The following was taken from the Chosun Ilbo and translated by Lee Jung Min author of GoOttersGo!.com:
Kim Yong Hee
Chosun Ilbo
Gwangju---The Otters are forcing the Boozehounds to rethink their strategy late in the ballgame as they enter the 7th inning with a comfortable lead. "We aren't drinking the kimchi-water before eating the rice cakes," manager Whit Altizer said quoting a famous Korean proverb, "but we are making the Boozehounds look like a dish of octopus tentacles squirming for answers." Answers won't be easy to find for the Boozehounds with an Otters team that is as well oiled as an ajumma's(old woman's) oxcart full of persimmons.
Though the Boozehounds followed the playbook written by Sam Kirby of the Meerkats last week, the hole in the line-up at shortstop isn't bearing the same fruit as it did for Kirby who, without a shortstop, crushed the Baton Rouge Biscuits. "So, having Rollins out isn't working in our favor," Boozehounds manager Andy Harrison told The Bigs Insider this week, "who knew the Otters actually had a backbone?"
Last week, the Kia fans rejoiced in the street having acheived two victories after an Otters win and a Biscuits defeat. Fans made signs reading "Altizer is a handsome genius guy!"; "Altizer has a tiger heart and a fish's cunning!" and less loving ones like "Joey Abel shows a duck foot."(same as "He lies") and scathing "Jabel=Japanese!!" Several weeks ago Abel set off an Anti-Abel and American sentiment across the peninsula after drafting the beloved Shin Soo Choo out from under his home country Kia Otters.
But things look bright for the Otters two weeks into their season and Korea expects continued excellence. But for the Boozehounds and Harrison, it may be time to think about an old Korean proverb "After losing a cow, one repairs the barn."
Fighting Otters!!!
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