Personally getting a paid trip to Japan at the cost of a home game seems like a pretty sweet deal to me.  No one on the Barracuda plays for the Japanese national team so the rest of the guys feel largely the same way.  That being said, all of us eat food every day and who doesn't love ramen? Especially the younger guys just coming up from the J eat a lot of it, but I don't think they quite know what they're getting into with the real thing.  It's going to be great to see the reactions from Shawn Pawn, Dag-Otto Bjorntjanst, and Dunkler Sowerwine when the food gets brought out.  Plus as an avid Pokemon lover going to Japan is like a pilgrimage to Mecca.  I think I'll be alone on that excursion, but at this point I've spent enough time talking about ramen that I've got to go snag a bowl for lunch.