Post by Copperfields on Jun 23, 2005 7:50:55 GMT -5
... or, "No cabbage for you!"
According to the Associated Press:
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's love for the cabbage that makes up its national dish, kimchi, apparently doesn't extend to the baseball field.
The Korea Baseball Organization has been moved to rule that wearing cabbage leaves inside a baseball cap constitutes an ``alien material'' that may disrupt a game, prohibited according to the organization's rules, the organization said in a statement Tuesday.
The decision came after Doosan Bears pitcher Park Myung-hwan's cap fell off twice in a game last Sunday, revealing frozen cabbage leaves inside used to keep his head cool. No measures were taken at the time.
``What will we do if another team argues that because the cabbage leaf fell just as the pitcher was pitching, the batter got confused?'' league rules committee chair Heo Koo-youn said, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.
Park said he had planned to give up his unusual cooling agent before the decision.
``I wasn't planning to use cabbage any longer regardless of the decision of the rules committee, so I don't care,'' he told Yonhap.
According to the Associated Press:
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's love for the cabbage that makes up its national dish, kimchi, apparently doesn't extend to the baseball field.
The Korea Baseball Organization has been moved to rule that wearing cabbage leaves inside a baseball cap constitutes an ``alien material'' that may disrupt a game, prohibited according to the organization's rules, the organization said in a statement Tuesday.
The decision came after Doosan Bears pitcher Park Myung-hwan's cap fell off twice in a game last Sunday, revealing frozen cabbage leaves inside used to keep his head cool. No measures were taken at the time.
``What will we do if another team argues that because the cabbage leaf fell just as the pitcher was pitching, the batter got confused?'' league rules committee chair Heo Koo-youn said, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.
Park said he had planned to give up his unusual cooling agent before the decision.
``I wasn't planning to use cabbage any longer regardless of the decision of the rules committee, so I don't care,'' he told Yonhap.