{"id":20401,"date":"2025-11-05T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20401"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:04:25","slug":"baseball-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20401","title":{"rendered":"Baseball in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cHow can you think and hit at the same time?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=17776\">Yogi Berra<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_4238.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"943\" data-attachment-id=\"20398\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=20398\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_4238.jpeg?fit=1114%2C1500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1114,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 15 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1760090954&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.7649998656528&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;64&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0082644628099174&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_4238\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_4238.jpeg?fit=700%2C943&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_4238.jpeg?resize=700%2C943&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20398\" style=\"width:391px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_4238.jpeg?resize=760%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 760w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_4238.jpeg?resize=223%2C300&amp;ssl=1 223w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_4238.jpeg?resize=768%2C1034&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_4238.jpeg?w=1114&amp;ssl=1 1114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">In Japan even the storm drains are art. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were in Japan while the US Baseball playoffs were going on, so I bought us official Ohtani uniform shirts. We were quite a hit with the Japanese baseball fans, which included a lot of the customs and immigration officials. Life is good. For the record the Dodgers won an exciting seven game world series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow can you think and hit at the same time?\u201d Yogi Berra In Japan even the storm drains are art. We were in Japan while the US Baseball playoffs were going on, so I bought us official Ohtani uniform shirts. 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