The most interesting garment I saw at a Dodgers game
Here is a guy wearing a shirt covered in images of Shohei Otani's face:
I saw a lot of interesting garments at the July 2nd Dodgers game in LA - the "One Piece night" game - but this was possibly the best one I found.
If it seems like I am doing a lot of tourist stuff in LA all at once, I am - this is the kind of thing that happens in the summer when you live in a big city and all your relatives want to visit the city at the same time all your friends are having blowout birthday parties and celebrating the 4th of July and stuff. It becomes Tourist Time in your hometown.
This is also Anime Expo weekend, so it was very wise of the Dodgers to do their big anime night at the same time all the nerds were in town. We saw a ton of people in their own One Piece gear.
The main draw for a lot of people was, I think, the One Piece card game cards they gave away at this event. These are rare; the ones from last year's One Piece game are now selling online for thousands of dollars. We spent the entire evening getting asked, over and over again, whether we were selling our cards. At the start of the night I was getting offered $100 per card; at the end, someone offered me $800. I understand it is possible to sell last year's One Piece cards for over $2000.
Here is a photo of, I suspect, people negotiating over cards:
If this is you and you weren't hustling, I apologize. You looked exactly like everyone else who was.
We were also given straw hats:
We were at last year's One Piece game, but didn't get straw hats OR cards, because we entered through the doorway closest to the bus shuttles. It had run out of giveaway items early. It was a terrible feeling to be roaming around without a hat while everyone else had one. This time we were finally within the in-group.
Anyway... the Dodgers won. The mood was great. However, the Dodgers won by so many points that everyone started leaving early, which meant they missed the One Piece drone show:
I have been to see the Dodgers maybe four times since Shohei joined the team, and I still haven't seen him hit a homer. This is my only complaint about the Dodgers thus far: that Shohei, the crown prince of baseball, still hasn't hit a homer in my presence, for me, personally. I will continue recording video of all his at-bats until I finally get him on my phone.