Kyle's World

So as you can see from the pics below, I went to a baseball game in Fukuoka today. It was my first time to the Fukuoka Dome. So good times all around. First I couldn't believe that my 5000 Yen ticket was only good enough for nosebleed seats. I thought surely my seats would be much closer to the action. It's too bad my friend Yoshiko ended up ditching out on the game, cuz I ended up going by myself. I know, I know, it's about time I got myself a girlfriend. Anyway, an observation about the game. A few rows below me sat a whole bunch of rowdy, foreigner ALT types. I say good on them for being in the spirit of the game. But the wheels fell right off shortly after they started engaging in the wave. I realised then and there why I despise the wave, and I scoff at the fans who try to start it. In this case it was a handful of gaijin among thousands of Japanese people which made it all the more funny. This girl went down to the front of our section to lead the wave. She kept shouting "ichi, ni, san" and then started the wave. But I guess her Japanese stopped cuz after that she merely pointed at the other sections as if that was going to make the wave catch on. She plugged away for about 4 or 5 times then mercifully returned to her seat. I thought perhaps that was the end of their shenanigans, but no, not even a couple innings later, they were at it again. This time their whole crew devoted 2 innings of the baseball game trying to do the wave. This one guy shouted random, undecipherable things in Japanese at the other sections. Thankfully the wave started and died in my section. I don't fault them for trying, but here's the deal about the wave. People who engage in the wave at sporting functions either haven't been paying attention to what's going on at field level or have gotten bored or drunk. So please don't do the wave at sporting events. I hope the Japanese fans in my section realised that I wasn't a part of that other group of gaijins.