ps: Today is Women’s Day. This chapter is free. I wish you all good health. Text below.
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"Every year, more than 4,000 schools participate in the summer baseball league. After layers of screening, 49 teams are finally selected to participate in the national finals, which is Koshien."
On the Shinkansen, Bei Dao was introducing the basic situation of Koshien to Lu Ren.
Jiaziyuan is divided into spring and summer. Summer Koshien generally lasts from early August to mid-to-late August, and the specific time is not fixed. What Lu Ren and the others are watching now is the summer Koshien finals.
The game starts at one o'clock in the afternoon. I'll take the bus there in the morning. I'll have lunch after arriving and go over to watch.
The seat arrangement of the Shinkansen they took was 2+3. Two seats on one side, three on the other. Lu Ren and Bei Dao sat together. Hattori Conan and Mori sat on the other side. Lan He and Ye sat behind Lu Ren.
To put it simply, Lu Ren is surrounded by beauty. This was not because of how charming he was, but because Bei Dao was sitting next to him.
The two little girls Lan and He Ye have some inexplicable affinity for Bei Dao for some reason. If it weren't for Lu Ren, who was in the way, they would have sat in the same row as Bei Dao.
"I only know Hyogo Kita in Hyogo Prefecture. I didn't expect Koshien to be here too."
"Hyogo Kita? What is that?" Bei Dao was a little confused.
"It's nothing. It's a joke from my family. It's not easy to explain in detail."
"Oh. By the way, Brother Ren, are there any activities similar to Koshien at your place?" Out of professionalism or his own curiosity, Bei Dao thought he needed to ask.
"Yes. Every year, my family regularly holds an event that attracts national attention. At that time, everyone's attention in the country is basically focused on it. All news media will report on it."
"So awesome? What kind of activity is this?"
In addition to Bei Dao, Lu Ren's statement also attracted the attention of others.
Mao Lilan and He Ye also pricked up their ears, ready to hear Lu Ren reveal the answer to the mystery. Conan, who was relatively familiar with Chinese culture, thought for a moment and quickly thought of what Lu Ren was referring to, and then he showed a hehe expression on his face.
"College entrance exam."
"Hey, isn't it the Spring Festival?" Conan asked subconsciously.
"That's definitely not the case. If we include holidays, we have too many national events."
Conan retorted: "Then the college entrance examination can't be counted either."
"Well, the college entrance examination you are talking about, is that what I understand? A selective examination for high school graduates."
"Um."
"This really doesn't count, right?"
"I'm not sure about the number of applicants for this year's college entrance examination. You can go back and check. There should be five to six million."
"so much?"
"Well. There will only be more in the future. This is in terms of the number of people. From other aspects, the college entrance examination provides a larger platform for candidates. Koshien also provides participants with a path to professional golfers. .So I don’t think there’s any difference between them.”
"Hey, you're wrong." When Hattori, who was originally watching the theater, heard this, he couldn't help but start to correct the name of his beloved Koshien, "Koshien is a place of dreams, not what you said."
Lu Ren nodded, "You're right. Only a handful of people in Koshien every year can become professional baseball players. The rest go there just to pursue their dreams."
Hattori, "..."
He always felt that there was something strange about Lu Ren's words. Dream seems to have become a derogatory term in Lu Ren's mouth.
"But this is also the reason why Koshien is beautiful. The contestants are basically pure and unadulterated. Youth, dreams, hopes, blood, tears of defeat and shouts of victory. The audience always likes these. No matter who is interviewed, They can all say without hesitation that they are doing it for their dreams. If you go up and interview those professional players, they will rarely say that they are doing it for their dreams."
Heye asked: "Then what will they say?"
"Don't you watch the news? When you ask, you just want to bring glory to the country."
"Forehead."
Lu Ren then asked: "By the way, I remember that there seems to be no female golfers in Koshien."
"No."
"Pity."
"What's the point..." Halfway through the words, Hattori's emotional intelligence temporarily came online, and then he changed his words, "It's okay, after all, there has never been such a precedent."
"It has always been like this, so it must be right. It's not like there are no female baseball players in Japan. Koshien is recognized as the holy land of baseball. Female players can't play a game in person in the holy place they dream of. Don't you think it's a pity?"
Hattori was silent.
"Objectively speaking, female golfers are not superior to male golfers in terms of physical fitness, speed, strength, endurance, etc. But if a female golfer can really overcome these disadvantages, then she can definitely be on the Koshien stage. The best and biggest stage. I think this is a very good and very happy thing. What do you think?"
"Yes, yes. If there is really a sister who can do this, then I will definitely go to see Koshien with you and Heiji."
"Hmm... um. You're right." Hattori was silent for a while, "But it's difficult."
"It's difficult. Basically impossible."
Before He Ye could be happy for a while, Lu Ren directly poured a basin of cold water on him.
"Not only are the requirements for players high, but the requirements for the environment are also high. But we can start with something a little simpler." Lu Ren looked at Kitajima, "There should be a women's high school baseball game in Japan, right?"
"Yes. Japan's National High School Girls' Baseball Competition. Brother Ren, do you want to..."
"Yeah. It's not realistic to have a mixed game between men and women. Then let's hold a women's high school baseball match in Koshien first."
"This is good. This is good."
Hattori remained silent. As an insider who knows the sport of baseball very well, Hattori knows that Riku Ren's idea is not to say completely impossible, but can also be regarded as whimsical.
In the sport of baseball, those Japanese who follow the ancient system have their arrogance, prejudice and stubbornness engraved in their bones.
Don’t say anything else, just a few words. Although baseball is a sport that does not restrict women from participating. But when high school baseball clubs across the country recruit new players, they rarely recruit female players. Even if they are really recruited, they will not be able to participate in official competitions and can only do odd jobs in the team.
As for the gap in strength mentioned by Lu Ren. Male baseball players who can reach the highest stage of Koshien are definitely better than female players. But in general, male baseball players in high schools are not necessarily as strong as female players.
As a result, they are still unable to participate in the game. That cannot be explained by a simple strength gap. In the face of such a big environment, strength is the best gap to make up for.
It's just... looking at Kazuya's excited expression, Hattori still couldn't say anything to refute.
But if he didn't say it, someone would say it for him.
Conan said, "This is also difficult."
Lu Ren didn't confirm or deny, he looked at Bei Dao, "What do you think?"
"It's difficult, but worth a try."
"Then let's do it."
CONAN: "What are you going to do?"
"Build momentum first. Let the people from Japan Television set out to collect materials now, find some high school female players who work very hard and love baseball, shoot and edit their stories, and finally broadcast them in the form of a documentary. Then you can go to baseball The association should clear up the relationship. Hattori, I am the leader of the Osaka police, so he can definitely find someone."
"Huh? Well, let me try."
"And Conan, your... brother Shinichi's father, he can definitely speak."
"Eh? Shinichi?" Lan hesitated, "But he is very busy now."
"No matter how busy you are, you can't even spare time to make a phone call? I know Kudo is a very kind person." Lu Ren smiled and looked at Conan, "He will definitely help with this. Don't you think so?"
"Yes, yes. Brother Shinichi will definitely help." Faced with Lu Ren's almost obvious threat, Conan immediately did what he wanted.
"Yeah. You don't need to push hard. I just hope that if most people are happy to see this happen, some people within the association will not jump out to sing the opposite. You can ask your family members to help say a few words and remind you Just these people.”
"Yes. It can be done."
"In the end, I will write the manuscript. You have all contributed, and I definitely can't just watch."
"Aren, you might offend a lot of people."
Maori, who had remained silent before, now spoke up. If the current difficulties he is facing are compared to a shield, Lu Ren's move is equivalent to taking the initiative to be the sharpest spear.
This will undoubtedly sting a lot of people.
"It's okay. I don't have the reputation I have now because I am afraid of offending people, but I only get it by compromising again and again. Besides, what can they do? Can they beat me, or can they outsmart me?"
"Too."
ps1: The number of applicants for the college entrance examination in 2003 was 6.13 million.
ps2: On August 23, 2021, the 25th Japan High School Girls Baseball Competition finals were held in Koshien. This is the first time in the nearly 100 years since Koshien was built.
