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At the Super Round of the BFA U18 Asian Championship being held at the Taipei Dome, Korea’s team erupted in wild celebration after hitting a home run in the fourth inning that closed the gap to just one run against Japan. It’s been reported that Zenyu Ogura, a legendary figure in Japanese high school baseball who was serving as commentator for the Virtual Koshien broadcast, criticized the celebration. On 5ch, opinions first split over how to read this — was the criticism aimed at the players celebrating the home run itself, or at what looked like a provocative attitude toward the Japanese dugout? Reactions were further divided after users checked the video themselves: some said the Korean players’ behavior “just looks like normal celebrating,” while others felt it was genuinely “intimidating.”
Japan’s Samurai Japan high school national team is currently competing in the 14th BFA U18 Asian Championship, held in Taipei, Taiwan. On the 11th, Super Round Game 1 against Korea took place at the Taipei Dome. During the Japanese broadcast, a legendary figure in high school baseball criticized the Korean team’s manners.
In the game, Japan took a 2-0 lead in the first inning, aided by Korean fielding errors. In the top of the fourth, with two outs, Korea’s cleanup hitter Lee Ho-min blasted a massive solo home run to left field off pitcher Masahiro Sugimoto (Chiben Gakuen High School), cutting the deficit to one run.
After rounding the bases, Lee Ho-min returned to a jubilant Korean dugout. The players rushed out in front of the dugout, shouting loudly in a way that seemed intended to intimidate the Japanese team. It was this moment that drew criticism from Zenyu Ogura, who was providing commentary for the live Virtual Koshien broadcast.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
went and lost to a team like Korea
What is this, an uninvited etiquette lecturer?
Who does this guy think he is?
If he wants to talk about manners, he should look at the arrogance of forcing his own standards on other people first
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2098333192743006208/vid/avc1/1404×720/UQoKZEDmqRlsqJR0.mp4
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2098320073803042816/vid/avc1/1280×720/MPuKY5-mQJAUfhSL.mp4
Just go jerk each other off over your own rules back home
He's saying "cut out the intimidating behavior,"
but the headline alone reads like "don't celebrate home runs"
Ah, if they actually did something directed at the Japanese dugout, that changes things
The women look like they're just having fun, but the men's side is seriously creepy, like some kind of army
Oh, so it's a commentator criticizing the intimidating attitude, not a manager
Got fooled by the thread title
> cleanup hitter Lee Ho-min
I misread that as "Hoimin" (the healing spell from Dragon Quest)
That's awfully presumptuous, don't you think
And if you'd won, maybe, but saying this after losing just reads as sour grapes
Which itself goes against Japanese manners
"The loser doesn't get to say anything"
sounds more like a Korean custom than a Japanese one, no?
In Japan the norm is basically no-side (no hard feelings once the match is over)
Did they actually do anything intimidating though?
This idea of "being considerate of others" feels a bit twisted
When you're happy you should celebrate all out, and the losing side should congratulate the winners too
The title's misleading
He's not saying don't celebrate the home run — he's saying stop the provocation aimed at the Japanese dugout
Thought "that can't be right" and checked the video myself, but it just looks like normal celebrating to me
Calling this "intimidation" seems like a stretch
https://youtu.be/w_bbE_hyOaw?t=1253
Yeah, that's just young guys celebrating normally
Background and Key Points of This Story
The BFA U18 Asian Championship is currently underway in Taipei, Taiwan, with Japan and Korea both fighting for a top finish in the Super Round that includes this game. Zenyu Ogura, who raised the criticism, is a legendary figure in high school baseball who led Nihon University Third High School to a national championship at Koshien; this time, he wasn’t speaking as a team manager but as a commentator for the live Virtual Koshien broadcast. On the thread, his comments were initially misread as coming from “the manager,” which sent the discussion off track — it’s easy to overlook that these were really just the personal impressions of a commentator watching the game. There’s also the matter of the article describing the behavior as “intimidating”: among viewers who watched the same footage, some felt it “just looks like celebrating” while others saw it as “provocation aimed at the opposing dugout” — a reminder that text alone makes it hard to judge what was actually going on.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment & Sports News+) thread “[Baseball] U18 Asian Championship: Korea Erupts in Joy Over Home Run, “They Need to Learn Some Japanese Manners” — Legendary High School Baseball Figure Quietly Speaks Out.”
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