You know you've been around Pro Yakyu too long when:

Well, I scored 15 out of 25. (Some more were partial matches, like in now only use the metric system.) Does that make me guilty?

To add to those, I have:

26. Shocked at the size of players when attending an MLB game while in the States for a conference.

27. Expect the #2 batter to bunt after a lead off base hit.

Of course, I was watching the 'Stars defeat the Carp on J-Sky Sports when I read this.

28. You catch a foul ball at an MLB game and you look around for the usher who's going to snatch it back from you.

> Sayonara

How about:

You think the phrase "timely error" should be used in MLB.

I also have to concur with the convenience of "sayonara" as well.

You like "sansha bontai" better than "three up three down," or "got the side out in order." To add to this, "sansha sanshin" is more convenient to say than "striking out the side."

You are in the states and get nostalgic for Meiji Jingu Stadium.

You like "fine play" better than "web gem."

You think U.S. ballpark food sucks compared to what you can buy in Japan, but you wish NPB clubs marketed goods as well as MLB teams do.

It looks weird to you when a player hits a homer and doesn't get a stuffed animal coming around third base.

>2. While watching an MLB game, you wonder what the player gets after he gets three hits.

OK, I'll admit my ignorance. I don't understand this one. Do Japanese players get some sort of award if they get three hits in a game? Does this have something to do with the baseball cards I've seen showing players holding some sort of doll of the team's mascot?

Thanks,
Dave

As Garland-san mentions in another reply, the "doll of the team's mascot" is for hitting a home run. One to keep and one to throw into the stands. The recipient of the "hero interview" gets a pair too. Well, at least when he's on the home team.

The "three hits" thing-

In Japanese baseball when a batter gets three hits in a game it's called a modasho (I can't at the moment remember what the MO means but the other two are "hit award"). For the longest time at the Fukuoka Dome, where I saw most of my games, they got a hankerchief set for getting a modasho. It's usually some strange little thing of little value.

> In Japanese baseball when a batter gets three hits in
> a game it's called a modasho (I can't at the
> moment remember what the MO means but the other two
> are "hit award"). For the longest time at the
> Fukuoka Dome, where I saw most of my games, they got
> a hankerchief set for getting a modasho. It's
> usually some strange little thing of little value.

The "mo" (or rather, mou) means "fierce" or "strong". Thus, you have "moukou" - Fierce Tigers; "mougyuu" - Fierce Buffaloes. Or, more simply, "mousho" - fierce heat, or "mouretsu" - violent, intense, furious.

Interestingly enough, even though the Mariners don't give out such rewards, it was still referred to as "moudasho" when Ichiro got 3+ hits.

Based on # 19, am I correct in assuming that all Japanese stadia are symmetrical?

> You wonder how many gaijin there are with the
> Seattle Mariners.

You mean the western version of the Orix Blue
Wave?

> "Sayonara" beats "Walk-off" any day.

Like the homer Adrian Beltre hit last season the first time the Dodgers played the Mariners. I told the friend who went to the game with me, "That was a 'sayonara' homer."

> You go to Koshien for the yakisoba.

That's like going to Anaheim's Edison Field for the chicken bowls...

> 55 is the record to beat, not 73.

"Oh I can't go for that, nooo, no can do..."

Now the question is, can Barry Bonds or Junior or Slammy get to 868?