Apparently some sort of baseball tournament is being played in the main stadium of my home town. An international tournament of some sort, with the Americans, the Mexicans, the Japanese, the Taiwanese, and many other countries knocking a few balls around for fun, exercise, and profit.Gee, I wonder how the Korean team is doing.
UPDATE:
It turns out the Korean team did rather well. And of course, Americans in the Korea-related blogosphere are cheering on the victorious Koreans for a job well done, like good sports, rather than engaging in sour-grapes griping and moaning about what poor sports Koreans usually are.
FURTHER UPDATE:
All this gloating and chest-beating by everyone in Korea over some game is getting pretty annoying.
Geez, you’d think they’d just beaten the Russians at hockey or something.
(Dibs on playing the Kurt Russel’s role when the movie comes out twenty-six years from now!)
[photo: No matter what you've heard, the United States is NOT a country that uses sporting events as a proxy for pent-up geopolitical frustrations. And they certainly don't turn these events into national lore, making movie after movie about them, even a generation later. Nope, not the United States. That's only places like Korea. Or Europe.]
Cheering on the victorious Koreans for a job well done, like good sports, rather than engaging in sour-grapes griping and moaning about what poor sports Koreans usually are.
ReplyDeleteWell, they can emotionally afford to be magnanimous about the World Baseball Classic because generally Americans dont really care too much about the Classic. It's like the metric system or soccer.
You might be right, Bluejives, but that comment you quoted was also intended with a tinge of sarcasm.
ReplyDeleteMore than just a few of the comments in that link are -- in the absence of Koreans being poor sports -- complaints about Koreans being poor sports.
Some of them, not all.