I’d just like to take this moment and say that Lotte has some kick-butt cheers going on. Especially the most popular chant in its repertoire, which is partially in English (for that stylistic punch that Japanese words lack) and enhanced by gut-thundering Taico drums rumbling in-sync to the words:
“Let’s Go Lotte!” BOOM BOOM BOOM-BOOM-BOOM
“Let’s Go Lotte!” BOOM BOOM BOOM-BOOM-BOOM
(enter musical score as everyone begins to jump) “Go Lotte, Go Lotte! (Insert Japanese phrase here). Go Lotte, Go Lotte! (Insert Japanese phrase here).”
“Let’s Go Lotte!” BOOM BOOM BOOM-BOOM-BOOM
“Let’s Go Lotte!” BOOM BOOM BOOM-BOOM-BOOM
It was so catchy that I actually found myself singing under my breath every time the Taico drums would start up. The opposing team’s chants weren’t nearly as awesome. If the teams were going up against each other in a WWF wrestling match, Lotte would win by the sheer superiority of its theme music.
I also forgot to mention that Lotte won the game we attended. Naturally. No one can withstand the crazy power of “Go!!” with the might of a thousand sweets enthusiasts marching behind it.
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Hurray for baseball!!! It's one of my favorite games to watch or play! It gives me a good feeling to think that there are people 16 time zones away who enjoy it too in their own special way.
Here is what we heard at last weekends marriage confrence in Estes about baseball. Football is about war, and baseball is a "heavenly" sport:
# Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.
# Football is a twentieth century technological struggle.
# Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park.
# Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called soldier field or war memorial stadium.
# Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
# Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying.
# In football you wear a helmet.
# In baseball you wear a cap.
# Football is concerned with downs. "What down is it?"
# Baseball is concerned with ups. "Who's up? Are you up? I'm not up! He's up!"
# In football you recieve a penalty.
# In baseball you make an error.
# Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling, personal fouls, late hitting, and unnecessary roughness.
# Baseball has the sacrifice.
# Baseball has the seventh-inning stretch.
# Football has the two minute warning.
# In football the object is for the quarterback to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his recievers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz.
# In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! "I hope I'll be safe at home!"
Hope you liked that. =)
~Christy Aspinwall
Baseball here is definitely a good time :) I've heard that there actually are "fair-weather" fans... but if that's true, they really throw themselves into a game regardless.
Hey Christy, that's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing hon!
That whole "BOOM BOOM BOOM-BOOM-BOOM" thing was really amusing, because I, too, find that to be unique to baseball in Japan.
It just isn't Japanese baseball, whether in person or on tv, if the drums are not being pounded in the background :)
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