Baseball in Mexico

I thought that baseball in Mexico would be more like baseball in Japan than in the US, with rowdy crowds playing music all game like the Latino section at the soccer games in Salt Lake.  Nope.

At the Tigres de Quintana Roo game this week, the atmosphere was much more like being at an Owlz game.  Since I'm a baseball nerd, this was the highlight of the trip.

First, the seats were cheap.  We got box seats for about ten dollars just next to the visitors' dugout.
 

The concessions at the park aren't sold by the team and the stadium, at least not in the way they are in the States.  Instead, small vendors sell their food, like you'd see at a small-town fair or at an outdoor Mexican market.

I got a Chorizo (like a Mexican bratwurst) from these kind folks along with some delicious and fresh churros from another vendor down the row a bit.

In the picture above you can see that the players' uniforms are sponsored.  Both teams were sponsored by Tecote, which I gathered was beer.  In that way it's like soccer.  But everything was sponsored.  Even the umpires.  Check out the logos on the umpires jersey.

And on the back.

Oh, yeah.  The team also has cheerleaders who come out and dance between innings.  I hadn't noticed.

The Tigres won the game, knocking three home runs in a well-pitched shutout of the first place team from Tabasco.