How a Dissapointing Baseball Player Inspired a Japanese Art Movement - The Story of Gary Thomasson
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- Every offseason, like clockwork, something happens. A player of some standing in MLB signs in Japan, and people say they’re going to dunk.
Without fail. The player could be a AAA stud, the player could be a guy with a few MLB seasons under his belt. 8 times out of 10, these people are wrong. Especially in recent years.
Most of the time, players like that are forgotten. Consinged to the history books and remembered only by those who watched them, or found them while digging through a database.
But some, some gain a legacy in Japanese slang. One such player is Gary Thomasson
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• 超芸術トマソン／モルグモルマルモ Hype...
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MISTAKES:
1. I know I pronounced Vida Blue's name wrong, you can stop commenting it now. I know who he is, I had just never heard his name spoken before. It's a 2 second bit it doesn't "ruin the whole video". If it bothers you that much I suggest you rethink your priorities in life. Longtime watchers of the channel know I made the same mistake with Bill Veeck.
2. Reggie Smith's slugging was .573
All good, my dude! The video is still awesome!
love learning about obscure players
He may have been average... But name another baseball player that has an art movement named after him.
Found this video through your twitter account which I follow.
What drew me to watch this was that I have a co-worker who says Gary Thomasson is his cousin, although he has never met him.
My co-worker friend, who doesn't follow much baseball, only knew that Thomasson played for the SF Giants. He was unaware that he had won a World Series with the Yankees until I told him.
So he was quite surprised when I added that his cousin also played in Japan. He'll probably get a kick when I tell him about this video. Interesting stuff.
Keep up the great work. I've been following NPB for about 4-5 years now. I know very little about its history and am eager to learn.
The fact you have less than 10k subs is mind boggling. You deserve many, many more. I wish I had found this channel sooner, but better late than never.
Japanese Baseball culture has a huge influence of Japanese culture/net culture like Mike Greenwells "神のお告げ" or the "Revelation from God", a slang like "ンゴ" which you use when someone/something makes a grave mistake coming from Domingo Guzman, or "クレメンス" and "マダックス" coming from Roger Clemens and Greg Maddux which i dont even think people who use it know that it originates from 2chan baseball threads, its fascinating.
This is a deep, deeeep cut. Wonderful storytelling.
I'm very audio and I couldn't help notice the background music. As you were giving the chronological events during Thomasson baseball career I was distracted by the incongruent rock music (particularly the vocals) and I almost exited. However, as I was listening to the part about the photo artist Genpei, I didn't immediately notice that the background music had changed. I was caught up in this discussion of these photos that were oddly humourous and at the same time "sentimental". For a minute or so I hadn''t realized that the background music had turned into a spacey instrumental and I thought, "Oh, this is cool". Altogether, the entire art segment was very engaging. Well done, sir!
so glad i got recommended this video. ive been wanting to learn more about japanese baseball after becoming a fan of shunsuke watanabe, but found it difficult to learn much about how the npb culture is and how it compares to mlb. im very surprised that your channel hasnt blown up yet, as your videos are very engaging in how they are structured, and your commentary is very well spoken and easy to follow. thank you for these high quality in depth videos, i cannot wait to binge the rest of your vids 🙏 go marines 😛
Hey man I love your work, keep it up
Heyy I didn’t know you’re Canadian! Love for your channel from Ottawa! 🇨🇦
Amazingly sublime video!
Amazing!!! Thank you!
Really great video
Great story. Great channel. ⚾️
This is awesome!
Fascinating how sports and culture intercede.
This.
Is.
Fantastic.
❤❤❤
Wow you are very clever! Kudos
I knew about the counterfeit money, but I had no idea Akasegawa's connection with baseball. Fascinating.
The average person simply does not grasp how enormously difficult it is to not only become an MLB player but become one who rises above obscurity. Thousands of promising players have come and gone, their names likely lost to history. You could make an entire video series about forgotten prospects going as far back as the 1960s. There are young guys playing right now who will never step foot on an MLB field. There are others who get called up but linger on the 40-man roster seeing little if any action before they get sent back down to the minors.
Speaking of the 40-man roster, most people think a minor league player getting called up to a big-league parent team means that player has made it. Nothing could be further from the truth. The call up lands the player on the 40-man roster. If there are no available spots a current player on the 40-man roster must be designated for assignment to make room for the new player. Designated for assignment players are basically on their way back to the minors. Once a player makes the 40-man roster her will have 3 years to prove he is good enough for a starting job. A fourth year may be granted under certain circumstances.
Vida Blue rhymes with side a glue.
Yep. VYE-da Blue.
And, I would assume “Thomasson” is just like “Thomas-son” (TOM-as-son) as opposed to what you’re saying, “TOME-ahs-sun”. (But I do get it, as that’s how the Japanese would pronounce his name.)
I know. I acknowledged it in the pinned comment. Of course I know who he is, I'd never heard his name spoken before.
I wish people would actually read it.
@@GaijinBaseball your video is very well done. That little mistake is not really important. I know a woman called Vida who spells her name the same as Blue but pronounces it the way you did.
I am not really a baseball fan, more interested in art, but as a kid I liked Blue and some other guys like Roberto Clemente and Joe Morgan... Rollie Fingers, Catfish Hunter...
Jack Elliot was my all time favorite gaijin ball player
8:46 nah wait hold up that sounds interesting
The channel name alone gets a sub; 100% in my wheelhouse. ❤
Neat video.
Why do Brazilian players often end up with the Yakult Swallows?
It's a neat story acually, the Swallows had a partnership with the CBBS (Brazilian Baseball and Softball Confederation) in the 80's.
The Swallows wanted a warm place to practice during the offseason and the brazilian national squad needed a training center, so they got together and made it happen. Just google "Ibiúna CT Yakult", Ibiúna being the city where it was built, about a couple hours drive from São Paulo and CT short for Training Center in portuguese
New York City and small town America has TONS of Thomasson style art just ripe for the plucking....especially in the 1980's with tech movement going faster and faster.
Brutal
Yakuza music, good choice.
Kinda wish Thomasson would embrace it and hook up with the photographer.
Sadly Genpei passed away back in 2014
Lol! It's not pronounced "VEE-da" Blue. It's "VYE-da" (like "eye") Blue.
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That is fucking brutal lmao
Vyda not veeda .
You must be young.good job.
Is that music from Yakuza 0 I hear?
Yep, I use it a lot whenever I'm covering the 70s and 80s
Good video, but is there an explanation for why the DAMN PICTURE KEEPS FLOATING AROUND?
My ADHD. If anything's standing still I don't like the way it looks, it feels too stilted.
I find It also keeps the viewer focused on the image because our eyes are naturally drawn to movement.
I've been doing it for years and I think you might be the first to complain about it. Then again this video has blown up by my standards.
7:05 Reggie Smith's stats don't look quite right to me. How does he have an OBP of .379 and a SLG of .409, but his OPS is .952?
His slugging was .573, my bad
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The large block of text at the timestamp really broke the flow of the video (imo). Nice video otherwise!
Wow 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I want to learn about Japanese minor league system but can't find a good video
NPB Minor League (aka "ni-gun" lit. "Second Army") teams use the same uniforms as the Major League teams. Instead of the Central League and Pacfic League, they are split into the Eastern and Western League.
They play 80 games a year instead of 143.
Some teams have a "san-gun" (third army) team that usually plays against indyball clubs.
@GaijinBaseball thank you, I only known about teams wearing their parent club jerseys but didn't know anything else and didn't know about indy teams outside of shikoku Island plus league
Trevor Bauer did well last year
The first segment was about foreign hitters, not pitchers. That's a whole other thing altogether.
Clicking off as soon as you mispronounced Vida
Hey I'm from Toronto too! Keep up the good work!
Jung Who Lee is a major disappointment. KBA superstar but a 4th OFer with no impact and can't steal bases in MLB. Talk about disappointment
Your erroneous use of the word rape in the opening of the video made me not want to watch the rest of it tbh
He said “rake”, as in to hit at a high level
RAKE
A colloquial term for hitting well in baseball
What the hell, dude?
@owenmclaughlin8559 He said RAKE as in "The baseball player could rake the ball". Verb: To really hit the ball hard, all over the park. When you’re raking, you’re hitting very well.😒😒