{"id":51165,"date":"2026-04-14T19:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51165"},"modified":"2026-04-25T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:30:00","slug":"been-a-rough-year-for-kim-hye-song-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51165","title":{"rendered":"Been a rough year for Kim Hye-song already"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Prior to the season in the WBC, Kim had to be a part of the Team Korea that sure, finally managed to get out of groups for the first time in an eternity, but they also took some embarrassing losses to Japan and Taiwan.\u00a0 Capped off by getting mercy-rule walked-off on by the Dominican Republic to end their run.<\/span><\/p>\n

Comes back to the United States to finish up Spring Training, only to be told that despite hitting .407 with an OPS of .967, he is being sent down to start the season in the minor leagues, citing his WBC commitment taking away from a proper preseason preparation regimen.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t really say anything over social media platforms because I frankly didn\u2019t want to deal with the likely outrage of Dodgers fans, racist weebs and all other pleebs of the internet, but I found it suspicious that Kim would get such rationale as justification to send him to the minors, despite the fact that all of his Japanese teammates were in the exact same boat, and weren\u2019t getting demoted, but that I suppose it shouldn\u2019t be a surprise to see a team full of Japanese players and constantly on the country of Japan\u2019s dick 25\/8 sending their lone Korean teammate away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s one of those things that nobody that isn\u2019t Korean would really understand, and it wasn\u2019t worth the aggravation of triggering the ire of the internet, but it\u2019s definitely something that nobody would be willing to admit to probably being the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, Kim dominates Triple-A because it\u2019s too easy for the caliber of player he is, in spite of the limited Spring Training, hitting .346 with an OPS of .822, and at the very first injury reported to the Dodgers, he\u2019s immediately called back up, where he\u2019s already hitting .308 with a .796 OPS.<\/span><\/p>\n

And six games in is all it takes for Kim to be given the all look same treatment<\/a>, and be mistaken for one of his more famous Japanese teammates, as SNY\u2019s Gary Cohen states \u201cYamamoto looking on\u201d when the camera panned to Kim watching in the dugout.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like I said, it\u2019s slights like these that nobody who isn\u2019t Korean would really understand just how aggravating they can be, and why Koreans like me have these chips on our shoulders when it comes to rolling our eyes at the insufferably weeb-ey excessive praise for anything Japan that Weeb-ey America is so subject to falling for.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tiny, in all fairness, factor to this is the fact that it was from the visiting team\u2019s broadcast, and seeing as how the Mets haven\u2019t had a Korean player since like Koo Dae-Sung, they\u2019re less educated when it comes to disambiguation between Asians, but if I had to put money on it, I can\u2019t imagine that this racist bungling of telling Asians apart hasn\u2019t happened among Dodgers media either.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the point remains it happened, it\u2019s embarrassing for those who were apart of it, from Cohen, as well as the cameraman who put the camera on Kim after being prompted by discussions of Yamamoto.\u00a0 And like most incidents that are insensitive towards Koreans and Asians in general, the backlash for this will be vastly less severe, acknowledged or taken nearly as seriously as if it would be if it involved black people or Hispanics.<\/span><\/p>\n

If it hasn\u2019t happened already, I don\u2019t imaging there will be any sort of apology from Cohen or SNY, and while everyone is laughing about it, I can lighten up and see the humor in it, but also still remain disappointed and feel dejected by the continuous failure of white people and white people media who love to police others and tell them to be better, while continuously failing to take their own fucking advice.<\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter how well Kim Hye-song plays or doesn\u2019t play, if people keep getting him mixed up with the other Chinamen on his own team, I\u2019d rather see him go elsewhere, where he might actually get some fucking respect.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prior to the season in the WBC, Kim had to be a part of the Team Korea that sure, finally managed to get out of groups for the first time in an eternity, but they also took some embarrassing losses to Japan and Taiwan.\u00a0 Capped off by getting mercy-rule walked-off on by the Dominican Republic … Continue reading Been a rough year for Kim Hye-song already<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,100,45,205,103,83,89,58,217,49],"class_list":["post-51165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-mlb","tag-motherland","tag-observations","tag-racism","tag-sports","tag-weebs","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51167,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51165\/revisions\/51167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}