In recent years, adult baseball has seen a series of suspensions and mergers. What is the point of a company having a baseball team? I heard from JR West that 50 to 60 employees have become a cheering squad and enthusiastically support the baseball team.[To the second part/first part of all 2 parts]
Many players from the JR West Japan Baseball Club are drafted and go on to become professionals. The same goes for Yutaro Sugimoto, the mainstay of the Orix Buffaloes, who won three consecutive Pacific League titles, and ace Yuya Ishiguro was selected fifth by the Hanshin Tigers in the 2023 draft. How do the members of the baseball team’s cheering squad view the players they were rooting for going into the professional world?
“That makes me happy. A player I’ve been watching for a long time is going to be drafted under my company’s name. Even if I haven’t watched much before, I suddenly find myself consciously following the Orix game. “I wonder if it’s working?” (Hideyuki Yamamoto/In charge of microphone performance for the cheering squad)
“When I was at Hiroshima Station before becoming a conductor, I worked with Naoki Sato, who was nominated No. 1 by Softbank in 2019.My friends who were standing at the ticket gate with me were going to play professional baseball.I was rooting for them. As a team, I was able to see them working hard at baseball, and as station mates, I saw them working hard, so it gave me energy for my own work.” (Takuya Yubara, Cheering Team Cheer Exchange Officer)
The cheering squad and the baseball team are all employees of JR West Japan when they go to work. We usually work together. People who know each other well just happen to be the ones cheering and the ones being cheered on at a baseball game. This is not limited to cheer team employees; at the Chugoku Headquarters, where baseball team members work everywhere, there is a natural momentum to support the baseball team.
“It’s like supporting a relative. In particular, as an advisor to new employees, I look after fielder Koji Toda, and at work I look after pitcher Haruno Tatsumi. So it’s completely different from supporting professional baseball. No. It feels like my own son is in it.” (Yamamoto)
Yuka Kumagai (cheerleader for the cheer squad) from the Kinki Headquarters, who has few opportunities to interact with members of the baseball team, also says this.
2023-12-24 17:32:18
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