You Do Not Take Cheerleaders Away From Korea
Soccer hooligans and drunken Pistons crowds have nothing on the latest bad boys of fandom: those crazy Lotte Giants supporters.
Clearly not taking their team’s poor performance in the Korean Baseball Organization’s playoffs well, fans have turned the Busan-based team’s home games into war zones, complete with riot police walling off the rowdiest of fans. Those fans, in the words of Giants manager Jerry Royce, being “the best I’ve ever seen.”
In game 1 of what the KOREA TIMES calls the “Fall Classic” with a straight face, the Giants were blown out by their archrivals, the Samsung Lions. Fans responded by littering the field with garbage and fighting with Lions supporters.
In response the Lions pulled their cheerleaders from game 2. It was on. (Obligatory cheerleader pic after the jump.)
