Joining a set that the Korean press have already dubbed the Major League Corps Jose Lima will join Seo Jae-weong, Choi Hee-seop, and another recent foreign signing; Wilson Valdez, as a members of the Kia Tigers.
Lima most recently went 13-4 with a 3.60 ERA while playing for Saraperos de Saltillo in the Mexican League last […]

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To help cement the new My Asian Tattoo Means What?! category comes a baseball-related piece from the Chosun Ilbo, translated by Korea Beat last summer, about Prince Fielder’s tattoo of the word 왕자, which translates to something like “prince.”

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Liquor makers in China are demanding that a city regulation barring public servants and Communist Party officials from excessive lunchtime drinking be revoked. The regulation, launched in January in the city of Xinyang in Henan province, is illegal, according to several of the province’s producers of “baijiu.”
Baijiu is also known as shaojiu, or in Chinese, […]

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