Chapter Seventy-Four: Yang Ping's Choice (Part 1)
"Please lose!"
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Two outs, no one on base.
Yang Ping stood in the strike zone, and his mind kept recalling what Ochiai had told him.
Lose!
Yang Ping has never thought about this option, since he started playing baseball, the contact environment has always been relatively simple. Whether it is Didong Shaoba, or Didong Middle School, the sincerity in the future, including the current Qingdao.
Baseball is a team sport, and there is nothing dark about any team. But the environment Yang Ping stayed in was not bad, almost all of them were very clean and pure, and he fought for victory. In addition, he has superb strength, and the coach he meets is not a psychopath, so Yang Ping's autonomy has always been relatively high. Even when he was in Akagi, he had the final say in the entire team.
In such an environment, Yang Ping has become accustomed to the pursuit of victory.
No matter what kind of competition it is, as long as Yang Ping participates, he will inevitably fight desperately for victory, which has even become Yang Ping's trademark.
A game that made Yang Ping think about how to lose?
Before, Yang Ping would never have chosen this, and he wouldn't even think about it.
But as long as you calm down and think about it, in fact, losing this game is not necessarily a good thing for Qingdao. It is precisely because he has been a coach for a period of time that Yang Ping has such a perspective.
Undefeated!
What a good word, it seems that since Yang Ping and their joining Qingdao this session, Qingdao has never failed much.
The only time was because the captain Miyuki was absent. But just like that, Qingdao has also defeated a lot of strong enemies.
We are kings, we are strong, we are undefeated.
These are very morale-boosting words and achievements, but at the same time, they have gradually formed a kind of cage and shackles. These things are like a huge burden hanging over the heads of the Seongdo players.
You can't afford to fail, and you can't even do badly. The more stalemate the game, the more the player's mistakes will be infinitely magnified.
Qingdao players are not saints, and if they don't have the determination to put everything aside, it may be difficult for them to break through the interceptions of giants such as Inagi, Yakushi, etc. in the next game.
And as long as Qingdao loses one game, the myth of the king's undefeated is equivalent to being broken.
Similarly, the heavy shackles on the Qingdao players have been untied. They will step down from the altar and return to the earth.
Koshien won no longer as their task, but once again became their goal.
Of course, these are the private thoughts of Ochiai and Yang Ping, and no one can say what the real situation is. Maybe after losing this game, the spirit in the hearts of Qingdao's friends will also be dispersed, which is something that cannot be said.
Theory is like a debate competition, everyone has their own perspective, and they can all stand on different angles and say a completely different set of theories.
But in fact, such a statement does not convince Yang Ping himself, the experience of his previous life has exposed Yang Ping to a lot of psychological things, although it is only a surface, but it is not difficult to ponder the psychology of these students.
He knows very well that Luohe's concerns are not groundless, in fact, there are already some signs in the team. Although it is not obvious yet, the chain reaction is very powerful once it erupts.
In the final analysis, although high school students are close to adulthood in physical fitness, in terms of their minds, they are still very early from adulthood. If the mind is not mature enough, it is naturally impossible to be calm in the face of things. The game has been smooth sailing, but once it encounters a desperate crisis, it is not surprising that the friends of Qingdao High School will collapse.
Because they have experienced something less than others, and that is how to learn to grow from failure. This is not to advocate defeat, but because in the knockout format, if you don't understand the meaning of defeat enough, you may suffer a lot.
If you want to win Koshien in the summer competition, you will have to go through at least 13 or 4 rounds. Needless to say, if you don't win any of the games, the summer is over.
And now the Qingdao friends no longer have this sense of crisis, and victory seems to have become a matter of course for them. So they don't think about the outcome anymore because that's what they think the other teams need to think about.
Such a mentality is not good, it is still bad. But all in all, it is unsound, if there is no consciousness of failure, it will be in such a cruel weather to fight against the masters of the whole country. Undoubtedly send to death!
What Coach Luohe wants to do is to let Qingdao's friends experience failure.
Only when you really experience failure, Qingdao's friends will realize. The masters of the country are not as they imagined. Qingdao High School didn't do it smoothly. If you really want to win the highest honor, you can only fight to the death with the determination to win regardless of everything!
Without such awareness, it is dangerous for Seido High School to play summer games!
Yang Ping agrees with the theory of falling river from the bottom of his heart. But is he really going to do it?
Yang Ping is different from others, in this life, he strives to keep up with his life and draw a clear line. In the previous life, Yang Ping experienced too many things, and saw too much ugliness and darkness.
finally had a chance to be reborn, Yang Ping wanted to live a simpler life anyway, but his idea seemed to have become a luxury.
When Luohe made this suggestion, the world before Yang Ping no longer existed. In contrast, Luohe is already a very simple coach. Yang Ping is not unclear that there must be many coaches in the teams in this world who are scumbags, at least there are many extreme egoists.
Later, he entered the professional baseball circle and even began to break into the major leagues.
Not only did he have to go through coaches, fans, but also all kinds of temptations, scouts and even agents.
Any successful star, including a sports star, is not a mere individual. He has more or less the factor of team functioning.
If Yang Ping really wants to laugh at the big league, then he will be exposed to more various things in the future, and problems like Luohe are just pediatrics.
School is an ivory tower!
Although this small society also has all kinds of contradictions and conflicts, compared to the outside world, it is undoubtedly much simpler and much more beautiful.
Do you really want to do this?
Yang Ping asked himself over and over again, but in the end he didn't find the answer he wanted. Do you obey the goals you set in this life, or do you help your teammates and team?
This is an absolutely difficult decision for everyone.
"Good shot!"
It was at this time that Ozawa's pitch came. The baseball, which was not fast or slow, went straight into the catcher's glove, and in the face of this ordinary ball, Yang Ping did not swing the bat.