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In the 179th installment of 5ch’s “Acting Giants Manager” thread, Giants fans riffed on Hanshin’s slump while the conversation ranged across pro baseball at large — reactions to news of Nippon-Ham’s coaching staff changes and Hiroshima’s hardline contract stance, predictions for next season’s rising stars and free-agent moves, and the ongoing debate over whether the Climax Series format should even exist. Midway through, the thread turned nostalgic, recalling how the year after the Giants’ 2002 pennant, manager Hara Tatsunori clashed with the team’s general manager and stepped down, followed by a slump under his successor Horiuchi Tsuneo — making the thread as much a trip through team history as a round of trash talk.
What people said
There's still Dalbec and Cabbage though
Hanshin's bottom order is just row after row of Kadowaki-level bats (Kadowaki Seiya, a Giants utility infielder known more for glove than bat)
There might actually be a Kadowaki-for-Motoyama trade — Motoyama might've pulled some kind of blunder
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/6d74316998f7a56973163bebb276bdb5e0a65c9b
Whoa… that's kind of a turn-off, this guy
Why'd he switch teams? Money?
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/bdd5fbc89f9e60c7af330c094ed30416e6ffc144
This is an even worse, more toxic culture than you'd see out of a cash-strapped team
We'd better get serious and welcome Tokoda, Morishita, and Sakakura into our army
No joke: you can't land all three — 'Yukata' (nickname for Tokoda), the Morishita who isn't the Hanshin one, and Sakakura — all at once
Two's the max you're getting
Which outcome do you think actually gets us a higher-quality Japan Series?
Obviously whichever team finished first in the league
The CS draws good crowds, so there's no reason to axe it
Basically I think the first-place team should be the one to go
but Hanshin's so weak right now they couldn't even complain about losing their Japan Series spot
A 'broad agreement' can get overturned as many times as you like
Guess you've made peace with it huh lol
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/874cd0c58dff15dd0f8ff6c8142a10a7f161a2e0
Next season our army's lineup: 1. Hirayama, 2. Urata lol
I mean, it hasn't even started yet though
There are no games with Japanese players in them
Apparently it's been called off
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Man, the sense of loss back then was brutal — it carried over even once the season started
Hara got into a huge fight with the team's general manager back then and got pushed out of the manager's seat after just two seasons
And then his successor, 'Lord' Horiuchi, tore the team apart even worse
Yeah, that happened
There was this veteran pitcher, Kudo Kimiyasu, who — just as you'd expect — kept whining about this hurting and that hurting, and never actually pitched when it mattered
You don't wanna see a 36–0 blowout happen?? lmaooo
This season vs Hanshin:
4 games
0-3, 6.74 ERA
That's a brutal matchup, isn't it
Can Azuma even start against them
From Morishita's perspective, Azuma's probably the easiest guy to hit
He's tough on our army since we're all slap-hitters, but his stuff is light, so can the Tigers ('Chin,' a mocking nickname rival fans use) actually beat him?
Zero yen's fine, right?
I put in 1000 yen myself
I prepared exactly 33-4 yen
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The term “Chin” used in the thread is an old derisive nickname Giants fans use for the Hanshin Tigers — a fixture of 5ch’s baseball board, and distinct from an attack on any specific person. The debate over the Climax Series keeps coming up because the current format, under which the pennant winner isn’t guaranteed a Japan Series berth, reignites the same argument every year around this time. The reminiscing about the 2002 Giants is grounded in actual team history: the year after that title, manager Hara Tatsunori stepped down following a clash with the team’s general manager, and the club slumped under his successor, Horiuchi Tsuneo. The posts about Hiroshima’s front-office contract stance and Nippon-Ham’s coaching appointments are lifted directly from news articles quoted within the thread, not speculation from thread regulars — a distinction readers could easily miss. Overall, the thread mixes team-bashing, reactions to real news, and nostalgic looks back at team history.
※This article was compiled as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch thread (posted, oddly, on the Hello! Project idol board) “Acting Giants Manager 179.”
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