Variety shows on the show? The atrocities of the strongest baseball without fundamentals, why did Lee Jong-beom do the worst
Jun 28, 2025
|
Before the shocking news became official. Rumors spread in the baseball world that `Coach Lee Jong-beom is going to be the strongest baseball manager in a baseball entertainment program.' Baseball officials who heard the rumor responded, "'Does this make sense?'
KT announced the termination of its contract with coach Lee Jong-beom on the 27th. Coach Lee said he would leave the team because of KT's recruitment of the strongest baseball, and the club tried to dissuade him for the first time in his life, but to no avail. KT manager Lee Kang-chul would have been embarrassed, but after consulting with the club, he concluded that he should send him well because he has already left his mind.
Baseball entertainment programs have been popular since 2022. It was very popular by recruiting coach Lee Seung-yeop and starring a large number of retired star players. It has made a great contribution to attracting younger generations who were not interested in baseball, and the KBO League is soaring in popularity to the extent that it recently exceeded 6 million spectators for at least one game in history. Amateur players who played in the strongest baseball are also attracting attention by joining professionals. KBO clubs responded to the strongest baseball, second-tier games, and even first-tier players.
However, the strongest baseball eventually crossed the line. The producer, who first produced the strongest baseball, and JTBC, a broadcaster, had a conflict, and a strange competitive structure was drawn as the producer took the existing cast members to create a new program called 「Fireworks」. Strongest baseball would also have had to set up a cast that would not be pushed back by firework baseball while deciding to produce a new season, and as a result, he made a mistake of contacting coach Lee Jong-beom in the middle of the professional baseball season.
It is known that the strongest baseball team did not ask KT for any understanding in the process of recruiting coach Lee. Even in the offseason, it is a long-standing practice in the baseball community to ask for understanding from the team first when taking other team coaches. In addition, unless there is a vacancy in the coach's seat during the season, coaches are rarely removed from teams that have already set up for a season. It is that careful because it affects the power of each team. In that sense, the strongest baseball committed a crime that was not fundamental in the baseball world.
The coach who responded cannot avoid the arrow of criticism. Officials in the baseball community said, `It's ridiculous that coach Lee is going to the strongest baseball team. Is it possible to do this?" No one said it was an understandable move. The view of the baseball community is that it is difficult to understand any reason.
|
|
Last year, he briefly took off his coach uniform for his son Lee Jung-hoo and lived together in the U.S. KT was the club that reached out to coach Lee, who had a break. Everyone knows that coach Lee, who is a senior at Gwangju Jeil High School, even made an absence from the team ahead of this season and brought him in.
Some say that coach Lee's position in the team was narrow due to the background of leaving KT, but it is difficult to understand that he will leave for entertainment programs during the season. It's only been three months since it opened. Coach Lee, who led the recruitment of coach Lee, has also stopped standing.
The baseball community evaluates that coach Lee made the worst move. Who would recruit a coach who left irresponsibly during the season. It is not an exaggeration to say that it has laid the foundation for professional baseball, but the shock is not going away easily because it was done by a star.
Because he is a coach, it is hard to guess that it is because of the treatment. The annual salary of professional baseball leaders is higher than that of ordinary office workers, but it is a thin salary for star-turned-players who earned billions of won. Still, leaders who have dreams of becoming a coach hang in there and remain.
If coach Lee wanted to become a professional baseball manager someday, he shouldn't have made the same choice as he is now. The baseball community believes that the moment they joined hands with the strongest baseball team, coach Lee's professional leadership career is virtually over.
|
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
