Far more difficult to fathom, actually, is how and why Principal Lo came to have a particular passion for baseball (rather than, say, soccer or some other more popular sport) since this never gets explained in the movie. On the other hand, as Weeds on Fire proceeds to show, there's little question of his -- and the pioneering team he coached as well as established-- having played a big part in ensuring that there is at least a part of Hong Kong that's not a city without baseball after all!