America's Pastime...in Japan

Baseball is considered America's game, but per capita, Japan takes the cake in terms of baseball fanatics. A baseball game in Japan has the usual stuff you would see at a game in the states, except here you can also find organized cheering, an unusual seventh inning stretch routine, grown men openly crying over a regular season game, 800-yen beers, cheerleaders circa 1981, the sissiest looking mascots ever, and a lot of quasi-English baseball words: Fighto! Nice Pitchy! Curbu Baru! Ret's Go! Just watch this video illustrating the evolution of the seventh inning stretch routine. There is no "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" sung over on this side of the Pacific.