Showing posts with label WBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WBC. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Somewhere in the TBS studios...

Sometime this month, somewhere in the TBS Studios

TBS Producer (TP): Right. We need a song for our WBC commercials. Something that will get the audience pumped up for the games.

Staff Guy (SG): No problem boss. But our budget is kind of tight. The higher-ups said we can only use songs from these two CDs.

TP: *Sigh* Alright. Well, what have we got?

SG: Here -




*Both look at Edward Furlong album*

Both: Nah.

TP: OK, well that leaves us with Journey. Let's go track by track and..you know what? We're running out of time. Just put a song on at random.

*SG puts on random. CD goes to track nine.*

TP: WOW! That's great! That goes perfectly with what we want! That's the kind of thing that gets the audience to their feet and rocking! Yeah! What's the name of the song Staff Guy?

SG: Umm. Let's see. It says here "Separate Ways" on the jacket.

TP: That's a great title! It can refer to the rift between Korea and Japan especially! Ever since *Insert random controversial viewpoint about Japan/Korea relations* they've gone their "separate ways". Great! Put it in!

SG: You're the boss.

http://www.tbs.co.jp/sports/wbc09/


...

A month goes by.

...

TP: Hey, mail. It's a youtube link from Staff Guy! It says.."Boss, maybe you should see this." I wonder what it is? *Click*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxxOyGK1pMk

TP: Well, crap.






I kid. I loved that album when I was young.

Japan wins 2009 WBC in 10 innings, 5-3

In a victory sure to irritate lots of people all over the world, Japan beat Korea 5-3 in ten innings to defend their World Baseball Classic crown.

Ichiro basically erased his bad hitting prior to today's final by going 4-6 and driving in the winning runs with two outs in the top of the 10th inning.

Japan hammered out 15 hits to Korea's 5 and left the bases loaded several times, stranding 6 runners in scoring position.

Yuu Darvish got the win while Chang Yong Lim got the loss, making him the goat for Korea (I was only following the gamecast on ESPN but it sure looked like he lost either control or composure in the 10th) but ironically making him a friend to all his teammates on the Yakult Swallows.




For the record, this means that Japan won their overall series 3497 - 3496

Monday, March 23, 2009

Korea and Japan to meet for the 6,993rd time in 2009 WBC

Japan beats the USA 9-4 to finalize the match-up that everyone around the world has already seen 6992 times already in the month of March.

Japan and Korea are currently tied at 3496 - 3496 in the 2009 tournament.







By the way, for those watching in Japan, have they been using Separate Ways as the highlight song all the time? Because they did today and that's just awesome.

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