Why Japan can win the WBC twice

At 3/22 a Japan baseball team broke American baseball fans' heart- Japan beats American in the semifinal and beats Korea in the final- Japan won WBC championship again. I think most people will agree MLB is the highest level league in the world, but they failed twice. Today I want to discuss this- first I will discuss the weakness of American team and second I will talk about why Japan can win the game.

Let me first discuss two different style of these two teams. American's baseball is powerful, and the hitter always full wing- even it's two strike zero ball. That's the different point when we look at Japan baseball team- they never full swing after two strike, and just contact the ball; besides, Japan focuses on the speed; almost all the players in Japan team can steal base. Of course many players in American team can steal, but not so many. Besides, there're many left hander hitter in Japan baseball team, it's the advantage since left hander hitter stand closer to first base and so they can combine this advantage with their speed; the infielder will under the pressure since evenif they get the ball maybe the hitter has arrived the first base.

Second, compared with American baseball, Japan baseball team is more displined. Every people knows what he shall do, not only want to get a double, home run; in many case they just want to get walk, and have all the base, give the pitcher much pressure; they will even use one out to get one run.

It looks just two different style of baseball, but it really matters in WBC. Let me mention the situation : it's the time before the season so professional players may not in their best condition and it's win or go home game- one game will determine if you are in or out. If players feel good, that's fine, they can still hit the ball out of the wall; but in many case they are not; hitters are still adjusting and the speed of the ball pithcers throw are less than that in the season. So we can see Japanse baseball style, which we can say " smallball" , is more suitable to win this game. As I said before, they don't want to hit a home run , but they will definitely get runs they shall have.

Maybe I shall mention one more point: Japan wants to win the game. I mean, of course every teams want to win the game, but baseball is the most popular game in Japan, they have a strong motivation to win the game.

Some good news is maybe next WBC game will hold at he time of World series; maybe at that time we can see who is the best baseball team in the world.

Kitchen in the air

Hello everyone:

  Today I'll teach you how to roast a full chicken. First of all, you must have a chicken; you can buy it at Smith. After washing it, then let it dry because we want to spread some seasonings on it. There're thousands kinds of seasonings, you can find it on internet, or you can just buy a babecue source; my favorite one is garlic, honey and add some lemon juice. But the point is, nomatter what seasoning and sause is, you must spread butters on the chicken!! That's because butters can prevent water from vaporing too fast; also, evenif you don't want to eat chicken skins, don't cut it off until the roasting chicken is done. 

  Finally, I recommend you warm up the oven ten minutes before roasting the chicken; adjust the oven at 375 'F,  when putting the chicken into the oven, put the chest- side down. Wait for two hours, and enjoy your roasting chicken!!

  When you just bake a leg or chest, not a whole chicken, that's totally the same procedure as before, but I suggest you to use aluminum foil to cover it. Any way, enjoy your chicken!!

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讓我們用阿基師的一句話來作結

-蛋炒飯就是要吃蛋和蔥的香味

accident

It's not a car accident, but because of this I lay on the bed in the hospital for one week.

At that time I was a third year undergraduate student in Taiwan. One day in the volleyball class,  the teacher asked us to pass students' serve.  When the student served, although I thought the ball would fly outside the court, I thought I can handle it. Therefore I ran to dig the ball. However, there're another student running toward me so we collided with each other.

At that time I just thought it's painful but nothing else; I thought I'm ok after taking a rest. But When I biked to my doom and went to the restroom, I found it's not urine, it's blood!!

I was so scared and so did my senior; when I lay on the bed of the ambulance, I felt very uncomfortable so I vomited; my senior was very scared and he cried out "he is vomitting blood!! he is vomitting blood!!" I was also very scared , "on my god, I'm vomitting blood". But After about ten minutes, people found it's watermelon juice, not blood; it's red, and you can see some watermelon seed in the red liquid.

Of course I felt very uncomfortable. Ironically, many funny things happened at that time.  The doctor used ultrasonic scan to see what's wrong in my body. Finally we knew my right kidney hurt.  Instead of cheering me up, the doctor said,  "Beautiful, beautiful!! The wound is so conspicuous!! I'll use this picture to teach my students."   And he talked to his student beside him " so we always say patients are our teachers, you should thank him!!" and he took a picture of my broken kidney to me to memorize it. 

At night they wanted to sent me from the emergency ward in  the first floor to the ward in the third floor, but they cannot do this directly. Because at the same day an injured gangster was sent into the hospital, and there are gangsters in the main entrance to protect, or to kill him. Alternatively,  we avoid passing the main entrance because we're afraid to be shot; we passed the office and went to the elevator; eveyone was happy because we were safe!!

Fortunately, my wound is classified as level 3; I'll need surgery if it's level 4 or level 5; but it's still painful. At that time I lay on the bed, it hurt even I just turned into the other side. After one week I left the hospital, one weeks later I can bike; one month later I can run, and now I'm still alive.

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沒想到第一次完整把這件事情寫下來是在我要上台報告的時候;說懷念到不至於，不過那的確是我人生很重要的一件事。

Pavarroti

  Lucica Pavarroti (10/12/1935- 9/6/2007) is my favorite singer in the world. Maybe the most famous thing is at the opera la fille du regiment ( the daughter of regiment)  in 1972, he sung the high C pitch nine times effortlessly ; even for professional tenor, it's a challenge to sing this pitch but Pavarroti can sing it exactly and smoothly. After that, he was called "the king of high C".

Many people say his beautiful voice was given by God, and since he is Italian, he is the master of Italian songs- no one can sing better than him in Italian songs.

  Of course, no one is a perfect singer, neither does Pavarotti. For example, his perfermence on the stage is terrible. Some people laugh him and say the most suitable song for him is the song with high C and all he needs to do is just sing it. As one of the best 3 tenors in the world, many people will compare Pavarotti with Domingo. Pavarotti never sings Deutch or French operas, but Domingo does. And Domingo is not only a good singer, but a good actor. Second, maybe he is the most fattest singer in the world, in fact his weight also affects his performence. On the other hand, the most famous and remarkable activity for Pavarroti is he will hold a perfermance with many pop stars every year, it's called " Pavarroti and his friends".  Compared with singing an opera, it will make more money for him. Three years ago he came to Taiwan for his farwell concert, but it sounds terrible- he's not the greatest singer at that time.

  However, the best way to judge a singer is his/her voice, not his brain or his behavior. Undoubly he is the best singer in Italian songs.  Maybe we can say he's the best singer in the late 20 century; on the other hand, since the golden age of opera had passed, maybe he's the last famous singer in the world.

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http://www.classicalautographs.com/people/opera/placido_domingo/pictures.html

This is my English presentation next week.