Thursday, May 12, 2005
Baseball Ruminations
Japanese baseball games can end in a tie. What's up with that? What kind of bastardized version of baseball do they play here? Part of the beauty of baseball is that you play till someone wins, whether it takes 6 hours and 18 innings or not. There are no ties in baseball. So it's so foreign to see ties in the morning paper boxscores.
A foreign relief pitcher, Marc Kroon, apparently hit 159km on the radar gun when he pitched tonight, a new Japanese baseball record. Since there's 1.6km's in every mile, he almost hit 100mph which seems strange that it's a record. I think pitchers (whether on steroids or not) regularly hit 100mph and beyond in the big leagues.
And further eveidence of just how Kiyohara is a turkey. He homered today, then was hit by a pitch in his next at bat. Well he sparked a bench clearing brawl. The pitch may have been intentional, but there's never bench clearing incidents in Japan. I think he thinks he's hot shit...not the case. I can see through you Kiyohara!!
A foreign relief pitcher, Marc Kroon, apparently hit 159km on the radar gun when he pitched tonight, a new Japanese baseball record. Since there's 1.6km's in every mile, he almost hit 100mph which seems strange that it's a record. I think pitchers (whether on steroids or not) regularly hit 100mph and beyond in the big leagues.
And further eveidence of just how Kiyohara is a turkey. He homered today, then was hit by a pitch in his next at bat. Well he sparked a bench clearing brawl. The pitch may have been intentional, but there's never bench clearing incidents in Japan. I think he thinks he's hot shit...not the case. I can see through you Kiyohara!!
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Well, you would be surprised to see how slow pitchers are in Mexico...by the time the ball gets to the catcher on the first pitch of the first inning, you've already had three beers and two hot dogs, and needless to say,it makes for an extremely boring afternoon. But that's only in Mexico City and the South...the Pacific league is quite good, but not a lot faster or more exciting than the other professional "beisbol" leagues. One thing that you can be assured of is that you won't have any seating problems as you mention in one of your previous posts: the stadiums are always empty, so you can feel free to grab seats right behind home for the price of a nose bleed seat.
That gaijin guy throws like a girl...not like the great Chien-Ming Wang..hahahaha I probablu just jinxed him. Watch Wang get send down to the minors next week.
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