This is from an ongoing series on Gadling.com about a writer’s trip to North Korea for the mass games. For the most part the series reads pretty similarly to ever other account I’ve read on the subject, and has the, frankly, dumb title of Infiltrating North Korea. (For a much better and even-handed treatment on the subject get a […]

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Don’t see quotes like this too often — even from catchers.
“I want to play catcher and retire as a catcher, but it’s not easy with the Bears because the team requires me to contribute as a hitter.”
Apparently for some one DH just isn’t enough. Perhaps, according to the logic of Hong Sung-heon of the Doosan Bears, there should […]

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Some good stuff from a band called ReTROS, from Beijing. Sounds like a cross between Joy Division and the B-52s. 
Title of the song is “TV Show (Hang the Police)”
The images in the video are compelling, which comes out in the music. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APpmRDHOfbs

(Via Far Eastern Audio Review)

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It’s a dark day for baseball as the long-awaited and feared Mitchell Report officially names names. Some, like John Rocker above, don’t exactly come as a surprise. Others will both suprise and sadden. And fans of Clay Hensley will wonder why the hell he wasn’t a whole lot better than he was if […]

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