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An Invitation to See the Hanshin Tigers

2000· article· en· W250758215 on OpenAlex
Dan Gordon

Why this work is in the frame

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueNine · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicAmerican Sports and Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnthusiasmShitPoliticsPsychologySisterMedia studiesSociologyHistoryArt historyLawSocial psychologyPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Japanese Baseball as Seen Through the Eyes of a Female Fan was studying Japanese grammar one afternoon on a bench outside Osaka's Ryokuchi Koen Youth Hostel when Fujiko Tanaka invited me to join her for green tea. Wiry and springy with radiant, beady eyes and a ponytail that bobbed when she spoke, she looked sixteen years old but was twenty-three, a pharmaceutical graduate student by night and youth hostel desk clerk by day. She struck me as an independent spirit in a culture where tradition still tightly proscribes male-female roles. Alongside male coworkers she was meek, nodding as they spoke and silent during group banter. She batted her eyelashes and spoke in a dumbstruck manner. However, around foreign guests she was self-assured, ruminative, inquisitive, respectful, and funny. had chatted with Fujiko many times about politics and travel, particularly her interest in studying herbal medicine in China. But was surprised on this afternoon to learn of her enthusiasm for baseball. I have not gone to see the Hanshin Tigers play this year, she said as she poured me tea. Usually go with my younger sister but this year we've been busy with school. would like to see a game, although they are in last place. They are... bara bara. She thumbed her Japanese-English dictionary for a translation. 'Scattered, fractured,' she read. Their manager is lackadaisical so they don't play like a team. They play just to improve their individual statistics. Did you grow up a Hanshin fan? Yes, Gordon-san! used to ride my bicycle to Koshien Stadium [where Hanshin plays] to wish my favorite player, Kakefu, encouragement when he arrived at the stadium. He wasn't drafted. He was a walk-on who worked hard. used to turn my bedroom television set silent when he batted, and thought heard the crowd rooting for him. Maybe just heard the expressway? Now no longer watch the games because of my schedule. Charmed by Fujiko's history with the Tigers, invited her to a Hanshin home game and she enthusiastically accepted. At the game a few days later she sat attentive and reverent, her face radiating calm, her cheeks flush, leaning toward me occasionally to point out something. She had draped her dark blue windbreaker over her lap. Occasionally, when she swiped strands of hair from her eyes, noted she was profoundly beautiful. Fujiko closely watched the game, periodically filling me in about the Tigers. A few years ago a player named Mayumi was very popular, she said. Fans celebrated his plate appearances by dancing to the Mickey Mouse March. The song and dance had no special meaning, but became tradition. She told me that the Tigers had a disadvantage in the league because they had to spend two consecutive weeks on the road when the ballpark hosted the national high school championship tournament. (See NINE vol. 4 no. 2, pp. 334-44). It often resulted in the team losing heart. She said special gardeners grew the ivy covering the outside wails of the stadiums. asked whether she felt attached to Koshien Stadium. I like all diamonds, she said dreamily. I think someone wise designed the baseball diamond. Maybe more people go to see ballgames than go to see the fall foliage in Kyoto and tour Kinkaku-ji Temple. Have you heard of it? It has a gold-foiled exterior that reflects in Kyoko Pond. There's one trail near my house which leads to the summit of Mt. Rokko. People take it for the view. think people are similarly attracted to a baseball diamond. My guess is there are dimensions that humans find comfortable and the ballpark contains such dimensions. Shifting excitedly and pulling back her hair, she shared that she had studied architecture as an undergraduate, and two important architectural principles are geometrical patterns and regulating lines. Regulating lines are not always visible, but they form patterns that give something comprehensible order. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.294
Threshold uncertainty score0.862

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1390.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it