KBO thread

[jarman86]

Anyone else watching the games on ESPN?  I've watched a few.  No Major Leagues for sure, but just watching and having Ravech and Perez commentate, plus the additional guests has been fun and I've enjoyed seeing some of the former O's.  Also watched the extra inning game today, thought it interesting that KBO games can end in ties, where they only play 12 innings. 

[DrungoHazewood]

I should look at the other sub-forums more.  I've watched a couple games, have a few more on the DVR.  It's been fun.  Nice to have games where it doesn't look like every pitcher is trying throw the ball through the backstop, and every hitter isn't constantly swinging for the fences.  I like the different batting styles and stances. 

And I've enjoyed the guests the announcers have had on.  A lot of cool perspective, players who have played in Korea, Korean journalists.  I really get into how different cultures deal with things we're familiar with.  It's baseball, but not quite North American baseball and that's cool.

I believe all the major Asian leagues have the 12-inning cap, the NBP certainly does.  While I love the occasional Chris Davis game, probably 95% of fans have tuned out or left the stadium by the 13th inning.  I know this is not a popular opinion, but the obsession with declaring someone a winner leads to bizarro things like running out of players and the game being decided by kind of forced, nonsensical moves.  That's great for Chris Davis and Lenn Sakata, not so much if you're Darnell McDonald and you have a loss by your name in bb-ref forever.  In soccer a tie feels like a more fair and decent result than PKs, which are basically coin flips with huge emotional baggage.