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The story
On September 20, GAORA SPORTS aired a live broadcast of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters vs. Orix Buffaloes game (Escon Field) starting at 1:30 PM, featuring the Hello! Project idol group Tsubaki Factory, who threw out the ceremonial first pitch and performed a special live show after the game. Over on 5ch’s Hello! Project board, a live-commentary thread went up before the broadcast even started, buzzing with fan-focused chatter — comparing GAORA and DAZN subscriptions and camera angles, reports of people scrambling to add the channel just in time, and members’ names being matched up with players’ jersey numbers — more than talk about the actual game itself.
What people said
Color commentary: Makoto Kaneko / Play-by-play: Yuhei Doi / Visitor booth (secondary audio): T-Okada, Chiki Chiki Johnny Ishihara
▽ 9.20 Escon Field
https://www.gaora.co.jp/fighters/4280470
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham vs. Orix (9.20 Escon Field)
Sunday, September 20 1:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Rerun
Sunday, September 20 6:30 PM – 11:00 PM
Don't you lose, Doipu! (nickname for a member/mascot)
P Kohei Arihara
1 (LF) Kengo Yoshida
2 (SS) Tatsuki Mizuno
3 (DH) Shishi Shibata
4 (CF) Yuki Nomura
5 (RF) Nakamasa Manami
6 (1B) Kotaro Kiyomiya
7 (3B) Ruia Otsuka
8 (C) Yuya Shindo
9 (2B) Taiki Narama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na7ZXDcOVZ0
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Wonder if anyone else is showing up too?
13:45 – First pitch: Yasumi Tanimoto
Bottom of the 3rd: Fox Dance
30 min after the game ends: Special live show, Tsubaki Factory
Tsubaki Factory's solo appearance in "AFTER GAME" 【Escon Field Hokkaido, September 20】
https://kizuna.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/morningcoffee/1789764435/
Ono's is 324?
Why though?
Isn't it 325?
3 = "mi"
2 = "tsū"
4 = "fō"
probably (spelling something out with number readings)
"Mizu-fō" lol? What's wrong with 325?
Guess they just didn't want to be stuck wearing "Saniko" lol (a pun spelled out from the digits 3-2-5)
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Background and key points of this discussion
GAORA SPORTS is a CS specialty channel that broadcasts all of the Nippon-Ham Fighters’ home games live year-round, and since its camera angles differ from DAZN’s, plenty of fans subscribe to both. The naming rights to Escon Field are held by the es-con group, so the claim made in the thread that “Chubu Electric Power is the operating entity” appears to be inaccurate. This isn’t the first time a Hello! Project idol group has appeared for a ceremonial first pitch or live show at the stadium, and the thread also saw some back-and-forth comparing this appearance to past ones. Exchanges decoding jersey numbers as wordplay were typical of this kind of live-commentary thread, where fans care less about the game’s outcome and more about “who’s going to show up on camera and how” — there was almost no discussion of the actual score or progress of the game.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “■ Tsubaki Factory ■ GAORA SPORTS “[Live] GAORA Pro Baseball Broadcast: Hokkaido Nippon-Ham vs. Orix (9.20)” ■ 13:30–18:30 ■.”
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