There Is No Joy In Seoul…

November 28, 2007 at 8:16 am | Posted in Hee-Seop Choi | 6 Comments

For mighty Hee-Seop has struck out.

Slugger Choi Hee-seop of the Kia Tigers has broken up with his fiancée just a month before their planned wedding, according to an interview with Choi in Tuesday’s issue of Sports Seoul.

The sports daily said that Choi, 28, met with fiancée Aya Yasuda, 30, at a hotel in Seoul and agreed to end their engagement.

Choi met Yasuda after being traded from the Chicago Cubs to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2004. She was working as a TV reporter covering the Dodgers.

In March of last year while in Tokyo for the World Baseball Classic, Choi met Yasuda’s parents and got their approval to continue meeting her. They were engaged in Korea last December.

Yasuda is the daughter of Fuyou Group chairman, one of Japan’s 10 largest conglomerates. An accomplished woman with an MBA from the U.S., she now runs a cosmetics business in Japan.

I don’t mean to dump on a guy’s personal life, especially considering I was a big supporter of Choi, and never could understand Jim Tracy’s refusal to give him a shot when the 2005 season was going down the tubes (I still wake up in cold sweats thinking of Jason Phillips and Jason Grabowski playing first base)but… she’s cute, she’s rich, she’s smart, she’s cute, her parents are cool with it, she covered the Dodgers, and she’s cute?

Poor Hee-Seop. Those stats just keep heading south.

– Mike Scioscia’s tragic illness

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…and japanese?!

Comment by James— November 28, 2007 #

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[...] There Is No Joy In Seoul…Yasuda is the daughter of Fuyou Group chairman, one of Japan’s 10 largest conglomerates. An accomplished woman with an MBA from the US, she now runs a cosmetics business in Japan. I don’t mean to dump on a guy’s personal life, … [...]

Pingback by Japan » Blog Archives » Top Osaka officials got free meals at rich events sponsored by ...— November 28, 2007 #

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We always said he had a hole in his swing.

Comment by Mike— November 28, 2007 #

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I hate to dump on the guy, but what is he thinking? If I was single, I would be chatting her up in a second. She has her own money, she is very hot, I think I am smooth enough to get past the gaijin thing….a match made in heaven. Now, to convince the wife we are adopting a 30yo Japanese heiress.

Comment by grabarkewitz— November 29, 2007 #

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Your wife will probably Jiu-Jitsu her little Japanese butt before she’s in sight Torgy.

Comment by James— November 29, 2007 #

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She blew the idea out of the water. No 30yo Japanese heiresses for me. Back to the old drawing board.

Comment by grabarkewitz— November 29, 2007 #

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