The second game of the Japan Series between DeNA and Softbank coincided with the vote counting day for the House of Representatives election, and TBS simultaneously broadcast the game and the voting report. Among them, Shinjiro Koizumi‘s guaranteed election was accompanied by a caption that read, “During high school, he was mostly first and second.” If you think about it, Shinjiro often uses the baseball analogy. In what situations would it be brought out? What is the new “Shinjiro syntax” that is not tautology?
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Shinjiro Koizumi, who served as vice captain during his third year at Kanto Gakuin Mutsuura High School and advanced to the top 16 at the Kanagawa Prefectural Tournament in the summer, uses a “baseball analogy” at press conferences and other occasions. It is mainly narrowed down to three patterns.
[3 patterns in which Shinjiro Koizumi uses the “baseball analogy”]
・When you are in trouble
・Reinforcement of claims
・phrases and words for the media
Pattern 1) When you’re in trouble…”I was just playing baseball.”
Shinjiro first joined the Abe Cabinet in 2019 as Minister of the Environment. At her inaugural press conference, when asked about 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg, she looked up a little, paused, and then said:
〈…As someone who has only played baseball, it’s amazing. I thought I would be absent from class. I thought it was time for real play after class, so all I did was play baseball. That’s amazing〉(Distributed on September 11, 2019/THE PAGE)
If we analyze the logical development, we get this.
claim:amazing
Reason 1:Because I only played baseball.
Reason 2：Because I thought I would be absent from class.
in conclusion:amazing
To say “amazing,” I use myself from high school as an example. This is a method that everyone uses, and there is no problem with it. It seemed like he was choosing his words carefully, probably because it was a sensitive topic for him as the Minister of the Environment. When people are in trouble, they may rely on their own areas of expertise.
Pattern 2) Reinforcing the argument… Talk about “No. 4” in the presidential election
The above example also applies, but Shinjiro uses a “baseball analogy” to “reinforce his argument.” When he ran for president of the Liberal Democratic Party in September of this year, the receipt number on his application was number 4. Then, as if a fortune had descended upon him, he began to speak.
“Out of a record number of nine candidates, I was given the number 4. Even in my high school baseball days, I had never hit number four, but he gave me the number four.(Distributed on September 12, 2024/Nikkan Sports)
“Number 4″ is a coincidence, and just because you get that number doesn’t mean anything will happen. The presidential election is not baseball. So why did Shinjiro talk about “number 4” as if it were fate?
