Monday, October 25, 2004

Japan Series

Unfortunately the Dragons couldn't be champions in the Japan series. The Lions won. From this year, Japanese baseball has set up the wild card from Major League. Lions came from wild card. Dragons almost got one. They were leading one game 3-2.. but yesterday the Lions won instead..So they are tied 3-3.. Then Lions won again.. Wild card team has so much potential. Same as Major League, Boston Redsox came from Wild card and they are leading Cardinals 2-0. But one can never know... We don't know what can happen between a match until the last game.

As I said in my early entry, I support the Dragons because the manager has a twisted personality. A twisted personality..it sounds bad.. but this can vary.. Usually this person has an own strong personality and belief. Doesn't matter what other people think and what is going on in the world. They know what is good and bad from their own belief even if other people thought that's an extraordinary idea. So this manager has his own vision, too. He just followed his way. Usually mass media followed his extraordinary way.. But it's not extraordinary for me at all because he just followed basic way and he controlled the players this way.. It's very simple. Three simple responsibility.

1. Batter : To get scores before other team gets one.
2. Pitcher : To protect these scores until the end of the game. In other words, don't give scores to the other team more than their own score.
3. Fielder : Not to do error.

That's it.. I think his vision is based on these 3 responsibilities. It's very simple and it's also common sense.. So that's why his team is strong. Unfortunately the Dragons didn't win this time..

After Dragons lost, he made a bow. When I saw this picture, I can feel his gentle fighting spirit and he will do it again next year.