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The story
On 5ch’s pro baseball live-commentary board, a thread following the Yomiuri Giants’ uphill battle against the Hanshin Tigers blew up. Every pitching change brought worried talk of a “retaliation beanball,” and when a Giants player took a pitch to the wrist and it swelled up badly, posters piled on with fracture speculation. Beyond the game itself, posters weighed in on the interim coaching staff standing in for the regular manager, mixed with lingering frustration at the former manager blamed for building a lineup that can’t hit — making this a thread that got more heated over strategy than over the actual score.
What people said
I thought there was no thread yet so I made one…
Apparently it's a rare glitch: a thread gets created and stays live,
but doesn't show up in the board's thread list.
Ohshiro: "Nuwaaa!!"
Oh right, he was his senpai back in high school.
No problem, it's just farm-team (2-gun) batters up there.
Honestly, go ahead and hit them — they can't get on base otherwise.
It's nothing but scrubs, nobody worth worrying about getting plunked.
Let's come back and win this.
Doris 😍 Iwasaki 😍
Did he get hit with a bat or something?
That's fracture-level swelling…
Then I wish we hadn't given up those 3 runs in the first place…
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2094002029295550464/vid/avc1/1280×720/qMyb-K2OD_H6akNe.mp4
Wait, hit by his own teammate? Lol
Doesn't even look like it hit him though…
Watching it again, he already looks like he's in pain before this.
Last time, at Koshien (top of the 9th).
Oh, is that right…
I made the thread — hope that was okay?
Well, seems like it worked out fine.
Sweat the small stuff and you'll end up bald like me.
Way too many mysteries here, why now of all times.
Just fixed it a moment ago with the restore command.
Oh, it's true lol
Guess that's the next thread?
Abe's been a Tigers mole the whole time — he's spent years since his farm-team manager days building a team specifically designed to lose to them!
Hashigami's throwing the game on purpose too.
https://n.picvr.net/2608302034039448.jpg
Lmaooo, 24-Hour Embezzlement TV
No point in machine-gunning through relievers at this stage.
Hm, did that touch a nerve?
Well, the previous manager built a team that just can't hit, so…
Background and Key Talking Points
In this game, the Giants found themselves on the back foot against the Hanshin Tigers, and when a Giants player took a hit-by-pitch and his wrist swelled up noticeably, worried chatter about a possible fracture spread through the thread. It’s worth noting that at this stage, any fracture diagnosis was purely speculation from posters looking at the video and photos shared in the thread — not an official statement from the team or a medical source. Also, as the thread title’s “acting manager” implies, the Giants have continued to operate without their regular manager at the helm, and posters mixed praise and criticism for the coach filling in with frustration directed at the previous manager blamed for building the team’s struggling lineup. On top of that, 5ch occasionally has a rare quirk where a thread that’s properly up and running fails to appear in the board’s thread list, and that glitch became a topic of conversation here too. More than the final score, it was the debate over strategy and player use that really got this thread going.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Hello!Pro board) thread “Giants Acting Manager Thread 120.”
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