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Kim must eventually face the heat

By Jim Caple
ESPN.com

Friday, March 29, 2002

Fans cheered Byung-Hyun Kim when the p.a. announcer introduced him this spring. They cheered him when he took the mound. They cheered him when he retired a batter. They even cheered him when he stepped to the plate and struck out. The applause is nice and he appreciates it, but after awhile, he says, it did get a little embarrassing. "I would like to ask the fans to stop the ovations," Kim said through a translator. After all, it's not as if he's a tender child trembling like Barney Fife fac ...

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