Trooper York: I think I have to start watching Japanese baseball

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

I think I have to start watching Japanese baseball

I don't know but I hear it is really cool.

My new team is Nippon Fun Bags of the Honshu league.

26 comments:

chickelit said...: I guess sliding into second feels like a home run!; May 22, 2012 at 11:45 PM
AllenS said...: There's a big difference between a couple of softballs and hardballs.; May 23, 2012 at 8:10 AM
The Dude said...: I watched a lot of Japanese baseball when I was in Japan. I think it is safe to say that those bases are loaded.; May 23, 2012 at 8:36 AM
ndspinelli said...: When they had the World Baseball Classic a couple years ago my bride and I went to one of the games @ Petco in San Diego. Americans don't give a shit about this series but all other countries look upon it like the Olympics. We saw Cuba v Japan. Aroldis Chapman who now pitches for the Reds[104mph] started for Cuba and DiceK for Japan. What was so interesting was not only the difference in how the 2 teams play the game, but the fans. The Japs had very organized cheers. The Cubans were drinking rum from flasks and dancing, playing drums, etc. I didn't see any Jap hoochie mamas like this, but some of the Cubans dancing salsa were knockouts.; May 23, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Titus said...: Nice nips on the nip.; May 23, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Chip S. said...: Those look like Chicago-style softballs to me.; May 23, 2012 at 2:40 PM
The Dude said...: Watching baseball in Japan requires that one recalibrate the numbers one sees. A pitcher might throw 140, but that's kph. The outfield fence might read 100, but that's meters. And they have a different word for everything - if you swing and miss, that's a striku. Very confusing, eh?; May 23, 2012 at 3:09 PM
ndspinelli said...: Chicago style softball is an acquired taste that I never got used to, but I tried.

For others not aware of this very provincial game of softball, it's a 16 inch ball. You don't play w/o gloves, you play w/ bare hands. I've never researched it but I surmise it derives from when men played baseball and girls played softball. Our culture became feminized and men started playing softball because they couldn't handle baseball. Real men still played baseball[in southern w/ Home Talent League] into their 40's, 50's, or switched over to fast pitch, a still manly game. Then, in the 1960's came slow pitch, a game you can play while drinking beer, not unlike bowling.

That brings us to Chicago "men". Who just picked up the girly game and never gave it up. Provinciality is a double edged sword.

ChipS, Do you play girly ball...be honest now!; May 23, 2012 at 4:00 PM
ndspinelli said...: Sixty, I've watched televised games from Japan. But, the best view of it was from an Anthony Bourdain trip to Japan where he went to a game. It is quite different.; May 23, 2012 at 4:02 PM
blake said...: Japanese girls are cute.

I wonder if she giggles when she strikes someone out.; May 23, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Evi L. Bloggerlady said...: I am assuming certain surgical enhancements are allowed in this league?; May 23, 2012 at 4:23 PM
chickelit said...: I am assuming certain surgical enhancements are allowed in this league?

I don't think so. I'll bet she even considers reduction, like Simona Halep.; May 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM
Trooper York said...: It's steriods dude.; May 23, 2012 at 4:39 PM
chickelit said...: Not likely, Troop. Imagine the market if it existed. Sort of like penis pills. Just say'n; May 23, 2012 at 4:45 PM
chickelit said...: Titus on the other hand might have something to worry about if he continues his 'roid regimen.; May 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM
Titus said...: I am off the roids now Chick.

Only one cycle.

I was tempted for another in order to "stack" but decided against it.

I am more horny now, thanks for asking.

Japanese guys have really small hogs.

Some fags like asians, rice queens.

My husband could be identified as an asian but I don't think of him the same as the gooks, nips and chinks.; May 23, 2012 at 4:56 PM
Chip S. said...: @spinelli--I've never played 16-inch softball--too far from hardball, as you say. But I think the idea is to be able to squeeze as many simultaneous games as possible into Grant Park.

Also, think of all the broken car windows along LSD if people played hardball there!; May 23, 2012 at 5:33 PM
Titus said...: I am devastated.

Tonight I went to the gym near my house, it's a chain and I can go to any gym but deliberately leave my neighborhood in order to not have to talk to anyone, also there are a couple of fags there-gross.

Anywhoo, some guy started talking to me about bullshit. He was hot, natch. And then out of the blue asked me if I was into younger guys? I was like excuse me? He was 26 and asked my age. I said first of all I am straight and second of all I am not that old.

Then he asked me if my wife and I liked to have two guys fuck her? I was like I beg your pardon. Perhaps, she would of if you didn't refer to me as "older".

Bitch, I was like no hog for you.

I am telling ya it sucks being 40 in the gay world. You can have the best body in the world and look fresh as a daisy and you are still "older". Totally humiliating and devastating. And at the age of 26 he wasn't exactly chicken. I wanted to say I have had much younger and hotter than you bitch, but stayed with the straight angle.

tits.; May 23, 2012 at 11:11 PM
blake said...: Oh, when will homosexuals stop bullying each other?!?; May 23, 2012 at 11:16 PM
Titus said...: The three way comment was concerning my fake wife not my real husband.

We don't do three ways.

I couldn't handle that.

I know he would get more attention because he is younger and hotter than me...and pays for me all the time! He is not that young though-36, which is pretty fucking old.; May 23, 2012 at 11:18 PM
Titus said...: Blake, it's the law. Fags generally hate other fags.

A friend of mine always says if you turned off all the music in a gay bar all you would hear is the sound of "thhht. You know that sound where people put their tongue on the roof of their mouth and some little pop comes like-as is if they are totally irritated by everything.; May 23, 2012 at 11:20 PM
Titus said...: Do you guys all know my husband is a certified scrum master?

So there.; May 23, 2012 at 11:23 PM
blake said...: Titus,

Pretty sure it's always been that way.

I didn't know you needed a cert for scrum. We used to just, you know, do it.; May 23, 2012 at 11:34 PM
chickelit said...: Do you guys all know my husband is a certified scrum master?

Do you need a vowel and consonant for that word? OT I know.; May 24, 2012 at 12:10 AM
Chip S. said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; May 24, 2012 at 12:57 AM
Chip S. said...: ✔; May 24, 2012 at 1:10 AM

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