Mina-san, have you been to a baseball game lately?

waterman-san, thanks for the kind words and glad you enjoyed it This is the first of a multi-part series, so there’s plenty more to come in the near future

I really liked this video so over to reading the pdf

Thanks for the video, enjoyed it alot! I was just at Safeco field for a Mariners game last week (It was Ichiro Bobble head night, yeah!) but sadly we lost to the A’s. I’ll be sure to stop by Marine Stadium sometime in the future!

Great job Sukura and the japanesepod101 crew. Great intro, great video. I am looking forward to more of the baseball game. I makes me want to come to a game. Hope to see more video of other parts of Japan.

awesome !

nicely done by Sakura

Great job. I enjoyed the video.
I look forward to seeing more of the journey around Japan series with Sakuraさん.

Mina-san, ありがとうございます！ 　
Sakura、ありがとうございます！
Chiba Lotte Marines、ありがとうございます！

Thank you again for everyone who made this possible! Since this video, we’ve been to Marine Stadium twice to see the Marines play, and I can’t say enough about the Marine’s organization, first rate across the board.

On a quick personnel note, can you believe this is the first time Sakura has done this? Is she a natural, or what? Ganbatte, Sakura!

Sakura-san - - Awesome job!
And, Bobby Valentine — what a charmer!!
I hope the Marines can move out of 4th place, though!

mina-san, there’s more around the corner! glad everyone enjoyed the first installment!

the next time we go to a game, we hope EVEN MORE listeners will come out! (i think we dominated the stand deck last time!) even if you don’t watch baseball, you’ll have a good time!
ain’t nuthin’ but a party, ya’ll! awww yeah!

ありがとうございました！
素晴らしいビデオでした。さくらさんは絶対にジャパニーズポッドのエースですね。

I think Peter may have trouble holding onto Sakura san now. This has opened up a whole new career choice for her.
I am really looking forward to more ジャパニーズポッドの作品

am not a big fan of baseball but that was great, waiting for the next one!!

Japanesepod101.com, great video, more power, more videos

Sakura-san.. awesome perfomance

Marky-san.. 羨ましいですね　thats a feat dominating the left stand field by janesepod101, next time i hope i can join..

Cool video. I understood maybe 40% since there was a lot of vocabulary I didn’t know, so I’ll be sure to check out the PDF

Sakura did really well. After saying she was nervous in that news lesson, it didn’t really show; she carried herself as well as some of the news reporters I’ve seen, but with more enthusiasm and character

Definitely looking forward to the next instalment

A video is better than a thansand words. Great job!

Sakura is such a superstar, it is ridiculous.

And the only thing better than baseball is baseball introduced by jpod101.

YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Kare-san,
I think it’s because the corporate owners of the Chiba Lotte Marines is the Lotte Candy Company?

Someone else want to explain?

Hi Liz21.
I figured there was something of the like going on, but I still don’t get why I get market placement (which is mainly pointless, because I won’t get my hands on these gums anytime soon) in an educational language learning podcast.
If it is a a kind of one-brandname-for-all-products I could understand that, but I kinda doubt it. (Like, a umbrella term you can use for all gums)

I know it was humorous with a wink at the site.

Or maybe it is just my cultural background:
if they sponser something, they should be in the credits; if you want to do them a favour mention it once, not introduce it as a running gag. Around here this could get you into real trouble… at least in the long run. (Some cooking shows recently had problems with surreptitious advertising, that could be why it’s on my mind…)

The product placement is a little bold ^^
I was also a little surprised they actually own the team. Normally companies just buy the name of a team or a stadion. But i found that the Lotte Group is a big conglomerate. They own quite a few businesses which are more or less related.
http://www.lotte.co.jp/english/group/index.html

Oh, no! Chiba Lotte Marines have dropped to 5th place (out of 6 teams in their league) What can stop this downward spiral? Ganbatte!

On a happier note — I can watch the video on my new iPod!! So much fun!! Thanks.

oooo this was wonderful!

Can you please do one for Tendo and Shogi It would work well with a Shogi related Kanji lesson

I am now convinced that Suzuki Sakura san invented professionalism in both Interviewing and Instructional techniques.

To the crew that is behind this magnificent video　ものすごいです、　どうもありがとうございました。

Loved the video. I wish there were more.
Very professional Sakura.

すぶらしですね！I just took my 日本人ともうだち to a Diamondbacks game recently; your time at the やくうガム seemed 少し面白いです. I really liked it, and hope to see more. Oh yeah, I have a suggestion/queston: A friend asked me if Dog Collars were a new fashion craze in 日本. ほんとですか。Maybe next could be fasion trip to harajuuku?

ありがとうございます。

Great video - it was very fun to hear the interviews! We went to see Seibu Lions last year, and it was fun to watch Japanese baseball!
Could you try printing subtitles in kanji, like real TV? It would be great practice, especially using the PDF and watching it over again.

Doumo arigatou gozaimasu. Sakura ga kawaii !Totemo tanoshii desu.

That was awesome. It was actually the first time in a while I’ve watched something about baseball and not gotten annoyed. (I LOATHE ‘Red Sox Nation’) I can’t wait to see more!

It was a great video, Sakura-san! Looking forward to seeing more of your reports.

Finally got the chance to watch this. As a HUGE Hanshin Tigers fan who has had the privilege of seeing several games at the awesome Koshien, I was thrilled to see a piece on Japanese baseball. I personally think that Japanese baseball is much more entertaining than American baseball because of the wholehearted energy of the crowd. I would have liked to have seen a bit more of the fans during the game in order to compare Hanshin fans to another team’s fans. The organized taiko drumming and chants were awesome (at Koshien) and even lent a bit of NBA atmosphere to the ball game. I even got good enough to yell the chants along.
Sakura was awesome and the filmography was very slick.
And, no offense Marines, but GO TIGERS GO!!!!

“So it’s been a few months now–when might Part 2 be scheduled to appear? We are waiting eagerly…”

+ 1. I’m also waiting eagerly.