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.

Korean Police Separate Fans

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.)

Korean Baseball Cheerleaders

(When one mentions cheerleaders, one must show cheerleaders)

Giants fans brought out the laser pointers to distract opposing batters, and when the Lions’ manager came out to complain, they chucked a water bottle at him.

Clearly whoever threw it did not remember former major leaguer Felix Jose, who when playing for Lotte in 1999 responded to being hit with a water bottle by hurling his bat into the stands.

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