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dr4b uploaded a new video
(15 hours ago)
For the Fighters-Giants Japan Series games taking place in Sapporo, the Fighters had a "public viewing" at their minor-league stadium in ...
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For the Fighters-Giants Japan Series games taking place in Sapporo, the Fighters had a "public viewing" at their minor-league stadium in Kamagaya, Chiba Prefecture. About 600-700 people came and watched the game there, with a big screen set up outside the stadium and all of us out there in the cold, with seats and picnic tables and food stands and merchandise stands set up, and the minor-league mascot Cubby wandering around and so on. People sang the cheer songs and clapped cheersticks. It was a generally good time, except for the part where the Fighters lost.
Anyway, this is from the bottom of the 9th inning. The Fighters are down 2-0, with a runner on third, one out, and Naoto Inada is pinch-hitting. The ouendan in Sapporo were doing the Kita no Kuni Kara chance theme, so we were singing along to it as well.
Naoto walked, and you can see how excited we all got as Giants closer Kroon kept throwing balls instead of strikes!
(November 7, 2009.)
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dr4b uploaded a new video
(16 hours ago)
For the Fighters-Giants Japan Series games taking place in Sapporo, the Fighters had a "public viewing" at their minor-league stadium in ...
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For the Fighters-Giants Japan Series games taking place in Sapporo, the Fighters had a "public viewing" at their minor-league stadium in Kamagaya, Chiba Prefecture. About 600-700 people came and watched the game there, with a big screen set up outside the stadium and all of us out there in the cold, with seats and picnic tables and food stands and merchandise stands set up, and the minor-league mascot Cubby wandering around and so on. People sang the cheer songs and clapped cheersticks. It was a generally good time, except for the part where the Fighters lost.
Anyway, this is from the bottom of the 9th inning. The Fighters are down 2-0, with runners on 1st and 3rd, one out, and Atsunori Inaba at bat, Marc Kroon on the mound for the Giants.
So naturally we had to do an Inaba Jump!
(But everyone sat down right after, so that the people behind them could see the screen.)
November 7, 2009.
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dr4b uploaded a new video
(1 month ago)
Exactly one month after the final Fighters game in Chiba, where the two ouendan sang each other's cheer songs after the game, I found myself in Sap...
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Exactly one month after the final Fighters game in Chiba, where the two ouendan sang each other's cheer songs after the game, I found myself in Sapporo for another episode of the same!
(This picks up where the first video left off.)
So we were doing the Tsuyoshi Nishioka cheer song, and the responding tune from the right-field stands was the Yukio Tanaka cheer song. We came back with a "Let's go Marines", waited for a bit, and then they started playing our Fighters "sanka". And the space on my camera ran out, which is why it doesn't go that far into it. Oops.
Lots of fun though. Thanks to the Marines ouendan for being the second-best in the Pacific League (I was also at the last Seibu game and the last Rakuten game, and neither were anywhere as cool as the Marines ones.)
Sorry about the crappy sound quality of the songs coming from the Marines side, but there was this loudspeaker guy talking the entire time we were doing this.
Filmed at the Sapporo Dome, October 3 2009.
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dr4b uploaded a new video
(1 month ago)
Exactly one month after the final Fighters game in Chiba, where the two ouendan sang each other's cheer songs after the game, I found myself in Sap...
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Exactly one month after the final Fighters game in Chiba, where the two ouendan sang each other's cheer songs after the game, I found myself in Sapporo for another episode of the same!
After the first round of "Let's go Marines" and "Ganbare Fighters", we started yelling "BOBBY! BOBBY!" They responded with a cheer of "NASHIDA! NASHIDA!" So we... started doing Fukuura's cheer song. From their side of the stands, we heard the strains of the Tsuboi fanfare ("PL.. Aogaku...") and the Tsuboi cheer song. So we responded in kind with Iwao Ohmura's call ("Old McDonald" but with a chorus of "I-WA-I-WA-OOHHHH"). They replied with the Inaba Jump.
(To be continued in the next video.)
Sorry about the crappy sound quality of the songs coming from the Marines side, but there was this loudspeaker guy talking the entire time we were doing this.
Filmed at the Sapporo Dome, October 3 2009.
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dr4b uploaded a new video
(2 months ago)
I have no idea if this is typical or just happened on this particular day, but one of the Fighters ouendan leaders had the brilliant idea for us to...
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I have no idea if this is typical or just happened on this particular day, but one of the Fighters ouendan leaders had the brilliant idea for us to all sing Atsunori Inaba's at-bat music as he came to the plate (we were the away team, so they were of course not playing songs for the Fighters players). So, this had an acapella rendition of Queen's "I Was Born To Love You", followed by what we call the Inaba Jump. Pretty awesome.
Filmed at Miyagi Kleenex Stadium in Sendai, Sept 6 2009.
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