Shiratori University, where Governor Yagi taught before, is located some distance from Tokyo, in Tochigi Prefecture in the northern part of the Kanto region. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The school's hardball club participates in the Kanka New Student Baseball League.

Compared to Tokyo's Six Universities Alliance or the Toyoto Alliance, it is much less well-known. But in the past ten years, it can be regarded as a professional baseball player.

This year's Shiratori University team has two players that caught the attention of professional baseball scouts. They are Oyama, a strong infielder, and Otsuka, a pitcher who can throw a 157-kilometer speedball.

The two were born in Ibaraki and were teammates when they were in college. After that, they entered Shiratori University together.

Yagi, who is now the superintendent of the Peace Academy, was a scout for the baseball club of Shiratori University, and he watched several games between the two of them in high school, and also wrote evaluation reports.

In a way, at least from Yagi's own boastful point of view, he was the hero of the discovery of these two professional baseball newcomers.

"If it's 157 kilometers, how can this get the upper name?"

Li Yuanrang didn't know much about the professional baseball draft. But one thing he understands is that professional baseball scouts in the United States or Japan will not let go as long as they see such a level of ball speed.

For scouting systems, the game data for amateur student baseball is really just for reference. And the data such as ball speed, base running speed, and long shooting distance are much more intuitive.

Traditionally, professional baseball scouts naturally prefer newcomers who have a high ball speed or run fast.

Because there is no risk in recommending such a type of player. If your boss or peers have any doubts, you can use this kind of intuitive data to gag their mouths.

"Otsuka? Well, the completion may not be enough, but the ball speed is there. I won't be left for the third round. ”

"What about the hill of the infielder?"

Li Yuanrang took out his mobile phone and found the information of the newcomers in this year's draft on the Internet. There is not much information about the hill of Shiratori University.

"Third baseman, good batting average, long hitting ability."

Even Superintendent Yagi, who has watched Koyama grow up since his college days, can only give such a comment.

Every year, there are a few college fielders of this level among the rookie candidates in the professional baseball draft.

If you let Superintendent Yagi calculate, the top players in this year's draft will definitely be the instant or semi-instant pitchers in the college ball world.

Then there are the potential newcomers who are active in Koshien.

Then it will be the turn of Xiaoshan, an ordinary university that has no topical topic.

Judging by common sense, there is probably a better chance of being selected in the third round.

If you're unlucky, you might be saved for the fourth round.

……

The discussion on the bus aroused the interest of the members of the Peace School baseball team in the draft meeting.

In particular, I heard that the original disciples of the Yagi superintendent also participated in the audition.

So on the day of the draft, a curtain was erected on the side of the baseball club's indoor practice field. The projectors were also moved.

Needless to say, the fielder who was in charge of debugging these devices was definitely Tako, a fielder from the IT department.

"You say, let's use the projector to watch the TV broadcast, will NHK come over and ask us for a viewing fee?"

Lee Wonrang does not have a television in his current residence, and he always uses this excuse to refuse NHK's toll collectors to enter the door.

And the equipment used by the baseball club to watch the broadcast is not a television.

"Anyway, it's not NHK, what are you afraid of."

Tian Gu, who was immersed in the wiring, said casually. It doesn't make much sense.

Japan's NHK broadcasts programs domestically without ads. And the program content cannot be embedded with any product promotion.

Even if it is a normal modern theme, the trademark of a car or other product should be deliberately replaced with a fictitious brand.

What's more, an anime about a manga artist that was broadcast on NHK's education channel.

The original comics are authorized by the copyright owner, and a large number of real-world comic magazines are mentioned in the comic content.

However, in the anime version broadcast by NHK, all of these contents had to be replaced with fictitious names.

The reason is very simple, because NHK's viewing fee is not something that viewers can not pay if they don't watch it. Rather, it is a semi-coercive act like collecting taxes.

Wherever there is a TV, it must be paid. In this case, there is no reason to broadcast commercial advertisements or implant products in the program content. Not even if it's not intentionally implanted.

There is an urban legend that there are so many televisions in the palace that it costs millions of yen to pay for NHK.

Li Yuanrang is not sure about the veracity of this statement. But he was probably sure that NHK's toll collectors would have delivered the bill to his door when they saw the TV reception system, which was the size of a movie theater screen.

"Ah, that's it."

Tian Gu took the line. Sato, the instructor of the baseball club, ran to turn off the lights on the indoor practice field.

Television footage is visible on the screen.

Through the external speaker, the sound can also be heard.

"It's still an advertisement......

The onlookers in front of the curtain were a little disappointed.

TBC TV was in charge of broadcasting the draft.

It is the so-called "earth-based wave release".

There are a lot of bad things that go wrong with this kind of TV station when it broadcasts big events.

The first is that the ads are endless.

Sometimes it doesn't feel like you're running an ad in between events. Instead, insert campaigns between ads.

There is also the fact that the pictures of the event are not directly broadcast, but the guests in the studio talk endlessly.

These two points are not the most annoying.

The most annoying thing is that these "ground wave" TV stations are all comprehensive channels.

News, variety shows, TV dramas, sports. All kinds of content need to be taken into account.

The time slot is precious and difficult to allocate, which leads to the fact that the broadcast of large-scale events often has no beginning and no end.

The current draft is estimated to only broadcast a few rounds of live broadcasts named by the upper ranks.

After the third and fourth rounds, the content will also depend on the live text broadcast on the Internet.

Even when professional baseball games are usually broadcast, these "ground wave" channels often broadcast seven or eight innings and then directly cut off after overtime. People can't see the results.

"It's okay, the highlight of the draft is ahead."

The highlights of baseball games are often in the last few innings, and if the score is bitten very tightly and is cut off, of course, the viewing experience is not good.

But the draft is different. The really interesting content is ahead.

Or maybe it's just the first round.

The draft of professional baseball is not exactly in order or reverse order of team results.

In the first round, all teams have equal options.

And if different teams nominate a player at the same time. It's going to be decided by lot.

The teams selected in the draw will naturally be able to negotiate smoothly.

However, for teams that fail in the draw, they will have to choose one more target from the list of other teams that they have selected in the first round.