Heh, I agree that ES21 is, despite all of the unrealism and the way it is more crack than TeniPuri, in a way, a much better sports series, because the main team loses so much, and I oddly take the characters much more seriously than the TeniPuri ones. The Devil Bats are in a way such a hard luck team that you end up rooting for them, despite their trash-talking (well, that's only Hiruma, really) image.

[It only gets better! The current arc is 'edge of your seat' nail-biting drama.]