Korea Patch Kid

Last night my brother and I went to Dodger Stadium for the first of three games of which we have tickets to for the World Baseball Classic. The WBC is essentially the World Cup of baseball. Sixteen teams from all over the world have been playing in stadiums all over the world and now the final four teams are playing for the championship at Dodger Stadium. So last night we saw Korea CRUSH Venezuela 10-2. And the winner of tonight's USA v. Japan game will play Korea for the championship. I'll be wearing my red, white and blue jump suit. Anyhow, it was a really great game to be at because it felt like a cultural experience. The Korean population far outweighed any other group so it felt like a home game being played in Korea to some extent.

And while feeling as though I was immersed in the middle of a foreign country while in my own backyard was a lot of fun, one of my favorite parts of the game was conversing with the older couple sitting next to me. They were probably in their late 60s and as we talked I learned they were originally from New York (though their accents gave that away early on). At one point the two of them were arguing over the aesthetics of Dodger Stadium. The husband was talking about how beautiful and classic it was, and the wife was talking about how ugly it was. I chimed in at some point, talking about how much I love Dodger Stadium. I ended my point saying something along the lines of, "Dodger Stadium is the best looking stadium in all of baseball." It then got quiet for a few seconds and I assumed they either didn't hear me or stopped listening. Then after a few more seconds passed the woman leaned in close to me and said, "If you wanna get to Heaven you better stop saying things like that. I'm a Yankee fan." Oh man how I laughed. She then spent some time telling me about how she saw some of the most historic players in Yankee (and baseball) history play at Yankee Stadium as she grew up. Very cool to listen to. I conversed with the two of them throughout the game and they were hilarious. They kept bantering with one another and had a bunch of funny one liners. But the funniest thing either of them said came when Dae Ho Lee came up to bat for Korea. The woman tapped me on the arm and said, "He looks like a Cabbage Patch Kid!" I looked up and she was absolutely right, wouldn't you agree?