Our friend and Lotte Giants Starting Pitcher, Ryan Sadowski, was able to get us some tickets to the season opener last Saturday.
Amy and I sat with some mutual friends, John, Soo, and Jee-un. Ryan managed to get us tickets directly behind the Lotte Cheerleaders stage. The cheerleaders are definitely something to gawlk at. The combination of beautiful women, with 3kg of makeup, and 120 decibels of baseball chanting in your face for three hours is pretty intense....not to mention the fact that their is a baseball game going on.
Jon and Soo....with some pigs feet. The feet were a little chewy, but not bad at all considering.
The Giants played the Han-hwa Eagles. Each Korean baseball team is allowed to sign two international players. Ryan fills one of those spots. The other player is pitcher Bryan Corey...that's right, same name....Ryan, Bryan, and Bryan.....it honestly feels weird to type my name but mean someone else.
Anyway, Corey started for the opener against Han-hwa. I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but the dude pitched really well. He dished out either 7 or 8 shut-out innings, to hand off the mound to the relievers with a score of 6-0...nice way to introduce yourself.
It was a great start to a hopefully fruitful season.
After the game, the five of us met up with Ryan and his charming wife Lindsey for some Shabu-Shabu. Luckily for both of them, Lindsey is able to come live here in Busan for a good part of the season this year.
We're planning on going with a much bigger group of Wehguks (foreigners) to the next Saturday home game versus SK on April 23rd!
Amy, Bryan!
ReplyDeleteThis is soo :D
love these photos~
John and I went to Mokdong stadium last saturday to chant Lotte Giants. Usually third base is for away team, but Mokdong was not. We didn't know that, so we were in the minority seats which was Nexen! Lindsay took a video that we chanted Lotte between Nexen fans,,lol
Anyway i miss u guys and hope we can meet up when I go down to Busan :D