‘Crash and fall.’
The recent chaos of the KBO League can be summed up in those two words.
Match-fixing, illegal gambling, taking banned substances, military service scandal, drunk driving, sex scandal, and violation of COVID-19 prevention and control are the hotbed of ‘complicated corruption’, propaganda that gives ‘dreams and hopes to children’ Who would have known that it would become a Korean professional baseball that started with a slogan? A lament comes out of nowhere.
Since 2015, when 720 games per year and 10 teams were established, the KBO League peaked at 8.4 million spectators in 2017. It didn’t pass. In this season, which should be taken as an opportunity for the KBO League, which has not yet fully recovered, it is staggering with various bad news before it even starts.
Following the World Baseball Classic (WBA) disaster, which had no choice but to be evaluated as an easy-going response, Lotte pitcher Seo Jun-won’s allegations of abduction of minors were not enough, and KIA Tigers team manager Jang Jeong-seok’s suspicion of asking for back money, which arose right before the opening, is followed by a series of uncontrollable situations. .
Why did you come to this point? Various diagnoses are possible, but it is not difficult to find out the problem if you look closely at the baseball board (baseball player) that has been allowed to play from little baseball to adult professional baseball.
Let’s turn back the clock for a moment. In 1991, Korean and Japanese professional baseball players selected representative players for the first time in history and held a friendly match. It was the 10th year since the KBO League was launched. The exchange match, named the so-called ‘Korea-Japan Super Game’, was made possible by Lee Yong-il, the first secretary general of the KBO, and was held three times at intervals of four years until 1999.
There are still unforgettable sights. On November 2 of that year, prior to the first game of the Super Game, the Korean players who visited the Tokyo Dome Stadium the day before looked around the stadium and looked around the stadium, not only wide-eyed, but also had a puzzled look on their faces because they could not find a sense of distance. Of course, they adapted well after entering the game the next day, but anyway, Korean professional baseball players experienced the wide world of baseball with the Korea-Japan Super Game as an opportunity. It gave me a platform to run on.
Thirty years later, in March of this year at the WBC, the Korean national team failed to use their strength properly and lost mercilessly to Japan. It was a disastrous result that even gave the impression of retrogression while the river and mountain changed three times. The national team players were incomparably lethargic in terms of not only their skills but also their mental strength compared to the Japanese players. Some absurd players like Kang Baek-ho, who failed to keep even the most rudimentary basics of ‘don’t let your eyes fall on the ball’, appeared. Among reporters covering the field, some coaches of the national team were busy flirting with the players and taking pictures. 먹튀검증
Criticism from public opinion poured in, and there was also an embarrassing incident in which several baseball players in the field fired arrows from behind the backs of the national team. As usual, there were some tips and tricks. For example, the ‘resurrection theory of high school baseball aluminum bangbang’ is one of them. However, it is desirable that the KBO and the Korea Baseball Softball Association hold public hearings and discuss in depth to find a desirable direction for such a claim by Jung-gu Heating.
It has been a long time since players have been driven into infinite competition since they were young. It is an undeniable reality of high school baseball in Korea that high school coaches who neglect the legitimacy of the process and take a back seat to coaching players and bring in promising players from outside to form a team are evaluated as competent leaders.