Ben Zobrist ‘suspiciously’ drops $6 million divorce lawsuit

Chicago Cubs World Sequence hero Ben Zobrist is again in headlines this week right after dropping a $6 million lawsuit versus his former pastor, Byron Yawn, with whom his spouse Julianna engaged in an extramarital affair.

“It’s a step in the correct course,” Yawn’s attorney, Christopher Bellamy, told the Chicago Tribune. “I’m suspicious for their good reasons but I’m optimistic that he’ll continue to do the proper points.”

The manner in which Zobrist withdrew the assert enables him to re-file in 12 months, but it remains to be viewed if he’ll pursue that training course of action. At least on surface area amount (once more, I am somebody who’s definitely not intimately associated in this week’s courtroom proceedings in Tennessee), it appears a weird shift.

Initially, the 2016 Earth Sequence MVP filed the case in early Could, boasting Yawn’s partnership with his then-wife equated to “intentional infliction of psychological distress.” That is not the only knock on Yawn, either, who reportedly defrauded Zobrist’s Patriot Ahead charity in the sort of a $3,500 month-to-month wage as director, cashing a pair of checks right after staying terminated in the spring of 2019.

In the divorce proceedings, Julianna is searching for an equivalent split of marital belongings and an supplemental $4 million sum – which is derived from the wage she statements Zobrist knowingly forfeit when he stepped absent from the Cubs through the 2019 year to deal with his private lifestyle crashing down all around him.

Chicago Cubs: Hope far more information from the Ben Zobrist divorce circumstance

This total affair has been just definitely brutal – and the information, which I wrote about previous month, are sufficient to make any individual, married or single, awkward. To say the minimum, this isn’t the legacy Zobrist worked his full daily life to go away behind and, with any luck ,, after the dust settles on this, we can welcome him again to Cubs Convention or Wrigley Industry and set it all powering us.

Immediately after all, we’re speaking about a guy who normally did no matter what was requested of him on the baseball discipline. An old-school persona who arrived to the ballpark and floor out at-bats each solitary working day while transferring all more than the diamond defensively, Zobrist was a significant section of the most successful period in modern day Cubs background.

For now, even though, he’ll continue being in the information for this really distinct explanation.