Playback ’04] 10 times as many fans as the previous year flooded into the camp! Tsuyoshi Shinjo, who joined Nichi-Ham from MLB, in his “first camp appearance”!
What did “FRIDAY” report 10, 20, or 30 years ago? In “Playback Friday,” we revisit the topics that were hot at the time. This time, we will report on “Tsuyoshi Shinjo of Nichi-Ham: ‘I want you to look at my buttocks’ is still weird⁉” from the February 20, 2004 issue, which was published 20 years ago.
Most of the professional baseball teams started their training camps on February 1 this year, and Tsuyoshi Shinjo, the third-year manager of the Japan Professional Baseball Team (NPBT), has been reported daily to be riding his favorite red electric kickboard around the campsite in Nago, Okinawa, Japan. Shinjo was also seen looking a little “weird” at the 2004 camp when he joined Nippon Ham after returning from the MLB team.
He was wearing a Dolgabas summer sweater and sandals…
As expected, he was the only one who was flying off the handle from day one.
Tsuyoshi Shinjo, then 32, of Nippon Ham, said of the highlight of the 2004 camp: “I want you to look at my butt.
I want you to see my butt. During training in Hawaii, I would practice for four to five hours and then burn my butt.
Butt hey ………. When he was with the Hanshin baseball team, he stubbornly refused to do weight training because he thought it would ruin the lines of his lower body, and he had an extremely picky eater who ate snacks as his staple food. Well, I guess playing in the majors has helped him grow up, both in his hips and in his heart.
The flamboyant performance began when he arrived in Okinawa, his campsite, on January 31. Shinjo showed up at the airport on a separate flight from his teammates wearing an unconventional outfit: a Dolce & Gabbana summer sweater (180,000 yen) and sandals. The 500 fans waiting for him were astonished.
