Many musicians have created masterpieces related to baseball. I asked him to write about such a famous artist from the perspective of a music critic who loves baseball (twice in total).
There is a “baseball record award”. Or rather, it was launched by me. However, unlike the “Rock Baseball Hall of Fame” that I wrote in the article I posted at the same time, this one already has a history of 15 years. That’s because it’s a baseball magazine that has been published every year.
Last year, the song “Baseball”, which was recorded in Quruli’s album “Genius Love”, was awarded the grand prize. So, here, I would like to thoroughly analyze the lyrics of this song.
If you are interested, please check the lyrics site. The names of real professional baseball players are embedded in the gaps between the phrases “Keep it away” and “Cool!”.
If you look closer, you can see that there is a tendency for each chorus (No. 1, No. 2, …) for the players that appear, which is very interesting. Therefore, we try to analyze the tendency of the players selected for each chorus. There may be a serious discovery there.
Below, as a legend of the list, the inside of the key bracket is the expression in the lyrics, and the name of the player who received it is written on the right. Athletes who have been sung in a special way will write the sung in parentheses. Then.
From power hitter to director to MLB pitcher
・ “Gita”: Yuki Yanagita
・ “Bass”: Randy Bass
・ “Refill”: Takeya Nakamura
・ “Tatsunori”: Tatsunori Hara
・ “Godzilla”: Hideki Matsui (repeated 3 times)
First of all. Five people from Yuki Yanagita to Hideki Matsui will appear.If you name it here[One-shot cannon frame].. Some people may feel a little uncomfortable with Tatsunori Hara, but he has hit 382 home runs. The requirements will be fully met. Hideki Matsui is repeated three times as “♪ Godzilla Godzilla Godzilla”.
・ “Rami-chan”: Alex Ramirez
・ “Kiyoshi”: Kiyoshi Nakahata
・ “Tomonori”: Tomonori Maeda
・ “Ochiai”: Hiromitsu Ochiai
・ “Akiyama”: Koji Akiyama
・ “Inaba”: Atsunori Inaba
・”Furtian”: Atsushi Furuta
・ “Mitsuru Manaka”: Mitsuru Manaka
These 8 people[Experienced manager frame]right. Atsunori Inaba also joined as SAMURAI JAPAN coach. The problem is that only Tomonori Maeda has no experience as a director, but I was surprised as a person who knew the active era, and I saw the qualities of a leader for the first time as an unexpectedly cheerful commentator. I want to be included in the “Director Candidate Frame”.
・ “Darvish”: Yu Darvish
・ “Mah-kun”: Masahiro Tanaka
・ “Kuroda”: Hiroki Kuroda
・ “Matsuzaka”: Daisuke Matsuzaka
・ “Daimajin”: Kazuhiro Sasaki
・ “Irabu”: Hideki Irabu
・ “Mr. Nomo”: Hideo Nomo
Obvious at a glance[Major pitcher frame].. It is also good to start with Darvish and close with Hideo Nomo, a pioneer who has advanced to Japanese majors. However, personally, I wanted Yasuhiko Yabuta to be included. Due to the huge and often forgotten achievement of “Striking out Alex Rodriguez at the 2006 WBC”.
