Ben Zobrist ‘suspiciously’ drops $6 million divorce lawsuit

Chicago Cubs Earth Sequence hero Ben Zobrist is back in headlines this 7 days after dropping a $6 million lawsuit against his former pastor, Byron Yawn, with whom his wife Julianna engaged in an extramarital affair.

“It’s a stage in the correct route,” Yawn’s lawyer, Christopher Bellamy, instructed the Chicago Tribune. “I’m suspicious for their factors but I’m optimistic that he’ll go on to do the appropriate things.”

The method in which Zobrist withdrew the assert permits him to re-file within just 12 months, but it remains to be observed if he’ll go after that training course of motion. At minimum on surface amount (once more, I am an individual who’s of course not intimately involved in this week’s courtroom proceedings in Tennessee), it seems a strange transfer.

In the beginning, the 2016 Earth Series MVP submitted the case in early May, boasting Yawn’s relationship with his then-wife equated to “intentional infliction of psychological distress.” That’s not the only knock on Yawn, both, who reportedly defrauded Zobrist’s Patriot Ahead charity in the sort of a $3,500 month to month income as director, cashing a pair of checks after getting terminated in the spring of 2019.

In the divorce proceedings, Julianna is looking for an equal break up of marital belongings and an further $4 million sum – which is derived from the salary she claims Zobrist knowingly forfeit when he stepped absent from the Cubs all through the 2019 period to offer with his own existence crashing down about him.

Chicago Cubs: Count on a lot more news from the Ben Zobrist divorce situation

This entire affair has been just certainly brutal – and the information, which I wrote about final thirty day period, are adequate to make everyone, married or unmarried, unpleasant. To say the least, this is not the legacy Zobrist labored his entire life to go away at the rear of and, ideally, as soon as the dust settles on this, we can welcome him back again to Cubs Convention or Wrigley Industry and put it all powering us.

After all, we’re speaking about a guy who always did whatsoever was asked of him on the baseball subject. An previous-school individuality who arrived to the ballpark and ground out at-bats each single day while going all more than the diamond defensively, Zobrist was a important section of the most successful era in fashionable Cubs historical past.

For now, even though, he’ll continue to be in the news for this quite diverse reason.