Photopost: Marines vs. Swallows @ Jingu - The New Ogino

Photos are at the bottom, but here's a teaser:(Yuki Karakawa is legally an adult, but he still looks like Harry Potter when he laughs.)This is the 1000th post to this blog. How weird is that?Anyway, today I finally went to a baseball game! Hooray! Despite the snow in Tokyo last night, the forecast for today said it'd be sunny and go up to around 16 degrees C. It only half-lied: it did get sunny today for quite a bit, but the temperature barely hit 9 if that, so I was freezing at Jingu. So was everyone else, though.I got to Jingu around 12:30pm, went in, found a seat in the front row behind the camera well on the Marines side, got out my camera, and went nuts. Karakawa-kun was starting for Lotte, so I went to watch him warm up, and ran into one of my friends who's both a Meiji alum (he played football for them like 50 years ago) and a Kamagaya geezer. So he ended up sitting with me for most of the game. Bizarrely, I also ran into two women I know from Kamagaya as ...