Ok, so I went to another baseball game yesterday afternoon. It was pretty awesome again, and we had some decent seats in the upper deck. By upper deck I mean directly behind home plate, but a story up. We had a great view of the field and could see everything, including the cheerleaders and jumbotron this time.
The first difference I noticed was the entrance: It had a ramp and wasn't just a door in the back of the stadium. We had to walk up the ramp, show and then scan our tickets, and then walk up another ramp to get to our seats. On our way there, there were a ton of food stands, some with french fries, lots with coffee, and one with delicious rice balls (more on that later). There was also a Bears shop, cell phone accessory Kiosk, a KFC, BK and GS 25 all next to each other in this main plaza. There was also a full Dunkin' Donuts there, for all your ballpark coffee needs.
We then walked up our ramp to our seats, which were the yellow seats. There were KFCs, BKs and GS25s all around the deck. This was actually a nice change from having to leave the stadium to get food, now we could eat without having to get stamped. Also, the lines were much shorter when you have two convenience stores less than 50 meters from each other. AND the prices inside the stadium were no different than outside the stadium. It was heaven.
The cheers when the Bears are at home were different because the Bears got their walk up songs. Those were pretty funny. In the Ayer by Flo Rida, a Blink-182 song, and AXEL-F from Beverley Hills Cop, and a few other crazy songs. These songs were hilarious because they were very unexpected, and it was also pretty funny to hear Koreans pronounce "Ayer" because the hard R sound doesn't exist in the Korean language. There were also two new cheers to the tune of the song The Smurfs sing (The one where they go La-La), and Mary Had a Little Lamb. Two songs that do not bring getting pumped up to mind. But I have no right to judge because I have no idea what the lyrics meant. As an American however, if The Smurfs song came on, I'd probably be too preoccupied with Gargamel's plots than to keep my eye on the ball.
The Lotte Giants, the visiting team from Busan also had cheers to Pretty Woman, We're Not Gonna Take It, and best of all the verse from Cum on Feel the Noize. Not the chorus, the verse. It took me forever to pick out the tune, but the "I don't know why, I don't know why" eventually popped into my head. Why pick the verse to a hair metal song whose title is the chorus? It made very little sense, but seemed to keep the Giants team fired up.
I got hungry and went to the rice ball stand for food. I really didn't want to spend a lot of money on Burger King, which was cheaper in America, so I decided to get more Korean ballpark food. This time I was somewhat disappointed, then excited. I got 5 pre-selected rice balls for 11,000 KRW, which comes out to $9.90. Not too bad for a shitton of food. The reason I got disappointed is because the first one I had was the anchovy rice ball. There were a ton of those guys inside that rice ball, which was about the size of a tennis ball. I just wasn't expecting to eat about 50 whole little fish at a baseball stadium, but now I know for next time. The Spam one was delicious, as were the kimchi and tuna ones.
Also, there was a Kiss Cam. This was actually pretty unexpected. I see Korean couples holding hands all the time, but not nearly as many public kisses. Lots of that stuff is kept behind closed doors or done in clubs, so I was pretty surprised about this. There were also only 3 kisses shown, all with people who were clearly couples. None of the awkward hand waves and nopes from the woman while the guy looks all sad (those are the WORST to watch by the way). They all seemed pretty reluctant to kiss, but eventually did so. Then there was a commercial for a bank featuring the kiss cam where a girl kissed a cute guy she wasn't there with. RACY!!! At least for Korea.
Then there was the best competition ever. They found two cute single women, one from each team's fan section, gave them a beer and a straw and had a chug off on the jumbotron. The stadium was going nuts, I was going nuts, and these women were destroying beer through a straw. It was hilarious. Of course, the Bears won the contest and the winner got a 30 rack of Cass beer. I am never coming home. This country is magical.
Then there was the obligatory part where the cheerleaders did an extremely sexy dance to the new Sistar song. If you don't know Sistar, look them up. You won't be disappointed. They were wearing the "Risky Business" outfit; a dress shirt and seemingly no pants. In the middle of the dance they took off the shirts to reveal a REALLY short dress underneath. Judging by the cheers from the crowd at that moment, there are some things all men on earth enjoy.
Aside: Have women seen Risky Business? Do they know it's about Tom Cruise becoming a pimp and running a whorehouse out of his suburban home to cover the damages sustained to his parents' Porsche? I find it ironic that girls not only cross dress, but also dress as a pimp in order to be sexy. But hey, that's just me being a weird lover of 80s movies and the crazy world of women's Halloween fashion.
TL;DR-
Korean baseball has some weird ass cheers, a shitton of beer, lots of cute women and and lots of cute beer drinking women. America can learn a thing or two from our allies on the peninsula.
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