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Former Lotte catcher Tomoya Satozaki appeared on Fuji TV’s “Pokapoka” on the 13th and revealed that the Chiba Lotte Marines are the only one of Japan’s 12 pro baseball teams with zero players who have married a female TV announcer. The comment was his comeback to swimmer Kosuke Hagino’s jab that “baseball guys get all the luck with women.” On 5ch, posters pointed out that Hanshin shows a similar pattern, while others pushed back by naming players like Saburo and Shun Yamaguchi who married other kinds of celebrities instead of announcers — and some questioned the whole premise that marrying a TV announcer is even a valid yardstick for popularity.
Fri, Nov 13, 4:24 PM
Former Lotte catcher Tomoya Satozaki (50) appeared as a guest on Fuji TV’s “Pokapoka” (weekdays at 11:47 AM) on the 13th, where he revealed details about the marriage track record of Lotte players.
Kosuke Hagino, who won gold in the men’s 400m individual medley at the 2016 Rio Olympics, remarked that “soccer and baseball guys have it unfairly easy with women.” Satozaki shot back, pushing his own face right up to the camera: “You think I’m popular with women?! You think everyone’s popular just because they play baseball?!”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
You mean comedian Taihei Saburo?
Chiba's got plenty of good-looking guys and gals though
That's literally what I'm saying about myself
Apparently Kansai stations tell their female announcers not to marry Hanshin players
the fans are supposedly way too intense
Yeah, can't think of any~ Way back, the team's cleanup hitter at the time supposedly married singer Chiyoko Shimakura, and Tabuchi married Janet Hatta, but that's about all that comes to mind
Has anyone actually married an announcer?
Hanshin fans have screws and springs flying loose in their heads, but the players themselves are solid, steady guys.
When Kakefu got arrested for drunk driving in 1987, team owner Kuma said:
"A railway company employee getting caught drunk driving is a disgraceful act."
"Kakefu is a defective product."
"As long as I'm alive, Kakefu will never, ever become the Tigers' manager."
Newspapers love to preach that "the press should be society's watchdog,"
yet when it's their own people's scandal, they go soft as butter.
Fujiwara isn't married yet, but he's had a girlfriend since high school
He married model Moe Oshikiri while he was with Lotte
Tsuyoshi Nishioka married Naoko Tokuzawa (later divorced)
If you drop the "must be a TV announcer" rule, you could say they do fine with models
Hard for reporters to make the trip out often, right?
If anything it's pretty close lol
By that logic what happens to the Kansai, Kyushu, or Hokkaido teams?
Nope
it's because Shimoyanagi screwed up
What about before Shimoyanagi?
They got divorced, and he got cut by Chunichi this year after being traded there
The AKB girl found herself a good one in Yamaguchi too
He hadn't quite broken out results-wise yet when they got married though
A bona fide, "pedigreed" celebrity is still a rare catch though
Apparently once a Lotte player finally marries a TV announcer, the Showa era will truly be over for them lol
According to Satozaki lol
That commercial became a huge hit
and the company behind it shot straight up to become an industry giant
Almost 20 years later,
that player's daughter became a member of AKB48
The pay was that good, huh, Kuramochi-san
Apparently once a Lotte player finally marries a TV announcer, the Showa era will truly be over for them lol
According to Satozaki lol
Saburo — Michiyo Nakajima
Yamaguchi — Aika Tada of AKB48/HKT48
Boom, case closed!
No point flexing with names nobody's ever heard of
Background and Key Points of Debate
Marrying a TV announcer has long been treated as a kind of customary symbol of success for pro baseball players, with marriage reports involving Giants and Hanshin players repeatedly making headlines over the years. What split opinion in the thread was how seriously to take Satozaki’s remark: some pushed back by citing players like Saburo and Shun Yamaguchi who married celebrities outside the announcer world, arguing this doesn’t mean Lotte players are unpopular, while others pointed to circumstantial factors like the team’s home being in Chiba, far from central Tokyo. Worth keeping in mind: “not married to a TV announcer” and “unpopular” are two different things that shouldn’t be conflated, and Satozaki’s comment itself was just a lighthearted comeback to Hagino — not the result of any rigorous survey of marriage counts across all 12 teams.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Hochi+) thread “Tomoya Satozaki: “Lotte Is Even Less Popular,” “Lotte Is the Only One…” — Reveals Zero Marriages to TV Announcers Across All 12 Teams.”
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