Don’t take this as a full-blooded recommendation of the radio show Coast to Coast A.M., which I think is a kind of a  radio version of The National Enquirer, but occasionally the show gives time to someone who just wouldn’t ordinarily get on the air. I mean that in  a good way.  
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Team China has been on an east coast tour, mostly playing teams from the New England Collegiate Baseball League. Yesterday the team beat the Danbury Westerners 19-6 and while the level of competition isn’t what it will face in the Olympics, everyone seems to think Jim LeFebvre’s squad is improving. The team pounded out 23 [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve checked in on Jung Sung-ki, the right-handed sidearmer signed by the Braves in 2002 who was forced to return to Korea and fufil his military service requirement in 2005. Jung started the season at  Double-A Mississippi. The news isn’t very good.
Through 31 innings in 27 games Jung is 2-2 [...]

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Heads up EWC readers: The Iron Chef, our Taiwan-based MVP and Tai-Da University med school braniac, has unleashed a cameo venomous diatribe against Yankees owner Hank Steinbrenner and fans making lame pleas that somehow baseball’s rules and the NL are to blame for Wang Chien-Ming’s recent injury. Duck and cover!
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