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	 Volume 24
	  Chapter 2 (230)
	   What Idiocy Is This?

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(Ch. 2) What Idiocy Is This?

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[The Autumn High School Baseball Tournament, Tokyo Preliminaries...]
[Block 15.]

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Hiro: Nice play there, Inoue.

[Representative, Senkawa High School.]
[And...]

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[Winners of Block 4, Eikyo Academy...]
[All in all, 20 winners in total, each of them talented powerhouse schools...]

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Hiro: Meiwa Ichi's not there?
	What idiocy is this?

Noda: Meiwa Ichi's not there?!
	What idiocy is this?

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Hideo: C'mon guys,
	chill out.

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Hideo: We're just coming to grips with it, ourselves.

Hiro: How can you lose in the blocks?

Noda: You're the summer champions, for now.

Hideo: Not just summer.
	We're the best in Japan!
	Here.

Hiro: Ooh,
	a new adult video, for me?!

Hideo: Shut up!
	Follow the conversation, for goodness sake.

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Hiro: What's this,
	the video starts with you guys in trouble?

Hideo: No,
	this is right after the ump said "play ball."

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Scoreboard: Izumi Daisan
	Meiwa Ichi

Hiro: ...is it just me,
	or is this guy looking paler and paler?

Hideo: You got it.
	He threw up everytime he came back to the bench.

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Hiro: He gets lightheaded and nauseous when he feels stares on him?

Hideo: Yeah.

Hiro: And you just threw away this game so you could help him get over that?

Hideo: We didn't throw it away.  We risked it.

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Hideo: Any of our other pitchers would have gotten us through the game.
	But,
	in order for Meiwa Ichi to remain Meiwa Ichi,
	in order for us to be capable of winning a national tournament,
	we need a pitcher that can carry the team.

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Hiro: I'm surprised he didn't ask to be taken out after all those runs.

Hideo: He promised to quit the team if he couldn't pitch the whole game.
	We were going to score back every run he gave up.

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Scoreboard: Izumi Daisan
	Meiwa Ichi

Noda: Geez,
	you guys are swinging for the fences with runners on.

Hiro: You definitely lost your poise.

Hideo: Yeah.
	As well as the poise to ignore the crowd.

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Noda: He's crying as he pitches.

Hiro: ...yeah.
	Those are some amazing fastballs.
	Jeez.

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