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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
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 Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 2:24 am Post subject: Drunken fan attacks umpire in middle of baseball game |
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Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltuF4vU9JGE
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2014/05/511_156514.html
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A man, apparently not happy with an umpire’s call in a baseball match, jumped over a fence to strangle him.
The man in his 30s flashed himself in front of the whole crowds during a Wednesday match between KIA Tigers and SK Wyverns at Gwangju Kia Champions Field, JoongAng Ilbo reported Thursday.
His target was the first base umpire, who apparently didn’t know how to satisfy every single one of the baseball fans in the stadium, including those who were drunk.
The surprise erupted during the seventh inning, as KIA was trailing by 3-6.
The incident ended as KIA’s first baseman Brett Pill, a coach from SK and several security guards grabbed a hold of the man.
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 4:49 am Post subject: |
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The man in his 30s flashed himself in front of the whole crowds during a Wednesday match between KIA Tigers and SK Wyverns at Gwangju Kia Champions Field, JoongAng Ilbo reported Thursday.
His target was the first base umpire, who apparently didn’t know how to satisfy every single one of the baseball fans in the stadium, including those who were drunk.
The surprise erupted during the seventh inning, as KIA was trailing by 3-6. |
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The Korea Times normally has pretty slipshod writing, but that was...that was pretty good right there. |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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Barking up the wrong tree there, really. It's not the umpire's fault. It's KBO's fault for not letting the peasants in Gwangju know that baseball in Korea is kefa.  |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| What that guy did was akin to murder. |
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Speck7
Joined: 05 Sep 2012
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 6:41 am Post subject: |
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| only in Korea. |
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Stain
Joined: 08 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| It's certainly assault, which would mean jail time where I'm from. But, he didn't die, so empathy regarding the man's feelings will stand up in court. |
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| The man in his 30s flashed himself in front of the whole crowds during a Wednesday match between KIA Tigers and SK Wyverns at Gwangju Kia Champions Field, JoongAng Ilbo reported Thursday. |
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| The surprise erupted during the seventh inning, as KIA was trailing by 3-6. |
That is some loaded language use there...lol. |
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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2988665&cloc=joongangdaily|home|online
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Dark days for KBO men in black
Stretch of bad calls culminates in assault on umpire in Gwangju
A headlock in the middle of a game by a drunken fan, abusive words all over the Internet and children who won’t tell their friends their father is an umpire.
It’s going to be a long season for the Korea Baseball Organization’s men in black.
In the top of the seventh inning in Wednesday’s game between the Kia Tigers and SK Wyverns at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field, a drunken fan hopped the fence on the right-field line and got first-base umpire Park Keun-young in a headlock.
Wyverns first-base coach Baek Jae-ho and some security guards separated the two and pulled the perpetrator off the field.
“He looked like he was mad at some calls the umpires made in the game,” said a Tigers spokesman.
The incident occurred after Cho Dong-hwa - with the bases loaded and Kia leading 6-3 - hit a ground ball to second with one out that looked like it might be a double play to end the inning. Park called Cho safe on the play, which was so close even the video replay was inconclusive.
As Tigers manager Sun Dong-yeol came out from the dugout to complain, the hometown fans had expressions on their faces that said, “God, another wrong call?”
It was an ugly end to a bad week for umpires, who made so many wrong decisions in several games that there have been calls from players, analysts and fans to expand the use of instant replay, which is currently limited to disputed home runs.
Another wrong call was made at Champions Field on Tuesday, when Cho of the Wyverns attempted to steal second in the top of the second inning. Second-base umpire Na Gwang-nam called him safe, but a replay clearly showed he was out. The Wyverns went on to score six runs in that inning and wallop the Tigers, 18-5.
Na was replaced with Park Keun-young, who was jumped by the drunken man next day.
The KBO said after the game that Na had been replaced because he showed symptoms of food poisoning, but speculation was that his bad call had something to do with it. Na has been hospitalized since Wednesday, the KBO said.
But it looks like Na isn’t only suffering from food poisoning. “I think he [Na] was traumatized after making the call and seeing tons of abusive messages on the Internet,” said one of his colleagues. “He has been an umpire for about 20 years, and I think he is having the toughest time in his career. I feel very sorry for him and also am afraid of making a mistake like he did.”
The colleague said the replacement was requested by Na himself. “I think he felt huge pressure that he might make another mistake in that game,” he said. “Because he was the crew chief, he decided to work the game even though he wasn’t in good shape physically.”
Most families of baseball players are proud that their son or father plays one of the country’s most popular professional sports, but it is a whole different story for the families of umpires.
“Most of us tell our children not to tell their friends their father is a baseball umpire because we worry about our children being ostracized by friends,” said one umpire, who - naturally - requested anonymity. “If the child is very young, it may not be a big problem, but for those umpires with teenagers, they always worry about them feeling hurt after they read abusive messages about their father. We just advise our children to respond that their father is a worker at a conglomerate when they were asked his occupation.”
Since umpires are under huge pressure and teams and fans never stop complaining, the KBO, which has been skeptical about any expansion of video reviews, is considering making an adjustment.
KBO spokesman Jung Keum-jo, recently said the league is discussing wider use of video reviews next season.
“We are considering many options to develop a good system, and monitoring how Major League Baseball operates its system will be part of the process.”
BY kwon sang-soo [[email protected]]
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Yaya
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| This is nothing compared to what happens at soccer games in South America, like fans attacking players and refs and complete chaos ensuing. |
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Mr. BlackCat
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| dairyairy wrote: |
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2988665&cloc=joongangdaily|home|online
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Dark days for KBO men in black
Stretch of bad calls culminates in assault on umpire in Gwangju
A headlock in the middle of a game by a drunken fan, abusive words all over the Internet and children who won’t tell their friends their father is an umpire.
It’s going to be a long season for the Korea Baseball Organization’s men in black.
In the top of the seventh inning in Wednesday’s game between the Kia Tigers and SK Wyverns at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field, a drunken fan hopped the fence on the right-field line and got first-base umpire Park Keun-young in a headlock.
Wyverns first-base coach Baek Jae-ho and some security guards separated the two and pulled the perpetrator off the field.
“He looked like he was mad at some calls the umpires made in the game,” said a Tigers spokesman.
The incident occurred after Cho Dong-hwa - with the bases loaded and Kia leading 6-3 - hit a ground ball to second with one out that looked like it might be a double play to end the inning. Park called Cho safe on the play, which was so close even the video replay was inconclusive.
As Tigers manager Sun Dong-yeol came out from the dugout to complain, the hometown fans had expressions on their faces that said, “God, another wrong call?”
It was an ugly end to a bad week for umpires, who made so many wrong decisions in several games that there have been calls from players, analysts and fans to expand the use of instant replay, which is currently limited to disputed home runs.
Another wrong call was made at Champions Field on Tuesday, when Cho of the Wyverns attempted to steal second in the top of the second inning. Second-base umpire Na Gwang-nam called him safe, but a replay clearly showed he was out. The Wyverns went on to score six runs in that inning and wallop the Tigers, 18-5.
Na was replaced with Park Keun-young, who was jumped by the drunken man next day.
The KBO said after the game that Na had been replaced because he showed symptoms of food poisoning, but speculation was that his bad call had something to do with it. Na has been hospitalized since Wednesday, the KBO said.
But it looks like Na isn’t only suffering from food poisoning. “I think he [Na] was traumatized after making the call and seeing tons of abusive messages on the Internet,” said one of his colleagues. “He has been an umpire for about 20 years, and I think he is having the toughest time in his career. I feel very sorry for him and also am afraid of making a mistake like he did.”
The colleague said the replacement was requested by Na himself. “I think he felt huge pressure that he might make another mistake in that game,” he said. “Because he was the crew chief, he decided to work the game even though he wasn’t in good shape physically.”
Most families of baseball players are proud that their son or father plays one of the country’s most popular professional sports, but it is a whole different story for the families of umpires.
“Most of us tell our children not to tell their friends their father is a baseball umpire because we worry about our children being ostracized by friends,” said one umpire, who - naturally - requested anonymity. “If the child is very young, it may not be a big problem, but for those umpires with teenagers, they always worry about them feeling hurt after they read abusive messages about their father. We just advise our children to respond that their father is a worker at a conglomerate when they were asked his occupation.”
Since umpires are under huge pressure and teams and fans never stop complaining, the KBO, which has been skeptical about any expansion of video reviews, is considering making an adjustment.
KBO spokesman Jung Keum-jo, recently said the league is discussing wider use of video reviews next season.
“We are considering many options to develop a good system, and monitoring how Major League Baseball operates its system will be part of the process.”
BY kwon sang-soo [[email protected]]
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More shifting of responsibility and victim blaming. Three quarters of this article is about how the umps have been bad this week, implying the drunken idiot was justified. I personally think it's an isolated incident and that there are idiots everywhere. But as with other recent events, it's not the initial issue that is cultural, it's the response to it. Besides the shifting of blame, we can also see the victim mentality on display here. If you don't get what you want it's because you were screwed over. Time and again. |
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Mr. BlackCat
Joined: 30 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| This is nothing compared to what happens at soccer games in South America, like fans attacking players and refs and complete chaos ensuing. |
As I said, I think this is just an isolated incident. But I also fail to see how comparing Korea to developing countries proves that Korea isn't a developing country.
Whenever something like this happens people here use it to show that Korea isn't 'developed' yet (right or wrong) and then others defend Korea by bringing up Uruguay and Kazahkstan, etc.. Ok, great. Korea is on par with those countries. Isn't that the point that the other people were making to begin with? |
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3DR
Joined: 24 May 2009
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Mr. BlackCat wrote: |
| Yaya wrote: |
| This is nothing compared to what happens at soccer games in South America, like fans attacking players and refs and complete chaos ensuing. |
As I said, I think this is just an isolated incident. But I also fail to see how comparing Korea to developing countries proves that Korea isn't a developing country.
Whenever something like this happens people here use it to show that Korea isn't 'developed' yet (right or wrong) and then others defend Korea by bringing up Uruguay and Kazahkstan, etc.. Ok, great. Korea is on par with those countries. Isn't that the point that the other people were making to begin with? |
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3DR
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northway
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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Drunk fans running onto the field isn't uncommon in the U.S. At one Yankees game I recall, it became a contest as every inning another fan would try to reach second base before being tackled.
And all were arrested.
But no one's attacking players or umps. There's more chance of a player or coach attacking a fan who's crossed the line. |
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