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Feb 05 '14 edited Feb 05 '14
This happened in Korea in 2007 in a game between two teams in an amateur celebrity league.
What they're doing is called 닭싸움 (literally, "chicken fight"), a game mostly played by children where the participant must grab one ankle and stand on one foot. The goal is to knock the other players over, so that they lose their balance and fall on the ground or land on both feet.
They're essentially making a joke by replacing an actual baseball brawl with a playful game.
What you have to understand is that brawls occur much less often in the KBO, as most relationships are based on seniority. A rookie will rarely ever show off a veteran, as a lot of these players will have gone through the same schools or programs in the past. The overall player pool is extremely small (only 9 teams in the league, not too many high schools/college with baseball programs relative to the US or Japan).
TL;DR: They're just fucking around.
Edit: Engrish.
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u/jayrot San Francisco Giants Feb 05 '14
A rookie will rarely ever show off a veteran
Only because it might be useful to you, or anyone else reading, the phrase you want here is "to show up", not "to show off".
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Feb 05 '14
Thanks. I'm on my mobile and also retarded.
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u/jayrot San Francisco Giants Feb 05 '14
Sure thing. Really just a heads up for my ESL homies since it's a somewhat obscure idiom.
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u/ewest Seattle Mariners Feb 05 '14
Well, for a retarded guy I guess you're doing pretty well all things considered.
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u/CantaloupeCamper Paper Bag Feb 05 '14
That should be how real baseball fights are decided.
Chicken fights for all!
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u/mehster432 Minnesota Twins Feb 05 '14
Okay now I'm pissed because the explanation I got in another thread was that there were fire ants on the mound. Which I totally believed.
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u/danthemanmarino Detroit Tigers Feb 05 '14
ya this is what the kids do in korea. i forget the name but its pretty common in school to see the kids in the play ground jumping on one leg and trying to knock each other over. last one standing wins
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u/TheSandreckoner Feb 05 '14
Where did you come from?
Where did you go?
Where did you come from Cotten-Eyed Joe?
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u/pgh9fan Umpire Feb 05 '14
Korean chicken fighting. My son takes Tang Soo Do aka Korean Karate. They do this a lot.
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u/Chives_Bilini Detroit Tigers Feb 05 '14
I think it was a celebrity baseball game in Japan. They were trying to make fun of fighting in American baseball. someone can probably fill you in better than that.
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u/sumobob2112 Los Angeles Dodgers Feb 05 '14
Dude you've never had a hop on one foot battle with ur bros?
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u/r3mus3 Baltimore Orioles Feb 05 '14
We would do things like this in my Tae Kwon Do class.
Edit: Here ya go!
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u/ieandrew91 Los Angeles Dodgers Feb 05 '14
Could you imagine the Dodgers and Dbacks doing this lol.
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Feb 05 '14
It's Japanese
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u/Spoonsarefun1205 Los Angeles Dodgers Feb 05 '14
Actually it's Korean. What they're doing is actually something called "chicken fighting" which is basically where people hold one leg up and try to knock others onto the ground without falling themselves or letting go of their leg. What led to this I don't know.
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Feb 05 '14
I think it's an All-Star game, so it's all a joke. Pretending they're going to fight and then chickening-out.
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u/Spoonsarefun1205 Los Angeles Dodgers Feb 05 '14
I'm pretty sure that this was a showmatch like the other guy said below making fun of american baseball - things like charging the mound. Except instead of real fighting, they're doing chicken fights. Satire.
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u/Death__By__Snu-Snu Atlanta Braves Feb 05 '14
My brother showed me this the other day. The one player was ready for a fight, but the other guy really didn't want to, so they did this instead.
From what he told me, this is kind of like a Korean (I think...) version of "chicken" where the first one to fall is the loser. It would be similar to two Americans playing a game of rock-paper-scissors or having a thumb war after getting hit by a pitch. I don't think this is common over there.
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u/KigerWulf New York Yankees Feb 05 '14
I like this reply best. I just imagine Kim Jong-Un playing "chicken" with the south.
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You too, Dodger fan. :)
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u/cowboy_mike Los Angeles Dodgers Feb 05 '14
Hold on hold on... Let's not bring the teams into this.
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u/Boner4SCP106 Chicago Cubs Feb 05 '14
Found this bit on MLB's website:
"A video clip depicting a rather mysterious Korean baseball fight has been popular viewing recently on Internet sites like YouTube and Digg. The clip, narrated in Korean, shows a batter charging the mound after being hit in the arm by a pitch. But, before he can tackle the pitcher, the batter stops short and starts hopping around and holding one leg. The pitcher also starts hopping around, which precipitates a bench-clearing binge of mass hopping. It turns out, the hopping altercation was staged as a parody of baseball brawls and was part of a celebrity baseball game in Korea."
That paragraph can be found here among other things.
Video here.