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Assassination Classroom 1x12 Reaction Extended (YT link below) (Patreon)

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2025-02-19 02:10:56
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2026-06
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In Assassination Classroom 1x12, Ball Game Tournament Time, the principal shows up to commit the evil act of substituting out the incompetent baseball coach who for some reason has no strategic counter to bunting.

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YouTube Link:

https://youtu.be/kDVioZvzANY

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Anya Mcghee

Very excited for next episode :D

Sage

Karma and Sugino used intimidate. It is super effective.

baseballlover723

Oh, a baseball episode. Time to put my username to use. @10:10. 140 kph is ~87 mph. Which is faster than Jamie Moyer (who somehow pitched for 25 years) could pitch. Idk about middle or high school fastball speeds, but I have to imagine that it's incredibly good to get that level of velocity that early (even if we're being generous and saying it's his last year of middle school). Oh and doubly so since he's a lefty. @11:45. Korosensei has even gotten into analytics, which is perfectly legal, so long as you don't use technology during a literal game. Basically you can't use real time data. But anything historical is A ok. @15:25. Sadly, I think this defense is now illegal in the MLB (though NPB has their own rules) since 2023 (when they banned the shift). Rule 5.02c Comment: "Umpires should bear in mind that the purpose of the Infielder Positioning rule is to prevent the defense from having more than two infielders on either side of second base in an effort to anticipate where the batter will hit the ball prior to delivery of the pitch. If, in the judgment of the umpire, any fielder attempts to circumvent the purposes of this Rule 5.02(c), the umpire shall assess the penalty described below." I'm not 100% sure if this rule bans having more than 4 infielders, since there are legitimate cases where you just don't care about the outfield. But with everyone moved like that, I think it should be seen as a clear circumvention of the Infielder Positioning rule. But before that rule though, there wasn't any restriction (in the MLB) on any of the 7 fielders that didn't have designated spots (pitcher and catcher). You could place them wherever the hell you wanted (so long as they were all in fair territory). Some teams have actually played 5 man infields too (Bot 9, tie game, bases loaded, 1 or 0 out. A ball hit to the outfield wins it anyway, and you can use an extra infielder to play in and at double play depth). @23:40. This is violation of Rule 6.04c: "No fielder shall take a position in the batter’s line of vision, and with deliberate unsportsmanlike intent, act in a manner to distract the batter". Which the penalty for is ejection. Interestingly, this is right next to Rule 6.04b, which is the rule about how players in uniform can't fraternize with like anything (including opposing players). Though it's obviously not enforced, but it is on the books! Also on a semi related note. I once hit a kid with a baseball bat in little league. We were in the outfield after the game and the topic was if I could hit a home run from in the outfield (I had 0 power). I told my friend to back up, he said to swing, I swung, I hit him in the jaw with the bat (I don't think the ball went over the fence). In my defense though, I did tell him to back up and I was like 8 or 9 or so. There were many avenues that didn't result in a broken jaw. @25:00. It was 3 innings, though they mostly only showed the top of the 1st and the bottom of the 3rd. They show the scoreboard @29:32, and they even have the 4th inning crossed out.

agoodwintv
>>165212659

Thanks for the info, I know very little about baseball aside from the basics, though it was my intro to team sports, both playing and watching. But I was pretty confident it was illegal to stand right in front of the batter haha. I've actually been thinking recently about how baseball seems to have had a much bigger market share when I was a kid that maybe got eaten by the NFL? A lot of players were household names back then on that superstar strata, whereas I feel that is decreasingly the case, except maybe recently with Ohtani. But I can't tell if this isn't another one of those things that just feels that way because it's colored by the particular world I live in

baseballlover723
>>165212659

Baseball's market share is for sure down. And honestly, it's been trending downwards since like the 70's or so. There's a whole lot to be said about why and such, but I think a major reason is the emergence of other major sports leagues, like the NFL and NBA or at least them becoming true competitors. There was a fascinating video I saw a while back about how the advent of widescreen TV "negatively affected" baseball (it didn't really, it just didn't benefit from widescreen TV like every other sport). But I'm pretty sure that the major reason is that (younger) people just don't think baseball has enough action anymore, and so it's boring to watch. Hell I'm pretty sure baseball was considered to be dying before the steroid fueled home run chase of 1998 and the rest of the late 90's and early 2000's. So it's definitely not just a you thing. Interestingly though, I don't think that's the case for Japanese baseball and I think I heard something about like the most watched game (or something like that) being a game that featured like ~3-4 Japanese players (Ohtani and Darvish and I think 1 or 2 more). Also I recall Ohtani being so big in Japan, that they literally have a channel that just points a camera at Ohtani all game (no matter if he's just sitting in the dugout or anything). And teams run Japanese ads when Ohtani is in town. It's crazy how popular Ohtani is (and for good reason too). Honestly, there's a very good argument to be made that his $700 million contract is an underpay for how much value he brings in. Given that he single handedly give his team the Japanese market.

agoodwintv
>>165212659

Yeah seeing his rise has been interesting and I think was one of the things to led to that thought. In fact since that was the sequence, I wondered if maybe it could be partly attributed to NOT having a big name brand star for a while that really shook things up. In other sports it seems like to some degree major boosts happen around generational athletes like Lebron, Kobe, Jordan (I guess basketball just lends itself nicely to the standout star) Tom Brady, etc. But I'm speculating. It also is interesting, as you mentioned, how much more dominant it is in Japan (and Korea, though maybe to a lesser extent). I wonder what accounts for the difference

baseballlover723
>>165212659

Yeah I think baseball not having as big of superstars is a contributing factor. Also the influence of a superstar is much more diminished in baseball than other sports. Steph Curry or Lebron will play in like 35 of the 48 minutes of gameplay (and represent 20% of the team during that time). Tom Brady will pretty much play in half of the game's total interactions and will initiate every offensive play. Mike Trout will have like ~6 or 7 of like ~70 game interactions and is just 1 of 10 main players on his team in that game. A superstar in many other team sports just has much more influence on their games then a superstar in baseball. That's how you can have the undeniably best player in baseball (Mike Trout 2012 - 2016), make the playoffs just once, and fail to win any playoff games. Plus the public really turned on steroids, so basically all of the superstars from like 15 years of baseball (~1990 - ~2005) have become villains. Also I think as people got more options for entertainment, the attractiveness of baseball has gone down. A major advantage of baseball historically was the "take your family to a ball game" aspect of it. Baseball is played almost every day, so tickets are generally cheaper. The game is pretty slow paced, so it doesn't demand your constant attention (it's more "casual"). It translates very well to text based reporting (the box score of a baseball game translates much closer to the events of the game), so it's easy to spread via newspaper / follow along without going to the games. A lot of these factors are much less relevant these days imo + there's just a ton of other options available to people (especially so since the advent of the internet). I have some theories on why baseball is as popular in Japan and Korea (though I'll readily admit that I'm not very versed in the history of baseball in Korea). Though it's a common misconception that baseball was introduced to Japan via the US occupation of Japan post WW2. It actually became popular before WW2 in the 30's (aided by a US all star tour of Japan, headlined by Babe Ruth and other huge names in baseball) though it was first introduced to Japan in the late 1800's. I suspect that a minor factor is that baseball is an easier sport for Asians (who are genetically of slightly smaller stature / size) to play. Physical attributes are much less impactful in baseball than in other sports. Baseball is much more "skill based", since the dominant skill is hitting a baseball. There's virtually 0 contact in baseball, so weight / size isn't that much of a factor since you don't have to physically compete against another player for the same spot. Put simply, not being a freak athlete is much less punishing in baseball then in other North American sports and the skills required to be great at it, are for the most part, trainable. You could be physically incapable of missing a basketball shot, but if you're 5ft 5in, you don't have a shot at the NBA. The NFL is I think the most physically demanding, with basically everybody but the quarterback being a genetic physical freak in some aspect. Hockey is out of the question, since you need lots of ice for it to be culturally viable. Soccer does best when there are large open fields and low infrastructure (but soccer basically doesn't need any infrastructure) and Japan is pressed for space. There's of course traditional / regional sports, but I don't know much about those, so I won't talk about those. But I do suspect though that the US involvement of Japan and Korea was certainly a huge boon to the sport (taking place in the golden age of American baseball) and probably the most dominant force involved. Which also explains why baseball isn't popular in China (though communism and thus being "anti American" may also be a dominating factor) or other Asian countries. This would also explain nicely why baseball is much more popular in Latin and South America, which have a ton of American cultural ties, much more than in Europe or Africa. Anyway, it's certainly an interesting and nuanced topic that the commissioner of baseball is very interested in, and has recently taken rather large steps to try and address. Examples being adding the pitch clock, speeding up the game time. Banning the shift, resulting in more offense. Forcing a minimum number of batters for pitchers, reducing the impact of specialist relievers (there is a statistically measurable and significant detriment to the batter if they bat from the same side as the pitcher throws) increasing offense overall and also speeding up the game (less pitching changes). Making the bases bigger and limiting pickoff attempts (also speeding up the game) to incentivize the exciting play of stealing (analytics had basically said that if you weren't Rickey Henderson, attempting to steal was essentially very slightly advantageous to clearly disadvantages given the expected odds of the attempt). Adding the DH to the National League, so pitchers don't bat anymore, resulting in more offense (though I'm not really a fan of this one). Actually the DH one is pretty ironic, since Ohtani never played in a league that had pitchers bat (when he joined the Dodgers in the National League, they had just adopted the universal DH), so the game impact of having a pitcher that could actually bat was limited to just a few interleague games from when he was on the Angels. Interestingly enough, Ohtani essentially has his own rule regarding DHing. Technically, Ohtani bats as the DH and not the pitcher (technically you can opt to not use the DH and have the pitcher slot bat). The difference is that when you substitute for Ohtani, he can still bat, whereas if he was slotted as a batting pitcher, then pitchers after Ohtani would also have to bat (It's been fucked up in the past a few times, leading to some very interesting at bats, with sometimes it being literally more then a decade since the pitcher has stepped into the box). Anyway, I think this is quite a bit more than you bargained for about baseball (and frankly pretty close to complete to my own modern understanding of recent baseball as a whole). As one might guess, it's a topic that I feel pretty obligated to know things about, even if I don't really keep up with the day to day of it these days.