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COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
On a gray afternoon of what would, for the time being, at least, prove to be his last weekend with the Mets, Jae Weong Seo, a pitcher once touted as a prospect blessed with vast possibilities, paused to chat about the eternal struggle against pain and disappointment. "Sometimes I wish life was easy and there were no struggles," he said. "But then, without them, life would not be that fun to live."
It is unusual to hear such talk from major-league ballplayers, who tend to think in terms of the present--a game, an at-bat, a pitch at a time. Seo, however, is Korean, and he has inherited a condition so particular that...
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