Carpdate
I see the mighty Carp are toying with the rest of the league again, slyly lulling the other teams into a false sense of security with a deceptive .439 winning percentage. Still handily outpacing the fucking BayStars, naturally.
As usual, the official Carp website is largely impenetrable, even translated. However, it appears that they have begun playing in their new home, Madza Zoom-Zoom Stadium. I wish I was making this up.
.: Tags: baseball, carp, japan :.
May 27th, 2009 at 5:32 am
Still handily outpacing the fucking BayStars, naturally.
Hahahahahahahahahahaaaa!!!!!
I dunno about your misgivings about the stadium name, though. It’s Japan, for goodness sake. Think about how sick, twisted or just plain strange the name could have been. Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium – heck, Hiroshima got off lightly on that one.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
The Japanese seem to swing between extremely mundane and boring names (“Hiroshima Municipal Stadium”, “Kyoto Baseball Sports Facility”, “Tokyo Spectator Event Building”) and the truly inane (“Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium”, “Animated Tentacle Porn Arena Great Entertainments”, “BayStars House of Unending Shame, Ancestral Grieving, and Ritual Seppaku”).
May 27th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
The Jays could use a little of that Carp Zoom-Zoom. They just lost their 9th in a row, blowing a 5 run lead in the 8th followed by blowing a 2 run lead in the 11th.
May 27th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
The Blue Jays, collectively, are not worthy to carry the filthiest, most threadbare jockstrap of the Carp’s bullpen catcher.
May 28th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Hey Sporko – you really didn’t think the Toronto Fabulous Blue Jays were going to play .675 ball all year long, did you?
That’s the thing about the Jays, though – when things get bad, they get really bad.