The rating for Hot Stove League continues to increase every week and it's not hard to see why. This baseball drama has done a great job. You can see some really good acting here and with more negotiations this week, it all builds up to a pretty intense finale that leaves things wide open for the next episode.
In the latest broadcast, episode 8, Hot Stove League starts with Se-Young lashing out, breaking off the contract with Yeong-Ju and they're determined that they won't re-sign a contract with him given how disrespectful his actions were.
There were some awkward comments about how cheap Seung-Soo's trousers are Se-Young then heads back to the office while Seung-Soo decides to take a break and head off to Seoul. Once there, he had a small talk with the head coach of Vikings they were talking about the different players he's interested in signing.
Regretting the choices he's had to make, Seung-Soo calls a journalist and requests an article being written regarding the team. That article is published around the team falling apart which gets the Junior Managing Director in a lot of trouble with the Director. He immediately went down and confronts Seung-Soo who stands tall and questions the Director over his desire to make them fight over such a small amount of money.
What's even more frustrating for him because he won the fight and worse, he is now being forced to go without being paid just to help make the team succeed. This conflict does the world of good too, as the Director caves and allows them to increase the wages for all the different players. This increase, as it happens, allows Jin-Woo to change his opinion and sign.
That evening, Chang-Joo's interview is aired on TV but as Se-Young watches, she notices something not good and calls Seung-Soo to let him know. Although Seung-Soo tries to steady the ship and requests they leave things and focus on baseball, the Junior Managing Director takes this opportunity to dive into the chaos and make this story to his own liking. He directly brings Seung-Soo into his office and asks for his voluntary resignation, pointing to the door where we leave things wide open moving forward.
Hot Stove League made big noise this week and with lots of drama throughout. This Korean drama is immediately becoming one of the must-watch dramas of the week.
This SBS's drama "Stove League" is really going strong! According to Nielsen Korea, it stated on the January 10 broadcast of the drama that has recorded 12.2 and 14.9 percent viewership nationwide, hitting yet another personal best in ratings. The drama peaked at 17.1 percent in its most-watched minute.
