ATLANTA Ten games into the 2011 season, the Baltimore Orioles were a first-place team, A.J.

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Pope said the thumping soundtrack, created by the team's DJ "J Period, " was sufficiently Brooklyn-centric.

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With a handful of players with international league experience (Cha Jong-Hyok plays for Swiss FC Wil in Europe, and three others are on Japanese J-League and Russian teams), the team fell short in the group stage of the World Cup finals but played some brilliant soccer along the way and just may have created an opportunity for history.

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