{"id":49366,"date":"2023-05-15T20:56:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T01:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49366"},"modified":"2023-05-15T20:56:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T01:56:03","slug":"someone-is-clearly-a-shinsuke-nakamura-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49366","title":{"rendered":"Someone is clearly a Shinsuke Nakamura fan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit goes to mythical wife for turning me onto this story, but out of the blue she asks me if I\u2019d seen these <\/em>baseball uniforms.\u00a0 Obviously the answer is no, because I\u2019m so buried in either work or parenting that I see practically nothing that isn\u2019t spoon fed to me through social media, and I\u2019m disappointed in the algorithms that didn\u2019t feed me this one, because it\u2019s basically tailor made for my general interests.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the Nippon Ham Fighters of NPB debuted some brand-new alternate uniforms<\/a>, and naturally my first reaction is wtf<\/em>, but very closely followed with the very obvious parallel that these look basically like one of Shinsuke Nakamura\u2019s signature ring attires.\u00a0 I mean come on, the two-tone red and black everything, the plunging V neckline with the weird collars on it, it\u2019s straight up Shinsuke Nakamura all over it.<\/span><\/p>\n

It turns out that these uniforms were \u201cdesigned\u201d by manager Tsuyoshi Shinjo, who\u2019s a pretty flamboyant guy in his own right, but I think it\u2019s safe to assume that he\u2019s probably a Shinsuke Nakamura fan, because there\u2019s absolutely no reason at all for a design like this to ever manifest from a baseball brand whose colors are primarily blues and golds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, upon seeing these horrible uniforms, it was inevitable that I couldn\u2019t avoid brogging about it, as well as photoshopping Shinsuke Nakamura onto pictures of the team in these hideous kits.\u00a0 But apparently, new uniform luck still applies to these as well; from what I understand, the starting pitcher for the debut game ended up throwing a complete game shutout.\u00a0 Perhaps the Lotte Giants hitters were confused about stepping into a batters box against a professional wrestler, and by the time they realized they were up against a pitcher, they were already behind in the count.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe Shinjo can go ahead and get started with designing the kits for the 2027 World Baseball Classic, because nothing would be a bigger power move than seeing Japan\u2019s best players winning another WBC, all while cosplaying as Shinsuke Nakamura.\u00a0 Imagine Mike Trout and Bryce Harper striking out to Shohei Ohtani wearing this get up<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Legend status.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Credit goes to mythical wife for turning me onto this story, but out of the blue she asks me if I\u2019d seen these baseball uniforms.\u00a0 Obviously the answer is no, because I\u2019m so buried in either work or parenting that I see practically nothing that isn\u2019t spoon fed to me through social media, and I\u2019m … Continue reading Someone is clearly a Shinsuke Nakamura fan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,62,100,203,58,54,49,55],"class_list":["post-49366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-art","tag-baseball","tag-comparison","tag-marketing","tag-sports","tag-wrestling","tag-wtf","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49368,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49366\/revisions\/49368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}