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It’s Cinco de Mayo, so it’s only fitting that today we honor a great Mexican baseball player — and his mostacho.

Last year, ESPN came up with the following analogy: Jorge Cantu is to Mexico, as Ichiro is to Japan, as Derek Jeter is to the United States, and as Alex Rodriguez is to the Dominican Republic. Frankly I thought it was insulting to Cantu. In 2005, Cantu set Devil Rays single-season franchise records for RBI record (117), game-tying or go-ahead RBI (37), multi-HR games (4), and HR by a 2nd baseman (19). In 2006, in the first ever World Baseball Classic, Jorge Cantu drove in both of Mexico’s runs off Roger Clemens, as Mexico eliminated the heavily-favored United States team that was led by Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, and The Shaved Emasculated Shell of Johnny Damon. And Cantu did it with a spectacular mustache. So on this day when the world celebrates Mexico’s independence from France, please don’t forget this Mexican hero, or this Mexican hero’s mustache.

Each day we describe the stache in one word.

Jorge Cantu’s stache = Mexcellent