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	 Volume 14
	  Chapter 9 (138)
	   Cheese

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(Ch. 9) Cheese

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Newspapers: Unbelievable Ohtake [Senkawa]
	Out of the Park!  Ohtake
	Kunimi's Game-winning Hit
	Ohtake's 160m blast [First-year] [S-]
	OHTAKE

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Arikawa: You sure bought a lot of them.

Ohtake: It's never going to happen again, might as well take advantage of the situation.

Kine: Damn straight.  Next time your picture's on the front page, it'll be as a murder suspect.
	Gahaha!

Ohtake: ...right.

Kine: Doesn't he get jokes?

Noda: Hrmm.

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Radio: South Tokyo, North Tokyo quarterfinals...
	The top two teams in each block, A through D, are duking it out today...

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Hideo: That pitch could have been better.

Pitcher: It's your fault.
	If we had a less reliable thirdbaseman, I wouldn't pitch in that spot.

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Pitcher: I'm not nice enough to let my good fielders get off easy.

Hideo: Sure, sure.

Announcer: Three runs in the first on well-placed hits from Tachibana and Nakai!
	In the bottom of the inning, their ace starter Ichinose mows all three batters down!

Teams: Meiwa Ichi
	Kuradako

Announcer: South Tokyo's top-seeded team in Block A, Meiwa Ichi High!

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Announcer: Meanwhile,
	In North Tokyo's A Block...
	Spring champions Eikyo Academy are the top seed!

Sign: E

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Announcer: Hirota's dignified pitching has only gotten greater since he arrived...
	Five strikeouts in the first six batters!
	Japan's greatest southpaw is perfect this summer!

Shiroyama: Good.
	The battery is in tune, today.
	Right, Ogura?

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Ogura: They're not perfectly in synch.
	Kan the wife is just holding his breath.
	He's afraid of being divorced.

Shiroyama: Heh.

Announcer: There are three other games in North and South Tokyo apiece,
	To decide the Final Four for each sector.

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Announcer: The hot new Senkawa High from B Block, North Tokyo...
	is scheduled to play on the Second Field at 10:30.

Hiro: Shima.
	I won another one of these things from a vending machine.
	Want it for your brother?

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Hiro: Sorry.
	I know, this one is just TOO tasteless.

Shima: No.
	He'll love it, I'm sure.

Hiro: Okay.
	People have their own tastes, I guess.

Haruka: Everyone, look up front!
	I'm going to take a picture.

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Haruka: Cheese.
	(click)
	...and one more.
	Shima-kun didn't smile in that one.

Shima: Only me?

Haruka: Cheese.

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Sign: Thank you for your years of patronage.
	The Management

Flap: Bar Shima

Guys: Huh?
	Whoa,
	did that place go out of business?
	Yeah, it was pretty much empty all the time.

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Guys: Their beer didn't taste bad, though.
	Nah.

Father: Keita.
	Want to go see the baseball game with Dad?

Keita: No,
	they're just going to lose.

Father: No they're not.  Your cousin Katchan is the best pitcher in Japan.

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Keita: Katchan?

Father: Who did you think we were going to see?

Keita: Big Brother...

Keita: Osamu?
	Osamu...  plays baseball?

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Crowd: (zawa zawa)
	(zawa zawa)(zawa zawa)
	(zawa zawa)

Sign: Shima

Ump: Play ball!

Teams: Senkawa
	Himiya

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