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lol\u2019d heartily<\/a>: while in Seoul, Korea, Los Angeles Dodgers caught on camera marveling and drooling over Korean actress Jeon Jong-Seo throwing out the ceremonial first pitch during an exhibition game between the Dodgers and the KBO\u2019s Kiwoom Heroes<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d get as much enjoyment out of the MLB Seoul Series as I did.\u00a0 I\u2019m so far removed from my general fandom of baseball these days, and I\u2019m so cynical and jaded, that I figured this was all just some typical cash grab by MLB to try and dupe and hoover money out of the Korean market, and that it\u2019s always kind of weird, rhythm-wise when MLB teams play regular season games in Asia during Spring Training, and then come back to wrap up Spring Training before re-embarking on the regular season for 160 more games.<\/span><\/p>\n But then seeing highlights of Freddie Freeman acquainting himself to the Korean<\/a> fans with a blast of a home run, and seeing the Padres\u2019 Kim Ha-Seong coming home and blasting two dingers<\/a> of his own against the LG Twins were pleasant highlights.\u00a0 And then there was the gleefully enjoyable wake-up call on the final day of the trip, waking up and checking the score to the Padres\/Dodgers game to find out that the Dodgers\u2019 $325M acquisition Yoshinobu Yamamoto, got absolutely blown up<\/a>, lasted one inning, and took a monumental L to start his MLB career.<\/span><\/p>\n I mean seriously, there isn\u2019t a better narrative than a Japanese pitcher getting absolutely shelled while pitching in Korea.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure he will settle down and have a very fine season and possibly career in America, but I\u2019ll be damned if I didn\u2019t smile like the Grinch<\/a> upon seeing his woefully embarrassing line for the morning, and knowing he\u2019ll be leaving the motherland with little else than a big-ass L.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the best story of the trip, was undoubtedly the hilarious spectacle of the entire Dodgers roster going gonzo once they laid their eyes on Korean actress Jeon Jong-Seo, taking the hill for the ceremonial first pitch. I mean, I can\u2019t blame all these baseball bros, for most of them, they\u2019ve probably never seen a proper Korean celebrity like Jeon, with her perfect face,* slim figure, legs that go to the moon, and for a Korean girl, she got a little bit of booty.*\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n *most likely surgically enhanced<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n And then she proceeds to hit the target pretty impressively, considering she was kicking off on the wrong side of the rubber.\u00a0 But it didn\u2019t stop pretty much everyone in the Dodgers\u2019 dugout, most visibly Ryan Brazier, Gavin Stone, Gavin Lux from letting their jaws hang to the ground.\u00a0 And hilariously extra were Tyler Glasnow, Chris Taylor and surprisingly, the happily married Freddie Freeman from staring a little too hard at Jeon.<\/span><\/p>\n But to me, the best part about the whole thing is that if there was going to be a singular winner of the entire Seoul Series, it\u2019s definitely #96 for the Dodgers, Landon Knack, who was the guy who caught the first pitch from Jeon, but also got to take his photograph with her afterward.\u00a0 Without question, Knack is envy of the entire Dodgers locker room, getting to be the guy that got to get up close with the Korean bombshell, and even put a hand on her, during the photograph.<\/span><\/p>\n The thing with ceremonial first pitches is that with 162 games plus exhibitions and playoffs for some, there are a whole lot of ceremonial first pitches in a season.\u00a0 Every now and then, it\u2019s going to be a legitimate A-lister or powerful figure, but for the most part, it\u2019s going to be like the local Wells Fargo regional office\u2019s VP\u2019s son type of guys throwing out the lion\u2019s share of ceremonial first pitches throughout a year.<\/span><\/p>\n The rule of thumb typically is that the bigger the celebrity or figure it is throwing out the first pitch, the higher caliber of player will be behind home plate waiting to catch the ball.\u00a0 When George W. Bush threw out the first pitch, Ivan Rodriguez caught him.\u00a0 When Pedro Martinez returned to Boston after being inducted into the Hall of Fame, David Ortiz caught him.\u00a0 The list goes on and on, where depending on the level of celebrity, the higher the caliber of player is waiting to catch it.<\/span><\/p>\n And it\u2019s clear that the Dodgers weren\u2019t made aware of who was throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in their exhibition with the Kiwoom Heroes, because they sent a guy with the number 96 out to go catch.\u00a0 Because the rule of thumb is that the higher and wonkier the number is in Spring Training, they\u2019re younger minor league guys who are actively in a tryout phase with the team.\u00a0 I actually had to Google the Dodgers\u2019 40-man roster to even find out who #96 was, and I still have no idea who Landon Knack really is.\u00a0 His minor league numbers look promising, and I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll have a new number at some point this year, but the truth is that he was the low-man on the totem pole, thrust out there to do grunt work.<\/span><\/p>\n Clearly the mainstays of the Dodgers couldn\u2019t be bothered to go out and catch a ceremonial first pitch, so they sent Landon Knack to go do it, and gee golly I\u2019m sure Knack couldn\u2019t have been happier to do the duty when he saw Jeon Jong-Seo step onto the field and take the mound.\u00a0 Without question, if any of the players knew who was throwing it, and what Jeon Jong-Seo looked like, we probably would\u2019ve seen Tyler Glasnow or Chris Taylor fighting over who would get to catch.<\/span><\/p>\n Unsurprising, as soon as the Seoul Series was over, Knack was immediately cut and sent down to the minor leagues to start the year, because anyone wearing a number higher than 70 typically is, unless they\u2019re one of the baseball edge lords that asks for a high number.\u00a0 Regardless of if he gets called up or not, gets hurt or not, Landon Knack is definitely going to have a core memory from his brief trip to Korea.\u00a0 And his teammates will always be green with envy when he inevitably makes his picture with Jeon Jong-Seo his phone\u2019s lock screen, and gets to flash it around when he\u2019s called back up to the majors.<\/span><\/p>\n Without question, Landon Knack definitely won the Seoul Series, and MLB players probably will remember this the next time they\u2019re sent out to Korea for any exhibitions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" lol\u2019d heartily: while in Seoul, Korea, Los Angeles Dodgers caught on camera marveling and drooling over Korean actress Jeon Jong-Seo throwing out the ceremonial first pitch during an exhibition game between the Dodgers and the KBO\u2019s Kiwoom Heroes Honestly, I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d get as much enjoyment out of the MLB Seoul Series as I … Continue reading Landon Knack won the MLB Seoul Series<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,100,81,205,103,83,58],"class_list":["post-49857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-comparison","tag-girls","tag-mlb","tag-motherland","tag-observations","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49859,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49857\/revisions\/49859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}