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	Out After a Song Nashville sound official offends with Asian-themed music By Ethen Lieser Iowa Cubs’ Hee Sop Choi was greeted with Asian-themed music in Nashville. Almost anything goes at a minor league baseball game. Here, the game has no one else to please but the fans. Most of the time, there are no television cameras, no Jack Bucks or Tim McCarvers being smitten with viewers. In between innings, kids can round the bases for a chance to win an autographed baseball. Or maybe they have to eat the most hot dogs on the pitcher’s mound. Yes, almost anything goes at a minor league baseball game — almost. During a Triple-A Pacific Coast League match-up between the Iowa Cubs and the Nashville Sounds in Nashville, Tenn., sound official Brian Kirsch walked the tightrope of good and bad taste. This time, he fell — hard. After playing funk classic “Kung Fu Fighting” and David Bowie’s “China Girl” before Cubs’ South Korean slugger Hee Seop Choi’s at-bats during the Aug. 10-13 series, Kirsch was fired. COMPLETE STORY...		r.a.w. Books (Feature) San Jose to Name Airport After Norman Mineta (in National News) 30 Minutes with Elaine Chao (in Bay Area News) Get Ready for Cyberwars (in Business) Out After a Song (in Sports) Creating Family from Strangers (in A&E) Ken Garcia's Brave Old World (in Opinion)

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Spine-Tingling Baseball Blockbuster Players From the Pacific Rim could decide pennant By Ethen Lieser With only little over a month left in the regular season, the wild card and divisional race watchers are brewing coffee grounds to a boil — not the java with a hint of macadamia nut kind that college kids drink — but rather the dark roasted, Don Zimmer-face-contorting, kick-you-in-the-you-know-where kind. The kind Dirty Harry would be proud sloshing down. And it better have caffeine. Considering how tight the teams are, it could go right down to the midnight-wire on Sept. 31. A possible photo finish, if you will — like the Kentucky Derby, the Indy 500, the Wily Coyote salivating on the rump-feathers of the Road Runner. But in this cartoon, the races don’t have a script. COMPLETE STORY...

HitnRun Kobe Bryant, Nomar Garciaparra, Kevin Seitzer, Lloyd Waner, Tony Oliva, Hideo Nomo, Bronson Sardinha, lee Hamilton, Hideo Irabu.

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