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The story
This is a 5ch live-thread about the Giants–Swallows game played at Jingu Stadium on October 2. The thread title is “Giants Acting Manager 161,” the 161st installment in an ongoing series. With the Giants’ lineup struggling at the plate, commenters who appeared to be Swallows fans fired off harsh lines like “They just can’t hit” and “Did they even practice?” The game also carried weight for the Central League pennant race — midway through the thread someone posted an image of the title-race standings, and there was buzz over Swallows starter Nakagawa being described as pitching not to win, but simply to avoid becoming the game’s “scapegoat.”
What people said
Giants Acting Manager 160
Starting Lineups
【Giants】 【Swallows】
9 Hirayama 6 Nagaoka
8 Matsumoto 8 Iwata
6 Izumiguchi 9 Masuda
2 Oshiro 3 Yamada
5 Richard 7 Nishimura
4 Yoshikawa 4 Tanaka
3 Masuda Riku 5 Matsushita
7 Sasahara 2 Suzuki Kanau
1 Yamazaki 1 Yamano
Did you guys even show up to practice?
A draw today is basically a loss.
they're actually trying for once.
Not a word about breaking down their pitcher.
He's seriously not thinking about anything.
If they can't shut this down, Nakagawa becomes the scapegoat.
Nakagawa's grinding it out just so he doesn't become the scapegoat.
Hurry up and lose already! Then our team's magic number hits 1 lol
no wonder they're walking Maru then.
Then what chant DO you like?
So what WOULD be good, then?
Guess it's "Go Get the Win" since we're in the late innings
Drop dead, Yomiuri — c'mon, let's go, let's go!
That's why we drew again yesterday and the magic number barely moved.
Tough luck, huh.
Just take some Daikenchuto (a herbal remedy for bowel issues).
Background and Talking Points
The thread title “Giants Acting Manager 161” is the name of a running series of live-threads numbered sequentially, with the name apparently reflecting whoever was in charge of the Giants’ dugout at the time of posting. In the Central League pennant race, whether the first-place team wins or draws changes how fast the “magic number” ticks down, so for teams below first place, the leader’s result matters just as much as their own. Terms like “Kyojin-kasu” and “Chin-kasu” (mocking nicknames aimed at Giants and Chunichi fans, respectively) fly around in the thread — these are stock insults long used in 5ch/2ch baseball live-threads to needle rival teams’ fans, and are different in nature from discriminatory language aimed at protected groups. The phrase “our team” (waga-gun) is live-thread shorthand for whichever team the poster is rooting for, and context suggests these posters were backing the Swallows. Both the frustration over the Giants’ lineup going cold and the description of Swallows starter Nakagawa as pitching “not to win, but to avoid being the scapegoat” reflect how commenters were thinking less about this single game and more about the long haul of the pennant race.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Giants Acting Manager 161.”
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