@PhilR8: I don't know, are they going to be screening the Angels/Cubs World Series on their giant screens?

Vander

Baseball's fun when you have other people to woop and wave with you for no good reason other than that thousands of other people are doing the same. Too bad they're not like soccer fans. A fan avalanche spilling into the field to dismember players would really spice things up.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

@Junginator:
agreed.

fromagesfondus

what about overpriced budweiser and questionable hot dogs? you just can't call it baseball w/o those crucial ingredients

Weihovah

I think that I saw this episode of No Reservations already.

twoeightnine

Let's talk about another exciting team that's also playing in a big, loud, ugly dome...

THE TAMPA BAY RAYS. The paradigm have shifted in the American League East. How loud will the Trop be during a World Series game? I'm thinking pretty god damned loud.

PhilR8

Baseball is like watching paint dry.

Junginator

this post has basically nothing to do with technology. all references were just put in there to try and sneak it by.

but its fricken awesome. though im upset japanese baseball isnt more like blurnsball...

PaaatrickBabyBoy

I can't see the shots that you took with D700 for some reason.

Baseball is also very popular sport in Korea. Ask any Korean about Lotte Giants and they will tell you how crazy those fans are.

A few years ago, I was working in Detroit for an auto company, and we had a few engineers from Hyundai visiting us. After work, I took them out to a Tigers game against Yankees, and the Hyundai guys were board to death. They were surprised that the stadium was so quiet, and complained to me that there were no hot cheerleaders in the stadium.

ywpark

@PhilR8: Baseball indoors is a crime against nature. Thankfully Minnesota is building a new place. That just leaves that sin against baseball architecture, the Trop.

CubFan81

Damn, makes me think of our beloved metrodome. Like a friend of mine said, likely one of the few nfl stadiums where taking a piss and getting another beer takes longer than halftime. (took me about 5 minutes longer, and I left 2 minutes early)

dieman

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: errr that got messed up. <you name it> teriyaki on a stick which is sold in every orifice of the country.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

I miss Japan and being able to buy teriyaki on a stick being sold in every orifice of the country. I know they must be selling that! I'm hungry now.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@kingmophat:
Psst - he's the editorial director, doesn't that mean he's kinda the boss? On topic though, I love Tokyo because of the side by side old and new.

dizzytired

@Kaiser-Machead on the Edge: At least then there would be physical exertion in baseball.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

i love how the second half of the names for both those teams are english words. maybe it's time we change our baseball teams names to the New York Kalamari's and the Los Angelos Suzukis

Nat3

sweet fancy moses. who cares? can someone fire this guy already. I don't care if this gets me booted. this is stupid. "gizmodo"? justify the post by saying you took some pictures? get your own personal blog and leave gizmodo for gadgetry! ugh. crunchgear it is.

kingmophat

@fromagesfondus: I'd bet neither of you have been to an actual major league game. It's a big difference between watching it on the tube and being in the stands. Especially for a team you like.

Toshie

Dude, Hanshin Tigers. Not Osaka (they aren't even based in Osaka). The teams in Japan are all owned by corporations and named after the owners - Hanshin is a train company. I lived in Kobe in the 80s when the Tigers were on top, with an american slugger named Randy Bass playing for them (each team was, maybe is, allowed only two foreign players). He didn't break the Japanese home run record only because the Giants - in the last game of the season - walked him rather than give him a chance at passing it. He was a really nice guy (we all babysat his kids)... I hear he's in politics now. Baaasu!

dennitzio

how come everything is better in Japan?

exer881

Japanese baseball games are way more fun than American games, you have a "designated cheerleader" for each section who lead the chants that Blam was talking about. It's usually a sweaty fat drunk guy wearing a jacket that designates him as such, who yells the chants at the top of his lungs, add to this people playing drums and horns the whole time your chanting with a few thousand people around you, it's pretty fun! The stadiums are much smaller than American stadiums and the games move incredibly fast. The fans are more interesting than the game IMHO. Also instead of a fat, sweaty old guy bringing you beer, it is a beautiful 20 year old Japanese girl! If you get a hot dog on a stick steer clear of the mustard(It's spicy chinese mustard)

antitrust311

@kingmophat: Yeeeeee Howdy!! Shame on you and your food on a stick hating self. If it involves Japan then it's gadget related darn it!.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@kingmophat: piss off dude. if you don't like the article then don't read it

Charging_Mooses

and this is relate to gadget, because...................................................................

k2001

@PaaatrickBabyBoy: I think they are still researching better elastic tethers.

@twoeightnine: That episode of No Reservations was awesome when he was out in the bleachers. I love when they set off all the balloons.

meamgood

@antitrust311: it designates him as a sweaty, fat, drunk guy? i think i need one of those jackets!

altgrave

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: orifice?

altgrave

@k2001: i hate it when people like you say that. it is extremely ignorant. if you want nothing but gadget news, go over to fleshbot... erm... i mean engadget. i love this blog because of the personal accounts the staff posts. thats why its better than the rest.

Charging_Mooses

@altgrave: and stop thinking of human secretion zones. I totally meant to imply that.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

@altgrave: oh, sorry. Every nook and cranny? They sell it everywhere, and they should. It's good!

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

Blam,

I too hate that guy who says "this is related to gadgets why...?" Actually, you mentioned the tech (or in this case possible lack-of-it) throughout your article. And like Charging Mooses said, go read Engadget if strictly want tech (I read it once a month at best only to be re-reminded why I like Gizmodo so much!)

I, in part, read your blog because it DOES cover so many things, including all-things-Japanese, which I love btw.

So please, don't change a thing. Gizmodo rocks.

Bruhaha

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: Nook and cranny? Isn't that English Muffins? Chicken on a stick on a English Muffin? That doesn't sound that good.

Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->

@shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: uh huh.

altgrave

I think Japanese Baseball is very different, but a lot of fun. You forgot the best gadget they have! The Tokyo Dome has keg girls that walk around with kegs of beer on their back. You have to see it to believe it! The kegs are almost as big as the girls.

redsnuff

I went to see a Nagoya match, and what I found very interesting (besides everything you just said) is that when chanting one of the songs was:
"悪いけど、ホームラン"

(warui kedo, ho-mu ran)

which means something like they're telling the other team: "we're going to score a homerun" in a polite way.

Waka in Japan

@altgrave: Hmmmm no, it designates him as the chearleader, he stands up front with a bullhorn and a jacket and yells the cheers and everyone follows along! They just happen to be sweaty, fat drunk guys! And I'm serious about that mustard, I covered a hotdog in it thinking it was regular mustard, man that stuff can clear your sinuses!

antitrust311

I went to a Sebu Lions game once - it was kind of fun. I got a kick out of the balloon streamers that liked like blue sperm that they shot off around the 7th inning.

I also noticed how the fans only seemed to cheer when their team was up to bat - never when they were in the field (or was it vice versa?).

tidybowl

@Charging_Mooses:
Hey, I got nothing against a little personal touch, but enough with showing off pictures of vacations, gf, etc...
Please, this stuff belong to his personal blog.
What's next? Pictures of the in-laws? and pass it off as gadget related because they're wearing some fancy dentures?

Dr.Blip

@kingmophat:
I agree.
You're in freak'n Japan, there must be something interesting that we you could show us.

Dr.Blip

@k2001:
the camera i think :)

i come to giz to see gadgets, but found this, thanks to Lisa

medopal

Fuck the naysayers. I like these kinds of posts.

highfloydelity

@Charging_Mooses:
If I want to know the different between Japan and American baseball I would of head of to some other site. This is a technology and gadget blog. I just don't want it to be spammed with entries that are not relate to gadget whatsoever.

k2001

@dieman:

dumpty-dome was the first thing i thought of when i saw the cover shot. i hope when they re-do it, they have a retractable. i fear for the twinks when it snows in april. or may. methinks that the current crop of fans will be mightily disappointed when they get rained on a few times, or when it gets cold out.

godwhacker

People, at least he tried to appease the gadget obsessed by mentioning the 1 seg capability at Tokyo Dome. I bet most of you complaining didn't even read the article, nor will you even read this comment.. Why did I even bother.

ojisan

I went to a Giants game when my parents lived in Tokyo. I've never been big into baseball, but I really liked the cute girls who ran up and down the stadium with beer on their backs!

DorkRawk

@CubFan81: Agreed - whatever they were thinking in Florida making their baseball stadium a dome, I'll never know. At least the folks in Houston had the good sense to make the roof retractable and include windows to let in natural light. Lack of natural light will put me to sleep faster than anything else when watching an AL baseball game...

NightElfMohawk

Is that "Go Cubs Go" in Japanese?

Yes, I'm both a dork and a Cubs fan... sue me. The fans just seem too polite there - while I'm by no means a belligerent fan, I do enjoy yelling "bullshit!" at certain strike calls while at the game. I have this feeling they'd have a problem with that in Japan.

NightElfMohawk

@Dr.Blip: What, you'd rather have 9 posts in a row about the HTC G1? This really breaks up the monotony.

Enochrewt

Wow, my posted got deleted, well if you can't give me an explanation, then here it is again:
"I'm enthralled by brians life and all, but did this article really need to be bumped up to the top of the front page again, after more recent articles had already been posted?"

jkr's bold comment

@Enochrewt:
No what I would really like is another post on the iPhone. I think we haven't yet look at the screws that are holding the battery in place... I bet those are fine screws :)

Good point though... I guess seeing the in-laws fancy denture would indeed break up the monotony.

Dr.Blip

Hmm Strange.. looks like a half sized version of BC Place stadium. Similar roof, but missing the top two decks.. and not large enough for a football field.

diverguy

@PhilR8: Florida baseball fans are laughable. I'll take my old section 500 nights and weekend tickets at Wrigley over the thousand dollar millionaires watching the game in a dome -A DOME!

The vikings need to bust out of the dome too and lose their purple. For gawds sake purple and football is just as bad.

SeattleTed

@dennitzio: Same thing happened to Tuffy Rhodes when he was going to break Oh's single-season HR mark - they just stopped pitching to him once he tied the record. Assholes.

PhilR8

@SeattleTed: Hey, you might be right - I don't live anywhere near Florida, so I wouldn't know. But I love baseball and I HATE the red sox and yankees, so right now the Rays are a-okay in my book. And I even kind of like the Trop. It has a sort of ugly charm to it.

PhilR8

@highfloydelity: I concur.

shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog

Hey, only those who have seen it can attest to it--baseball in Japan is 900x more exciting than the U.S....for one thing, FIGHTS! Its way more fun,...not just for sleeping drunks.

loslosbaby

Baseball games in Korea are a lot of fun, too! Fans can take picnic baskets into the game... and there are CHEERLEADERS!

halfkorean

@Bruhaha: The difference between gizmodo and other gadget blogs is a strong sense that life comes before gadgets and gadgets fit into life. I get the sense that people who expect post after post of crap being shoved down their gullets don't have their priorities straight. Needless to say, I appreciate the kinds of readers who I'd also like to get a beer with.

Brian Lam

@jkr's bold we actually pulled it because it would sit top page too long and during a quiet period. then we published it again at 4:30am before the morning rush.
Does that make sense?

Brian Lam

@Bruhaha: Thank you for being a human being.

Brian Lam

This new comment system makes my brain hurt almost as much as that damned mirrored Rubik's cube!

Galley