Baseball
13 Aug 2006
Baseball is baseball, but nevertheless it is very nice to watch a baseball game in Japan. We went to Fukuoka to watch the Softbank Hawks in action. Of course we had to buy something from the market with Hawks stuff, so we could properly cheer them on.
The cheerleaders were also there, of course. Doing their best to cheer on the team.
The scoreboard didn't help us much....
They probably thought it was important for the gaijin (foreigners) to understand the information about the players. It was shown in English.
Halfway through the game, people started blowing up balloons. We had no idea what was going to happen with those fallus shaped balloons. At a certain point, everybody let the balloons go. With a shrieking sound, thousands of balloons went up in the air. The whole stadium looked green.
Harry the Hawk, the mascotte of the Softbank Hawks, walks around the stadium throughout the game. Of course Harry was happy to pose with this blonde gaijin...
The cheerleaders were also there, of course. Doing their best to cheer on the team.
The scoreboard didn't help us much....
They probably thought it was important for the gaijin (foreigners) to understand the information about the players. It was shown in English.
Halfway through the game, people started blowing up balloons. We had no idea what was going to happen with those fallus shaped balloons. At a certain point, everybody let the balloons go. With a shrieking sound, thousands of balloons went up in the air. The whole stadium looked green.
Harry the Hawk, the mascotte of the Softbank Hawks, walks around the stadium throughout the game. Of course Harry was happy to pose with this blonde gaijin...