恐竜コーシエン、絶滅の危機 Unfair Kosihien Baseball Tournament

 

 

恐竜コーシエン、絶滅の危機

 甲子園高校野球は県を代表しているか

 

Out-of-prefecture Scouting Should be Limited

for High School Baseball Teams

　　What if I told you Koshien High School Baseball Tournament would face extinction like dinosaurs within ten years? We all know that dinosaurs are dead. Likewise, Koshien Dinosaur is on the verge of extinction. The dinosaur fans are no more enthusiastic but losing interest in the hulking fake animal.
　　Koshien Baseball Tournament is no more battle between prefectures, but the battle of wallet. Out-of-prefecture scouting is undermining the fair play spirit. The players no more represent the prefectures they claim.
　　First, fat-wallet schools, especially private high schools, spend plenty of money to scout talented baseball players from other prefectures, make spacious baseball playgrounds, build gorgeous baseball training camps, and afford to employ famed coaches. On the other hand, public high schools whose budgets for baseball teams are limited cannot vie with them. Budget-restricted high schools train their students who are not from other prefectures but from the ones they are located in.
　　Secondly, the above phenomenon is against the fair play spirit. Take a boxing match for example. Suppose boxer A, a small thin sickly man, is going to fight against boxer B, a huge, muscular, well-fed man. Boxer B will surely knock out Boxer B in the first round. This is not fair. Similar things are practiced in Koshien baseball games. A rich high school has a good hand over a poor one. Can this be called fair play?
　　Thirdly, what would you say if a team that represented X Prefecture had more than five players from other prefectures? Does it represent X Prefecture? No, it doesn’t. It represents no particular prefecture, but mixed prefectures. This is not INTER-prefecture, but mingle-mangle baseball games.
　　Wallets should not influence the result of the games. High school baseball players in Koshien Stadium are 100 percent amateur and not professional. If high school baseball teams involve money, the fair play spirit will be ruined. Without fair play spirit, no sports would be interesting, nor attract baseball fans, and eventually lose them. Koshien Dinosaur is a mixed animal consisting of alien bloods. Its extinction has already begun.