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Shin-Soo Choo at the Asian Games

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As Craig Calcaterra points out, if Shin-Soo Choo and his teammates on the Korean national baseball team can win the Asian Games this month, they’ll likely get out of their military commitments to South Korea. Choo, it should be noted, is awesome at baseball. He is one of the top handful of hitters in the Majors, he is already undoubtedly the best position player ever born in Korea, and he surpassed countryman Chan Ho Park in career WAR late last season.

Just because

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I did my best to keep this column — one of my all-time favorites — living (though not exactly easy to find) on an active page on SNY.tv for a very, very long time. But word came down from on high that it was time to remove that page from our navigation, so I figured I’d link the “On Keith’s mustache” epic here in memoriam.

I wrote this before I actually worked at SNY proper. It remains, to date, the only time I have ever been given a specific writing assignment by anyone here (they were putting together a package for the mustache-tribute night). And it marked, I believe, the first time I spoke to Kevin Burkhardt, who happily provided good quotes but probably still thinks I’m a weirdo for it.