(Not a fan of Barstool, just giving credit where it’s due).
He’s had high highs with the Swallows. Won a chip, appeared in the Japan finals the next year, but 5 out of 8 years he played with the Swallows, they were below .500 and were last place teams 3 times. He’s used to bad baseball.
Our team sucked in Japan too isn’t the inspiration they think it is…
I needed a good laugh. And a day before April Fool’s, too.
I am not sure how much it makes me feel better that Swallows fans also watch bad baseball. Regardless of their understanding of bad baseball, it still sucks as much to watch pitchers give up 3 walks in an inning, Benintendi butcher left field, and hear John Schriffen talk about the hand adjustment Miguel Vargas made on April 23, 2025 for the umpteenth time.
However, it is good to know that Murakami fans in Japan aren’t going to turn away from supporting Mune and not watch at all. And that their possible transition into Sox fans might be an easier thing to tolerate lol.
I love Japan
Poor guy went from the bad team from Tokyo to the bad team from Chicago.
Though the Swallows did win it all recently I think.
I chose my NPB team as the swallows because I like yakult. I must just have a thing for underdogs that murakami will at some point play for.
I found this genuinely uplifting yesterday and concluded we could probably learn something from Swallows fans about grace. This morning I saw a story about how they’ve just now reintroduced their beloved mascot after a mourning period of almost 500 days for the original man who had inhabited the costume since 1994. Trying to imagine some MLB team or its fans paying that kind of tribute to a team employee whose face most people never saw. See https://x.com/SwallowsEN/status/2038952044963230201?s=20 or https://www.youtube.com/@tsubamentien for video of the originator’s act.
Forged in the flames of bad ownership. We stand together.
I can’t wait to meet some Japanese fans at the ballpark this year!
Maybe not a bad perspective. Sincere player fandom might seem cheesy and unwelcome by American tastes but I think it’s one way to find a silver lining when your team is bad.
Uhhh I ain’t fuckin holding any other dude’s hand lol. Especially not while watching this team.
Please please tell me less doomers in Japan than here in the US. WAYYYYYYYYYY too many doomers.
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Bad baseball is one thing.. but have they heard of Jerry Reinsdorf?
[Original source, for those interested. ](https://x.com/barstoolchicago/status/2038728430204719128?s=20)
(Not a fan of Barstool, just giving credit where it’s due).
He’s had high highs with the Swallows. Won a chip, appeared in the Japan finals the next year, but 5 out of 8 years he played with the Swallows, they were below .500 and were last place teams 3 times. He’s used to bad baseball.
Our team sucked in Japan too isn’t the inspiration they think it is…
I needed a good laugh. And a day before April Fool’s, too.
I am not sure how much it makes me feel better that Swallows fans also watch bad baseball. Regardless of their understanding of bad baseball, it still sucks as much to watch pitchers give up 3 walks in an inning, Benintendi butcher left field, and hear John Schriffen talk about the hand adjustment Miguel Vargas made on April 23, 2025 for the umpteenth time.
However, it is good to know that Murakami fans in Japan aren’t going to turn away from supporting Mune and not watch at all. And that their possible transition into Sox fans might be an easier thing to tolerate lol.
I love Japan
Poor guy went from the bad team from Tokyo to the bad team from Chicago.
Though the Swallows did win it all recently I think.
I chose my NPB team as the swallows because I like yakult. I must just have a thing for underdogs that murakami will at some point play for.
I found this genuinely uplifting yesterday and concluded we could probably learn something from Swallows fans about grace. This morning I saw a story about how they’ve just now reintroduced their beloved mascot after a mourning period of almost 500 days for the original man who had inhabited the costume since 1994. Trying to imagine some MLB team or its fans paying that kind of tribute to a team employee whose face most people never saw. See https://x.com/SwallowsEN/status/2038952044963230201?s=20 or https://www.youtube.com/@tsubamentien for video of the originator’s act.
Forged in the flames of bad ownership. We stand together.
I can’t wait to meet some Japanese fans at the ballpark this year!
Maybe not a bad perspective. Sincere player fandom might seem cheesy and unwelcome by American tastes but I think it’s one way to find a silver lining when your team is bad.
Uhhh I ain’t fuckin holding any other dude’s hand lol. Especially not while watching this team.
Please please tell me less doomers in Japan than here in the US. WAYYYYYYYYYY too many doomers.
Love reading the Japanese fans’ comments on posts