野球
野球 - baseball
Last night, for the experience and for the fun of it, we went to a Chiba Lotte Marines baseball game. They were the league champions a couple years ago and I think they're supposed to be pretty good. Japanese baseball follows the same rules as it does in the US, but there are lot of differences.
Marine Stadium
Long line
Before the game
Players on the field
Another view
Me dropping my balloon late - at certain times (6th inning or so?) everyone lets go of balloons and they make a funny noise.
The parks are incredibly clean, like most of the rest of the country. Fans were a lot different, there was an entire section with like a choir of fans cheering for basically the whole time. I forgot most of their chants but it was pretty complicated Japanese. They interview the players over the PA and jumbotron at the end of the game too.
The food wasn't too insanely expensive, just like 800 yen for a burger and fries and chicken wings all in a set. Beer was 600 yen a cup though, and I had me a few. The way they sell beer is pretty awe insipring, and makes me wonder why American parks don't operate the same way. Cute girls go around carrying beer in mini-kegs that they're packing on their backs. We were amazed and so we had to get pictures with as many as possible.
Asahi
Asahi 2
Coke
Sapporo
Kirin - she was pretty mad
Pretty campus pics & misc
The "central park" type place of the campus
Another view of that
Yet another
A heated toilet
With high tech controls
Last night, for the experience and for the fun of it, we went to a Chiba Lotte Marines baseball game. They were the league champions a couple years ago and I think they're supposed to be pretty good. Japanese baseball follows the same rules as it does in the US, but there are lot of differences.
Marine Stadium
Long line
Before the game
Players on the field
Another view
Me dropping my balloon late - at certain times (6th inning or so?) everyone lets go of balloons and they make a funny noise.
The parks are incredibly clean, like most of the rest of the country. Fans were a lot different, there was an entire section with like a choir of fans cheering for basically the whole time. I forgot most of their chants but it was pretty complicated Japanese. They interview the players over the PA and jumbotron at the end of the game too.
The food wasn't too insanely expensive, just like 800 yen for a burger and fries and chicken wings all in a set. Beer was 600 yen a cup though, and I had me a few. The way they sell beer is pretty awe insipring, and makes me wonder why American parks don't operate the same way. Cute girls go around carrying beer in mini-kegs that they're packing on their backs. We were amazed and so we had to get pictures with as many as possible.
Asahi
Asahi 2
Coke
Sapporo
Kirin - she was pretty mad
Pretty campus pics & misc
The "central park" type place of the campus
Another view of that
Yet another
A heated toilet
With high tech controls
