Chapter 2711 The Pursuit of the Warm-Up Match

Baseball is a sport that is very unfamiliar to Chinese people.

Even when we saw on TV, when Americans were crazy about it, there was no sense of involvement.

I even wondered, what's the fun with so many people surrounding such a small ball?

But in a country that really has this kind of baseball culture, if you invest in it, you will love baseball very much.

In the whole world, Europeans don't like baseball, and only the Americas and East Asia really like playing baseball.

Baseball in Cuba, Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan's Taiwan region is very good. However, due to population disadvantages and lack of wider attention, baseball has never been able to become a world-class sport.

However, this is only for intercontinental competitions like the Olympics. Whether it is North America, Mexico, Japan or South Korea, the domestic leagues are in full swing. Players, teams, sponsors, etc. are all making a lot of money. Full.

That's enough.

Just like the sport of ice hockey, it has never been able to participate in big scenes, but as long as everyone can make money and everyone is happy, isn't it great?

Of course, baseball is still more popular than ice hockey. The New York Yankees are the world's top club. In terms of influence, only Real Madrid can match it.

In recent years, Barcelona has become more famous than Real Madrid, but inside and outside the football field, more people still think that Real Madrid is the number one giant.

Just like on the baseball field, although the Boston Red Sox are also very powerful and famous, they are not as influential as the New York Yankees.

Leave this aside.

After Tang Mingxiang bought the New York Yankees Group and privatized it, the New York Yankees were not affected at all, at least on the surface.

Moreover, Tang Mingxiang is now an elite who has experienced business experience. She has just taken charge of such a large sports group. Her best choice is to do nothing but manage the finances, and let this mature team continue to lead. The New York Yankees go forward.

Then waited two or three years. She has fully understood the details of the New York Yankees, so Tang Mingxiang can gradually change the New York Yankees. Turn it into the property of the Xiao family.

Well, it's also her private property.

However, in any case, the New York Yankees are actually Tang Mingxiang’s property in a legal sense, so her decision on the New York Yankees also has practical significance. Many executives and even players are a little worried about their jobs question.

Even the coaches and managers in charge of the competition were a little worried that Tang Mingxiang was like the other investors. Once you bought the team, you started to stuff your own country's athletes into the New York Yankees regardless of their level. At that time, it was a very bad problem.

Fortunately, Tang Mingxiang didn't do this, and the baseball in Huaguo was really disappointing, so what they were worried about didn't come true.

But it also doesn't prove that no one is coming to the idea of ​​playing the New York Yankees.

For example, Sun Zhenyi called and asked Xiao Qi. Let the New York Yankees come to Japan to play a few warm-up games with his Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks before the preseason game in February.

The Japanese baseball league, like the American one, is divided into two different leagues. One is the Central Alliance and the other is the Pacific Alliance. The Fukuoka Softbank Hawks are a team in the Pacific League. They were sold to the Softbank Group by the Daiei Club in 2005. Their performance in recent years has been good or bad, that is, the level of the middle reaches. It is far inferior to the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants and Hanshin Team these two giants.

Sun Zhenyi bought the Fukuoka team for the same reason as Tang Mingxiang bought the New York Yankees, to give himself a bargaining chip in the upper class. Although he invested a lot of money in the past two years, there was no improvement.

Now I see that the New York Yankees were bought by Xiao Qi's wife. He naturally played the idea of ​​the New York Yankees.

If the world's number one baseball giant like the New York Yankees can come to Japan and play a few games with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Whether it is in terms of momentum or actual benefits, it will bring huge benefits to the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks and help the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks enter the giants of the Japanese baseball league.

Xiao Qi readily agreed to Sun Zhenyi's request. It was a matter of little effort, not to mention that the New York Yankees also intend to expand their influence in Asia. Japan, a super-rich country, is naturally one of the targets they want to expand. The higher-ups didn't have this intention, but Tang Mingxiang had such a plan.

Within Japan, the boy only agreed to Sun Zhenyi.

Previously, Teruki Takakawa of SONY approached Xiao Qi, wanting to give the Yomiuri Giants a warm-up match with the New York Yankees, but Xiao Qi refused without hesitation.

Japan's three major newspapers, Yomiuri, Sankei, and Asahi, only the Asahi Shimbun located in the south is friendly to China, and the other two are very vicious. Although Yomiuri is better than Sankei, it is not what a good thing.

Xiao Qi is not a bad guy, you write bad things about my country of China all day long, smearing us, I still want to play games with you, get the hell out of here!

That is to say, Asahi doesn't have its own baseball team, otherwise Xiao Qi would have to arrange a few games for Asahi. People who are friendly to China should be encouraged!

As I said earlier, baseball has a huge market in East Asia. In addition to Japan, there are also South Korea and Taiwan. Baseball leagues are also very popular.

Li Jianxi also called Xiao Qi immediately after Tang Mingxiang bought the New York Yankees, explaining that the Samsung Lions wanted to play a warm-up match with the New York Yankees.

Xiao Qi naturally agreed, and there is another spot in South Korea, which is left to Li Zhenxi to decide.

This matter can improve Li Zhenxi's status in South Korea. After all, it can decide who will play against the New York Yankees, but it means that which team's popularity in South Korea will greatly increase!

So these days, Li Zhenxi can be said to have fallen into trouble.

Youxi, who is 9 years old, is already busy with school and homework. In addition, her second daughter, Yunxi, is less than one year old, and she needs to take care of her all the time. How can she have time to do other things?

Even her own Gmarket company, she has hardly visited, let alone the arrangement of a baseball game.

In the past, Li Zhenxi liked baseball games more, and even went to start the baseball game, but since she divorced her ex-husband, she hated baseball very much and didn't like it at all.

Seeing a group of baseball team managers and the conglomerate giants behind them keep calling to inquire and plead, Li Zhenxi felt that she was getting anxious.

After much deliberation, Li Zhenxi thought of another beautiful star that Li Jianxi gave to Xiao Qi——Han Jiaer.

Xiao Qi told Li Zhenxi everything about Han Jiaer, and expressed his attitude that he would take good care of her for a few years, and then let her regain her freedom.

Li Zhenxi also knows Han Jiaer quite well, knowing that she is a woman with a good personality and a good heart in the entertainment industry, she is somewhat similar to herself, and with the same experience, she has natural sympathy for this little sister.

Since it is Xiao Qi who wants to take care of her, then no one should look down on her, otherwise her fate will be more difficult, so it should be a help to entrust this matter to her, right?

And you can use this to see Han Jiaer's performance, if she behaves averagely, that's fine, but if she behaves well, Li Zhenxi has another plan in mind.

Well, Han Jiaer, who was resting in her hometown to prepare for the Lunar New Year, was "innocently implicated".

After Li Zhenxi revealed that Xiao Qi actually handed over the decision-making power to his other woman, Han Jiaer, Han Jiaer's mobile phone, which was free during this period, immediately entered a busy stage.

Poor Han Jiaer, who answered Li Zhenxi's call but dared not refuse, and then was confused by such a series of calls.

That's not to mention, from the next day, the small town where Han Jiaer lives has welcomed a lot of visitors one after another, including stars from the baseball team, senior executives from big conglomerates such as LG, SK, Kia, etc. Tube.

They didn't say anything politely, but they also brought a lot of various gifts, which directly filled the two rooms of Han Jiaer's house. Her parents were stunned, and her younger siblings were so excited. With a trace of apprehension.

The residents of the small town were also very surprised. They all knew that Han Jiaer was a big star, but they didn't expect her to be so respectable. There were many baseball stars that could only be seen on TV, as well as those high-ranking bigwigs in the business world. , all came to visit with smiles on their faces, which is a rare super high treatment.

Han Jiaer actually knows a lot about baseball, but she doesn't like it very much, so she has no preference as to who will give the remaining one to the New York Yankees warm-up match.

She didn't know what Li Zhenxi really meant, and she didn't dare to make a random decision, so she really didn't want to talk about the entanglement in her heart.

Sometimes she wanted to call Xiao Qi again to ask what she should do, but in the end she still didn't pick up the phone.

It would be great if the Samsung Lions were on the list, then she could justifiably arrange the Samsung Lions, so that no one could say anything, and she would be able to do business.

It's a pity that the Samsung Lions have already been confirmed to participate in the warm-up match, so there is no goal for the second choice.

The other seven teams in the baseball league came over to say hello actively. Benefits, pleadings, bitter dramas... and other methods made Han Jiaer quite helpless, and it was inevitable that there would be a sense of joy in her heart.

Everyone will have such emotions, but when everyone respects you in front of you and tries their best to please you, everyone will feel this way.

It's just that Han Jia'er knows how to control herself, and knows that she can't indulge in such vanity, otherwise she will be useless in the future. This kind of vanity that doesn't belong to her can't last long at all! (to be continued ~^~)