri Giants.  I just enjoy watching them lose.  More than watching the Red Sox and Yankees lose; though I enjoy watching the Red Sox lose because I'm so tired of this "Red Sox Nation" crap; it really pissed me off when Joe Buck tried created a "White Sox Nation" and the curse of the Sox during the 2005 playoffs.  In all the years I've watched the Sox on WGN or WFLD or hearing thier games on AM 1000 in Chicago, I don't recall hearing about a "White Sox Nation" or some curse. And Nishimura gave up a run on a little blooper that was just over the second baseman's arm.  Man, if he was a gaihin...hah hah hah hah hah hah hah hah.

And the Baystars are laying the full sized beat down on the Swallows now, 11-0.  Well, good thing that our offense finally decided to come to life while the pitching staff has not been whiped out yet.

I really want to watch this "Rookies" show...ah...overdramatization of high school baseball...I wonder how many groupies the guys have in this series.  Its funny, if anyone reads Gotta Have Wa, there's a very interesting chapter about the Koshien (Japanese high school national championships) where someone makes a snide remark about the "pure" ballplayers not being all too pure with ass being thrown at them at all directions.  Yeesh...its worse than UW Madison football groupies!  Hah hah hah.

And the beating is continuing at Jingu stadium, 12-0.  Do they have an "uncle" rule?

Gotta love the BS-i mouse with the blonde afro in the little inter-commerical breaks between the telecast and the drama commericals.  Including the fan friendly "To love る"....this of course led Dyran and I to ask Princess Sachiyo if that really leads to Japanese men being disapointed in the end...but, that's assuming that they haven't already wanted the bronde f**k beforehand. 

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I bet the Giants wish they had one of those right now...

The pain just ended for the Swallows, a 9 run fifth inning.  It was almost as enjoyable as the huge inning the White Sox had at the expense of the Detroit Tigers earlier this week.

Bobby Valentine is very animated when congratulating his players after a win, more than your typical NPB managers, and its not that he's an American, I don't see Brown (manager of the Hiroshima Carp) do the same after a Carp win; but that's dependent on the Carp winning games, which does not happen a whole lot for that franchise in the past few years.  What's odd is that Minnesota Twins fans can probably sympathize with Hiroshima Carp fans since both teams get fleeced by the better known franchises (the Twins by the Yankees and Red Sox and the Carp by the Hanshin Tigers (Osaka) and the Yomiuri Giants (Tokyo)) for their young talented ball players.  Its not as if anyone can really compete against the Giants since they are the most popular team in Japan--and unless you're very loyal to your local team or if you're from the Kansai plain and area big Osaka fan, there's not much of a chance competing against the Giants for your talented ball players.  Its a same, its actually worse than it is with the Yankees and Red Sox in the US.

Well, the pain is continuing for the Swallows, Murata had another homer, a 2 run jack to left field.  15-4.

Gotta love how 1) my blog is completely incoherent, 2) how cool われわれsounds in dialouge and 3) how overemotional characters are in Japanese anime and lastly 4) how much cooler ドラゴンボールZ is in 日本語。

Eh, looks like the Baystars are going to wrap up a beatdown on the Swallows and I finished my Sapporo tall boy so there's no real reason to stay up since I know I'm not going to study for my LSAT.  Hah hah hah.

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