Dee Brown of the Seibu Lions fight song (応援歌)

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Dee Brown, formerly of my Oakland A’s (for three at bats anyway–two of which ended with a strike out), played for my Japanese team, the Seibu Lions, as well. This card, the cheerleader is holding, shows his fight song which sounds like this and can be translated as:

I believe you
I believe you
Shoot and flap far with the crack of the bat

I’m guessing the “I believe you” part should actually be “I believe in you” and the rest is basically asking for a home run or a well-hit ball. Rather than a walk-out song, like we have in the USA, in Japan these individualized fight songs are played/sung throughout a player’s at bat.

Posted on March 27th, 2019 under Japan. Tags: baseball, seibu lions, tokorozawa. Comments Off on Happy birthday, Dee Brown!

After watching a Seibu Lions game last year we were able to go down on the field with many other fans. Not only were we on the field but we were on the big screen as well. Ryan was rather excited (can you spot him?). Ellie, on the other hand, had been on big screens so many times (thanks to her blonde hair) by this point in Japan that I think she was doing more to get off the screen than remain in the public eye.

Posted on May 25th, 2011 under Japan. Tags: baseball, ellie, people, ryan, seibu lions, tokorozawa. Comments: 3

My first game of the season was a good one. My Lions beat the visiting Nippon-Ham Fighters from Hokkaido.

Half the fun at Japanese baseball games is the cheering. Above is a video I took of one of the many cheers. Get your cheers down before the game for maximum enjoyment. 😉 Here you can practice them with music, but you need to be able to read Japanese.

The words to the cheer (for a player named 久) in the video are:
光り輝く　
日はまた昇る　
燃える男だ　
チャンスに久
かとばせ久
Go Go Let’s Go 久

Posted on April 24th, 2010 under Japan. Tags: baseball, seibu lions, tokorozawa, video. Comments: 7

To say that the Japanese overreacted to the Swine Flu scare is more than a bit of an understatment. A group of educators were supposed to come to my university in Oregon, but they all canceled due to the H1N1 hysteria. Never mind that there are far fewer cases in my neck of the rural woods than there are in densely populated Japan (meaning they would have been safer here than at home) or that the death rate from this flu bug is less than it is for the regular flu (which inflicts far more people anyway).

One of Japan’s Swine Flu “precautions” was the prohibiting of balloons at professional baseball games. I’m happy to report that this ban has finally been ended, just in time for my arrival and attendance at Japanese ball games. Yeah!

Let the launchings begin…

Posted on July 4th, 2009 under Japan. Tags: baseball, seibu lions, tokorozawa. Comments: 2

アーケード大通り or The Big Street Arcade at 西武園ゆうえんち.

Posted on June 18th, 2009 under Japan. Tags: amusement parks, tokorozawa, Tokyo. Comments Off on Game arcade at Seibuen Yuenchi