Baseball in Europe, Why Not?
They say the three major topics a European woman doesn't want to hear from a Japanese businessman are:
the third, a baseball game,
the second, his company, and
the most worst, a baseball game played by colleagues of his company.
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Baseball will be no more an athletic event in London Olympic Games in 2012.
One of the most popular sporting events in Japan and the U.S. is going to be dropped from Olympic Games, though they play baseball in Beijing Olympic Games in 2008.
Countries surrounding the U.S. seem to love baseball just like those surrounding Japan do.
What is wrong with baseball in Europe?
Is it so anti-Europe?
Specialty in baseball is throwing a ball in the size you can fully take a grip on to a catcher or other team mate in a field into a spot he is expecting accurately as much as possible.
Throwing a stone at a wild dog or any other animal is historically a very natural movement for mankind.
As long as you can find those stones suitable for dashing, you can fight. If you have a bat or a stick, you can further fight bravely. Kicking your game is the last action to confirm its death.
Therefore, throwing a ball and swinging a bat would satisfy a kind of human instinct.
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Since introduction of baseball into the Japanese society, there have been no civil wars.
But, in the U.S., they seem to need a few more sport events to reduce a potential of another civil war.
I heard a crime rate in the U.K. is five times larger than that in Japan.
They had better review and reconsider choices of the athletic events for London Summer Olympic Games.
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And I suspect that most of Japanese businessmen busy moving around might notice no difference between an American woman and a European woman, whether she is British or not.
Anyway, any Japanese businesswoman would kindly listen to a businessman who is just talking about a baseball game played by colleagues of his company.
But, would you?
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