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Does life get any better than in July? Holiday weekends (I might still be recovering from the 4th), summer weather, and, of course, Major League Baseball and the All-Star Game. While the NL vs. AL clash usually makes for good TV, more often than not the most unforgettable moments of the mid-summer classic come from the Home Run Derby.

For anyone not in the know, the Puerto Rico Day Parade goes down in New York City on Sunday (apparently the Big Apple’s third largest walking party behind the St.

All right, people, time for part two of our preview on the Latin American teams competing in the 2009 World Baseball Classic. On Monday, I profiled the national teams from Venezuela, Panama, and Mexico and now we turn our eyes to the remaining Latin powerhouses (by the way, I bet any amount of money that in ‘09 a team from a Spanish-speaking country takes down the WBC–no disrespect to defending champs Japan, but we’re due).