"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
04/16/2016 at 07:04 • Filed to: None
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"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
04/16/2016 at 07:04 • Filed to: None | 3
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Last time I went to a game, I was still living in San Francisco. That’s quite some times ago :)
Osaka Hanshin Tigers vs Nagoya Dragons. Nagoya won 4-3 scoring two points on the last inning. Not much happened during the whole game but the last 3 innings were VERY good! I’ll probably go watch more games from now on. The stadium was surprisingly packed for a match that wasn’t that important and it was a very enjoyable experience! Very different atmosphere when compared to baseball games in America.
TheRevanchist
> Flavien Vidal
04/16/2016 at 09:19 |
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Very different experience! We would watch the games on TV. I had my Seibu Lions glove, which was all blue. The stands in Japan were always chanting something, eating bowls of noodles, and cheering constantly, like what I see in the playoff atmosphere here, without the noodles, of course.
TDogg
> Flavien Vidal
04/16/2016 at 10:52 |
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Very cool. How was the atmosphere different?
66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash
> Flavien Vidal
04/16/2016 at 11:02 |
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Do you know how these guys compare to American major league teams (or how the best in Japan compare).
Cool to see a sport like baseball over there though.
Alex from Toronto
> 66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash
04/16/2016 at 13:42 |
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It’s a AAAA league, a step above AAA but a step below the major league. Thats why most players who go to Japan often play really well.
But nonetheless it’s a pretty cool league.
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Flavien Vidal
> 66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash
04/16/2016 at 20:26 |
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It’s not on the same level. I wouldn’t be able to go into detail as to why it’s not on the same level, but from unexperimented eyes, considering that the Nagoya Dragons and the Hanshin tigers are some of the best japanese teams, I saw too many mistakes being done for what is the top league in Japan.
As a comparaison, you would notice that VERY few japanese players move to the MLB, and when they do they are the best of the best (Ichiro comes to mind). American players moving to Japanese teams to finally find sucess they couldn’t get in the US is much more common though.
It was very entertaining nonetheless!!
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Flavien Vidal
> TDogg
04/16/2016 at 20:29 |
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Lots of old people, very choregraphed fans, ZERO animosity between fans who often end up being mixed in the stadium (and Hanshin Tigers fans are considered to be “the worst” fans in Japan lol), LOTS of beer everywhere and constantly with girls running around with kegs of different beer brands to serve spectators, and overall just a familial athmosphere that I didn’t find in SF...