Chapter 44 Wish for Japan's number one

I went to Toyohashi when I was nine years old. There is a small street speaker on the square in front of Toyohashi Station. At that time, I just felt that the sound coming out of it was very noisy. After listening carefully, I realized that it was a live broadcast of a baseball game.Because this broadcasting channel seldom broadcasts baseball games live, my first reaction was to be surprised. Then I found out that the game that was broadcast live at that time was a game in the Japanese Professional Baseball League. Lions. In the 29th year of the Showa era (1954), the Chunichi Dragons won the championship of the Japan Professional Baseball League. I remember that the praises of Sugishita, Nishizawa, Honda, Inoue and other players could be heard everywhere in the streets and alleys. It was at that time that I became interested in baseball. I still clearly remember this sentence in the retrospective conversation of the defeated coach Mihara:

He was generalized by Honda. It can be seen that coach Mihara has a high opinion of Honda, because Honda is also an idol I admire, so I remember this sentence very clearly. This year is the 40th year since the Dragons won the Japanese Major League Championship for the first time. For a long time, the Dragons have been supported by many diehard fans all the way, but what makes many fans feel sad is that for so long, the Dragons have Did not give back to the fans with the title of Japan's No. 1.Winning a few beautiful games in the league can only be regarded as a small gift.And the real big gift must be the number one in Japan. Regarding such facts and perceptions, I think the time has come for the dragon team to face it seriously, right?

We don't care about winning or losing the game itself, we just want to see the team's level continue to improve and bring us a very exciting game! Some fans are very tolerant, but I have a different view on this, at least I am not such a fan.The game of baseball is all about judging heroes by winning or losing. A team without the belief in winning makes people feel lifeless and without a trace of charm.In any case, the current dragon team is very disappointing. It feels that it is very difficult to win a game, and once it fails, it will be a big defeat. And this has become a characteristic of the dragon team, and it is this characteristic This makes it difficult for the Dragons to reproduce the style of the previous golden age.

Look at the Giants and Hiroshima. Have they slowly lost the support of fans because they are too strong?If the China-Japan Dragons won the major league championship for five consecutive years from this year, will the supporters of your Dragons decrease?I think this is impossible.To put it more clearly, we only hope that the Dragons can squeeze into the ranks of the first-class strong teams and become a strong team that other teams in Japan cannot match, so that they can regain their former glory. The baseball world is undergoing a huge change. The first year of the FA is also called the first year of the draft. As a team that has not won a championship for a long time, the Dragons should seize this opportunity and use this reform to completely change the concept and give fans a surprise.