Bit late update, actually ive been too lazy to update about the worldcup, but Holland made it to the final. WTF?????? Yes a big WTF? Whod expected that? After tonight we will know who will be the opponent. Germany or Spain. Personally I friggin hate spain, but I also hate Germany. However, if we do lose, I hope its by Germany. Germany showed some seriously asskicking this worldcup.
So either we lose and it should be Germany. However if Spain makes it, the chances will grow a few percent for Holland to win. But lets wait and find out. Go Holland!
Yesterday I went to my first ever pro-league baseball game in Japan. And it was A W E S O M E. I lurved it. Actually baseball is not huge in Holland and I was never that interested in the game, but since I played it with a friend of mine in Tokyo 5 years ago for fun I started liking it more and more.
Since I live in Osaka, the Osaka team Hanshin Tigers is the one to root for. I’ll have it no other way. The Hanshin Tigers rock. Well except yesterday. Exactly the game I see live and they lose. Hey its NOT my fault, lets get that straight heh.
Japanese sports are soooo very different from European sports. Everybody is so cheerful and happy, EVEN when they lose. That is one of the reasons I seriously HATE sports in Europe. Always hooligans, always drunk (well here too actually hehe) and always fighting. It should be like the sports here in Japan. The thing is, f.e. amongst the hundreds and thousands of Hanshin fans there were a few Hiroshima fans shouting. You CANT do that in Holland. If f.e. a Real fan is amidst of Ajax, Arsenal or Roma fans, it will be his last match. Not here.
My friend and I were actually sitting at the quiet side of the stadium, right across the field was the core of the fans, singing, chanting, waving huge flags. I learned that Hanshin has a few songs/cheers/anthems, but I couldn’t make out any of them, so we just hummed the same sounds heh. Plus they use these 2 plastic bats, smash them together on the beats.
Check it out in the video, not really clear, but in the end you can see some bats being smashed together.
The first 4 innings went smooth, points for both teams. Hanshin Tigers had a bit trouble getting into the game but managed to score 4 points in the 3rd inning. After that it went downhill for Hanshin. for 5 straight innings they didn’t manage to score 1 single point.
BUT, the crowd didn’t give up. Almost at the end of the 6th inning everybody in the audience started inflating balloons. The audience was completely filled with balloons and when the teams changed at the 6 to 7th inning. PWROAP!!!
Thousands of balloons flew in the air. What a friggin nice sight. And it helped. Hanshin Tigers got strength again. from a 5-11 score they score 3 points and made it 8-11. But unfortunately, not enough.
European (soccer)fans should take an example of this. This how sports should be.
Go Tigers.
a crappy video I made with my cellphone. Note to self: bring HD camera next time.
