Baseball in Korea

No, it's not as strange as Korean Volleyball.

I went to a Lotte Giants (No teams are named after cities just companies) game on Saturday and it was lots of fun. The Giants played the LG Twins, I believe they are from Seoul. Of course the company makes the journey, not the game.

Some exciting things about going to a baseball game is tickets cost 7,000\ for outfield tickets. We had a little scare on a deep fly ball. No gloves in sight only Red Solo cups and beer cans. The last time I went you couldn't bring glass bottles into the game, but now security is forbidding anything with a higher alcohol percentage than beer. Two friends brought in a 26er of Vodka which was no allowed, so they poured it into water bottles and the rest is a blur. Six beers in 9 innings a couple of 1-2-3 innings can do that to you.

The game was an excellent predrinking option, obviously. One thing about Koreans is they have too much pride to heckle the opposition. Drunk foreigners do not. We had some Happy Gilmore moments near the end of the game.

The final score was 4-3 which we saw on the way out because there's only one Jumbo-tron. Gotta love Busch (or Cassuh in this case) league baseball.

Another odd thing is in the stadium there are 3 flags: an American Flag, an Australian flag, and a Lotte flag. For the national anthem they had the Korean flag waving on the Jumbo-tron -  or so I'm told.