5：Japanese Pro Baseball League
However, comparing to the 90', Japanese pro baseball doesn't have much popularity nowadays. The reason can be that star players, like Ichiro, playing in the Seattle Mariners, tend to go American "Major" leagues to challenge their own ability, or be a better player. Such that, Japanese baseball teams don't have many star players as before. Or the reason can be that soccer, which didn't have pro league until the low 90', became popular sports as baseball in Japan. Before the soccer league had started, baseball was only sports that particularly appeared in the newspapers. However, soccer league has grown rapidly, and Japan could be the site of World Cup 2004 with Korea. It can be said that the vogue of the baseball is replaced by the soccer. Baseball leagues have become out of favor, and they have a problem of reforming baseball league structure to get back the popularity.
Although this is the time to think about how to make baseball league better again, some owners only think about their benefit. Japanese baseball league is consists of two leagues, central and pacific, and each league is met by 6 teams. Today, one team in the pacific league revealed that they can't keep the team because of lots of deficit. If 1 team drop out from a league, the league will have difficulty to keep the games because if playing the league by 5 teams, one of them cannot play the game. The team, which can be disappear within this year, has really lots of deficits, 2 hundred million in dollar, I guess, such that it's difficult to help the team to revive. Besides, owners of the other teams don't allow other company to participate the baseball league. For instance, a company tried to buy that team to continue the 6 team league, but one of the other team owner, who is known as "boss" of baseball league, didn't agree with that proposal. This decision was appeared from his aim to unify the 2 leagues. He thought that 1 league system will be beneficial to him since he is the owner of the most famous baseball team and he can earn money by broadcasting right of his team. The owners of other teams in another league agreed with him because they also could be able to get benefit by matching with the famous team.
I don't think their decision is right. If baseball become 1 league played by more than 6 team, it will be dull. Who wants to see the match of the last placed team and booby one? Also, if 2 leagues are unified, all-star match won't be played, or even if it is played, it won't be precious since all players are in the same league and people can see their match everyday. Besides, they decided to unify the leagues without asking the players and baseball fans. Since the baseball league cannot work without players, they should have asked players' opinions. Additionally, they also should asked the fans about their thought since fans have aroused the pro baseball leagues. If owners' idea become true, there's no future on Japanese pro baseball league.
4：Experiences in last summer #2
After returning to Japan last summer, I decided to get a part-time job to make my vacation beneficial to me. I checked the classified advertisements to get the job, but I couldn't get it twice. I wrote about consideration that I could not be hired in journal #3 at first time, and for the similar reason, I could not get the job again. I was seeking the job which does not require much skills, pays me a lot, and matches to my time schedule. However, these terms were tough for companies to hire me, and I noticed that I was selfish to request such a terms since it was first time for me to get a job and I hadn't have any job-experience before. Then I changed my thought toward the terms, particularly, I cut the demands "not needing simple skill" and "matching to my time schedule" from my terms. Afterwards, I rechecked the classified ad and sought the well-paid job. After finding the one meeting with my demand, I accessed to the company. Then I had an interview with a staff with other applicants, and I was asked to work. This is true. Although I asked to be hired, the staff asked me to work for his company at the last of the interview. I was really happy since that was third time I tried to get a job, and my wish became true at last.
My work started from 11:00 pm to 8:00 am, and business content was a kind of physical labor. This was the reason that the job paid me well and the staff asked me to do it, I guess. Working place is about 5km away from my home, and there was not even in my city. I needed to go there by car, but I didn't have one, and even I didn't have car licence. Then I asked one of my coworker to drive, and he understood it since he also drove other coworkers. Due to the fact that working place was far from home, going there with 2 to 4 coworkers, and workers needed to be taken attendance before 11:00, I needed to leave home before 10:00. Also, I could go back to home after 9:00 because of these reasons.
Task was really hard enough to make some spots on my feet or arms everyday because I needed to carry around the heavy and lots of things. I have a good stories that illustrates how hard it was. Because of the hardness, one of my coworker didn't come back after a break. He didn't came there after that day since other coworkers wouldn't think he depressed their motivation toward the job by escaping it. Another coworker, he was known as peaceful man, hit the other since while he worked very hard, other didn't do his own job. I was really surprised since I never thought he would hit other. I know that taking action against him by force was not proper, but I can understand because it was over 4:00 am, the time everybody felt tired. If I'm writing the paper which can change my grade B to A, and due tomorrow, I'll do my best work on it. However, if someone bother me all the time in that situation, I'll hate him or her. Likewise, everyone would hit him in that situation, and I also would.
What I learned from this job experience is that cooperation is really important. That is, taking care of each other, i.e. do not think only about oneself. If someone is selfish, it will make others disgusting. And disgusting doesn't make anything beneficial to us. On the contrary, cooperation will make us ease, and everything can progress. Therefore, cooperation is necessary to get along.
ザ・サード
やべえルパンが始まった。
まさかルパンをやる日が来るとは。
絵から見るに第一期かなぁ。どれがどれだっけ。
ルパンのジャケットが赤くて、次元の鼻がピノキオ気味のやつです。
タイトルで判断しようと思ったんだけど、
どうやらこっちで放送するにあたり勝手にアレンジしているみたいで。
知ってる回だったらすぐにどれだかわかるんだけど。
一服しに抜けるのが躊躇われるけれど、喉が渇いたので行って来る。
もう終わりかけだけど
どうして神父の銃、と言うか十字架をバッシュが持っているの？
神父はひょっとして、既にお亡くなりですか？
次回予告が少し気になったのです。
さっき見てたののサブタイトルは"sin"、日本放送時もこのまま、もしくは"罪"でしょうかね。サックスの人と右肩が凄い人が出てきて、お亡くなりになっていきました。これが何話目なのかわかりませんが、話の内容的には確実に後半。全くもって繋ぎの回では無い。バッシュが大変だったもの。いや大変と言うか何と言うか。でも、面白かった。R.O.Dと時間が被ってたんだけど、トライガンを選んでよかった。
トライガンはさっき終わりまして、カートゥーンネットワークでは続いてビッグオーが始まりました。これよく知らん。G4TVでは午前3時からR.O.Dが2本やってて、2本目が始まったのです。見始めたのですが、「ぬぬぬ先生」の回なのよ。要するに1話目なのですよ。と言う事は、1本目にやってたのは最終回だったのかな。トライガンのエンディング時にチャンネル回してたらそんな感じだったけど。最終回の後に1話ってのはどうなんですかね。
あ、下の「冬ブヨが～」ってのは、カートゥーンネットワークでやっている「Adult Swim」というアニメのコーナーのキャッチフレーズ（？）です。日本語読めるのかしらねみなさん。このコーナー内で、攻殻やらトライガンやらやってます。古いミルクちゃんがやってた事もあった。ビバップもやってた気がする。他には、こっち産の多少黒めのコメディアニメだったり。
そういえば、サウスパークを見たことが無いのですが。どういうことかこれは。どこの局でやってるんだろう。あれだけ話題なんだから、デカイ局なんだろうか。
R.O.D-the TV- の「アニタ」、他のキャラが彼女の名前を呼んでいるのを聞くと、どうにも「アニータ」としか聞こえません。
そして運ばれてくるチリ人妻。
終わり。
*追記しちゃうよ*
紙使い＝paper master
のようです。それだけなんですが。
なんか凄くアニヲタっぽいかもしれない。
面白い物が好きなだけなの。そういう言い訳。
ものすごく２の意味
なんとなく買ってみたファンタイチゴ味。スイカバーの味がします。
泣きそうです。懐かしくてじゃなく、美味しくなくて。
冬ブヨがうじゃうじゃ周りにいるよ！
それでは「適当」について。
周知の事ではありますが、適当には2つ意味があります。1つは「ふさわしい」、2つ目は「なぁなぁ」。意訳と言うか、僕の中で意味を簡略化したもので申し訳無いですが。余談ですが僕がはじめて知った意味は後者。
「いいかげん」という言葉も「適当」と同じく多義で、意味も適当と似ていますが、いざ「いいかげん」と言ってみると「好い加減」ではなくて「つまらないもの」と捉えられる事が多いと思うので、可哀想なこの言葉はあまり使わない。「いいかげんにしたら」と言う時、「もうやめて」と言う意味に捉えられがちだし、使う側としても「ちょうどよく」を伝えるためには使った事が無い。「適当」という言葉にもこの傾向は見られるが、「ちょうどよく」よりもキツクない。当たり障りが無いのだ。
ここから、
1=ふさわしい
2=なぁなぁ
を適用します。
使う側としての「適当」
「適当に」と誰かに言う時。相手がどういう状況であるとしても、冷たいようだが、僕には関係の無い事だ。「僕にはそんなのどうでもいいよ」という意味を含め、2の「なぁなぁ」的にこの言葉を使う。と同時に、相手に向けたエールとしてもこの言葉を使う。その場合、「自分で満足できるまでやってみな」という1を含めた意味、「でもあんまり無理しないように」という2をふまえたもの、両方を使う。
すいませんすごいわがままですがココで止めます。
トライガン見てるのよ、そっちに集中しちゃってさ。
後ね、「適当」と使わずに「適当」について書くのは結構大変ですね。おかげで意味のわからない文章になってるし。いや、意味が分からないのはいつものことだけど、いつも以上に奇怪なものになっているな、と。
今週土曜にサムライチャンプルーをやるらしい。ちょっと見たい。監督がビバップの人、渡辺信一郎のようだし。
もうホントなぁなぁでスマンね。
終わり。