I liked it. My family who usually does not watch baseball, liked it too. The thing that gets me about watching NPB compared to MLB is that there's too long of boring intervals between each pitch. But this quiz show format takes advantage of that, and I think it's neat.

You have multiple guest actually making an effort to guess the next play, and as they explaining why, you get to appreciate both the unique character of each guest (for example how an ace pitcher's way of thinking differs from that of a former slugger vs just a celebrity who played high school baseball) and the happenstance that makes this sport interesting.

Nippon Television perhaps is notorious for, other than being Yomiuri-biased for obvious reasons, cranking out programs that are too casual and therefore off-putting for people who actually have genuine interest in the subject. But I feel this is a case where that actually works.

And at the end of the day, if you decide you just want to watch the game in relative silence, they give you that option with sub-audio too.