I hope we would settle this within this weekend.
Still, waving sayonara to Teruaki Sato and our current championship window is tough…
The pineapple candy which the driver wanted to share was made viral by Akinobu Okada, the manager of Hanshin Tigers who led the team to break the infamous Colonel Sanders curse in the 2023 Nippon Professional Baseball season.
And a basic fact is that the Tigers are more than Osaka’s favourite baseball team, it’s literally a cult there.
And it is further enhanced with their home ballpark - Koshien Stadium - also the official venue of the annual national high school baseball tournament in August and the invitational tournament in March.
After recognising it immediately, I really wanted the challenge related to watching a NPB regular season game (which happened in Yokohama) should had been generated when they were still there…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3GPI3jShKQ
The trailer starts at 48:14 and the shot inside Yokohama Stadium is located at 48:26, if you pay attention there is a Swallows fan in the visitor jersey at the bottom left corner
I really wonder why, how and who (Sam+Tom or Ben+Adam) went there, and why they chose BayStars but not Giants…