Ah - Baseball in Japan! Yakyu, they call it. The game is exciting, fast paced, beautiful. TV coverage of Yakyu here is beautiful. Radio coverage, also.
MLB coverage, not so much.
I watch Japanese TV coverage of the MLB. They show highlights from all of the teams that have Japanese players.
Only the teams with Japanese players.
And footage only of the Japanese players.
It shows their at bats, their fielding, their responses to getting a hit, etc. The at bats are shown from every angle, again and again and again...
So it looks like teams have 9 identical septuplets coming up to bat while at the same time doing all of the defensive work and/or pitching. Occasionally, if something awesome happens the same game that does not involve the septuplets, they will show it.
Johan Santana has a one hitter against the White Sox? Awesome! But much more importantly, Tadahito Iguchi is playing 2nd and doing all of the batting for Chicago!
In all fairness, the coverage here in Japan of the North American MLB is a million times better than the North American coverage of Yakyu.
Just miss my MLB baseball, is all.
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It really is too bad that there isn't more international coverage of sports. I know during the Olympics they'll show hours and hours of stuff on American athletes, even when they are blowing it, and hardly anything of any of the foreign athletes, even the winners.
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