MLB 12 The Show Countdown

[nomo17k]

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Mookie....

[Majingir]

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Since most people will either be out at midnight release, or sleeping or something else by 12am, I'll just post it early...

[sydrogerdavid]

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Since most people will either be out at midnight release, or sleeping or something else by 12am, I'll just post it early...

I always took it as 00 meant 100 and not 0.

[Doormat]

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Since most people will either be out at midnight release, or sleeping or something else by 12am, I'll just post it early...

No fair, I didn't get to post my #1 yet

[sydrogerdavid]

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Bringing it home.

#0 Kerry Robinson

Going to get the game in less than 45 minutes. Great time counting down with you guys again this year. We'll start from 00 next year.

[douggoud]

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#0, Outfielder/First Baseman, Al Oliver



#00, Left Fielder, Jeffrey Leonard



Time to go to sleep so I can go buy The Show tomorrow.

[Knight165]

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Nice job this year fellas!
I love the countdown.


M.K.
Knight165

[douggoud]

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Bringing it home.

#0 Kerry Robinson

Going to get the game in less than 45 minutes. Great time counting down with you guys again this year. We'll start from 00 next year.

Not necessarily, there are some players in Japan that wear the number 100. Either way, you guys can start with 00, I'll start with 100, lol

EDIT: Scratch that, even though they give out numbers over 100 to players (usually, the players that are under development, or are prospects, since they don't really have minor leagues in Japan) I can't find ANY pictures of them. The only one I can think of that I would have luck funding is one of the Japanese team's mascots. I've seen a picture of one that's wearing the number 111, or something like that, lol. But yeah, I can only assume that they don't actually give those players a jersey with the 100+ number on it.

[nomo17k]

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Masahiro Kawai

What is he known for?

533 sacrifice hits from 1984 to 2006 in the Japanese league.

He's been considered a hero in a culture where 30,000 people take their own lives yearly.

[douggoud]

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Masahiro Kawai

What is he known for?

533 sacrifice hits from 1984 to 2006 in the Japanese league.

He's been considered a hero in a culture where 30,000 people take their own lives yearly.

Not much of a surprise (also, I assume you mean bunts), Japanese baseball is built upon this part of the game. If you can't do that, you usually don't last long if you can't do much else (which actually goes without saying I guess).

[nomo17k]

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Not much of a suprise (also, I assume you mean bunts), Japanese baseball is built upon this part of the game. If you can't do that, you usually don't last long if you can't do much else (which actually goes without saying I guess).

It's actually symbolic of how their version of baseball evolved differently from baseball in US, where the value of sac bunt has long been diminishing over the years. Partly that's due to the fans/players smitten with power, and to some extent because of sabermetrics which tells sac bunt is only good if you are going for just one run...

Japan tends to idolize a person giving up oneself for the sake of the community, which sac bunt perfectly represents... But in a way that tells their version of baseball is still a bit behind strategically.

It's quite interesting how baseball adapts to social norms!

[illini4life]

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PLAY BALL!

[douggoud]

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It's actually symbolic of how their version of baseball evolved differently from baseball in US, where the value of sac bunt has long been diminishing over the years. Partly that's due to the fans/players smitten with power, and to some extent because of sabermetrics which tells sac bunt is only good if you are going for just one run...

Japan tends to idolize a person giving up oneself for the sake of the community, which sac bunt perfectly represents... But in a way that tells their version of baseball is still a bit behind strategically.

It's quite interesting how baseball adapts to social norms!

Definitely, I love Japanese baseball, their athleticism is on a whole different level (as well as their devotion, I'm sure you've seen that one video of that outfielder diving head long into the right field foul wall and still catching the ball even though he went face first into the wall, he could of broken his neck or something). Not to mention, guys like Ichiro, Hideki Matsui, Hideo Nomo, and others, have wowed people here in the States. Hopefully I can go on a trip to Japan someday and discover my roots

[nomo17k]

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Hopefully I can go on a trip to Japan someday and discover my roots

Oh I see. No wonder you knew them. Well you know what it's only 10 hrs away from LA, lol. ... unless you intend to swim there.

Yeah I can tell you that people over there love baseball just as much, if not more. In fact they've considered the sport their national pastime for a long time. Where's Amerika???

[douggoud]

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Oh I see. No wonder you knew them. Well you know what it's only 10 hrs away from LA, lol. ... unless you intend to swim there.

Yeah I can tell you that people over there love baseball just as much, if not more. In fact they've considered the sport their national pastime for a long time. Where's Amerika???

Swimming definitely would be cheaper Though I'd probably get eaten by a shark, so I'll try the flight, lol. Its not so much the getting there, its the, when I'm there part. When I say, my roots, I mean that I'm only 1/4th Japanese, so I've never had the opportunity to learn Japanese, though, hopefully, I'll be able to take a Japanese language class pretty soon here.

Oh God yes they do. High school baseball is bigger than minor league baseball here, lol. Koshien is almost as big as the NPB itself. It's kinda sad that baseball isn't as big here as it is there. I mean, while I would be absolutely terrified to pitch in front of a crowd of over 25,000 people at the age of 17, I'd rather have that than maybe 30 people at most (I blame football for baseball's fall in importance to the people ). Anyways, yeah, where is that place?