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One year ago on Round and Square (18 June 2012)—Fieldnotes From History: Provincial Elections (a)Two years ago on Round and Square (18 June 2011)—Living and Learning: Teaching the Emperor
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| [a] Individual and Society RF |
可飛ばせ, 山本!
Let 'er rip, Yamamoto! OR
Fly to base, Yamamoto!
Fly to base, Yamamoto!
—Common Japanese baseball chant
(Yamamoto is a common surname, like "Jenkins")
(Yamamoto is a common surname, like "Jenkins")
And sometimes Japanese baseball players let 'er rip (and fly to base) in ballparks they don't usually see in the ordinary course of events.
Like the American major leagues, Japanese professional baseball finally relented in 2005 and began...interleague play.
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| [b] Central League: Yokohama RF |
Just as the American League and National League teams in the United States play against each other during the season (and not only in the All-Star Game and the World Series), so, too, do the Pacific League and Central League teams play home-and-home two-game series every year.
It all happens over a two-month stretch in the middle of the season, and is probably a (generally) good thing, even for traditionalists. You see, some of the teams way off in the "west" don't get as much attention as Yokohama, Tokyo, and others. This way, they get to play in the other ballparks and show their stuff to fans all over Japan.
And yet...traditionalists like moi, Besuboro Guy, just don't like it (and don't even get me talking about the designated hitter.
[If you don't read Japanese, but want to have some sense of the Japanese kana and kanji in these posts, just copy the phrases and paste them into translation software such as Babylon or Google Translate].
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