[新聞] A-Rod Can Earn Pinstripes In October

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From: http://sports.tbo.com/sports/MGB9Q1GHFSE.html 這一篇跟最近NY-Yankees及A-Rod板的文章及論點都差不多，反正大家各自表述、自由心證，爭論好像永遠不會有個結論。可以預期的是：十月如果打的好，標題是：「A-Rod is Finally the Yankees!」「A-Rod Earn Pinstripes Finally!」從季賽一直被噓到不行，卻在季後賽大放異彩的話，大概可以拍成電影了。當然，也會有記者諷刺地說：看吧！這小子又在自己寫劇本了…balabalabala 十月如果打不好，標題是：「What an A-sshole!」接著台灣球迷開始圍勦，並討論將A-Rod交易出去的可行性、A-Rod板變恨板… 反正這些都是未知的事情，與其花許多時間去爭吵，不如好好的享受看比賽的樂趣吧。今年的季後賽真令人期待呀~~ A-Rod Can Earn Pinstripes In October Skip directly to the full story. By MARTIN FENNELLY The Tampa Tribune Published: Sep 23, 2006 ST. PETERSBURG - Even good-looking, bi-racial, highest-paid players on the most popular teams - uh, his words - need rest. So Alex Rodriguez watched Friday as the eternally playoff-bound Yankees played the Devil Rays. It was just as well. A-Rod will need his strength. October is coming. October, when all good little Yankees earn their pinstripes, when singular acts can transform seemingly ordinary men into five-borough legends, men like Bucky Dent and Scott Brosius, comically lesser talents than the immensely skilled Rodriguez, the game's jackpot king. October is coming, and quarter-billionaire A-Rod is on the clock, even as he sits pleasantly in the Yankees dugout at Tropicana Field blowing sunflower-seed shells every which way, smiling at all who pass. This is the Lonely Yankee? October is coming. October is coming, and October is for Yankees, even now, five years since their last world championship. George Steinbrenner has surfaced to say the lads will win it all. It seems absurd that you can call 162 games a failure because of a lost October. The Yankees shortstop, the captain, gave you a strange look. "Yes you can," Derek Jeter said. October. One is all it takes. "I hope so," A-Rod said. Walking The Walk October is coming, and it's finally time for Alex Rodriguez to play to it, to banish ghosts, to be a man of the moment. "That's what you're judged on here," he said. "What you do in October." Has there ever been a ballplayer with a more crushing weight bearing down on him as October looms? Has there ever been a ballplayer who put himself in that position? Sometimes we honestly wonder if A-Rod would be happier in Tampa Bay, which might clear up the Rays' shortstop situation, though there's the slight problem of A-Rod making more than the Rays' payroll. But at least he wouldn't have to deal with playoff pressure. Not ever. A pity party is no way to start a postseason parade, but that's how Rodriguez comes off as this week's cover boy in Sports Illustrated, which detailed bad-press days. One A-Rod quote: "When people write [bad things] about me, I don't know if it's [because] I'm good- looking, I'm bi-racial, I make the most money, I play on the most popular team …" OK, so in the same article we laugh when Yankee Jason Giambi demands that A-Rod be accountable - Giambi, the man who once made his body into a chemistry set, talking accountability. But it's A-Rod stuff like that good-looking-bi-racial that helps explain how a defending American League MVP is an island on his own team, often booed in his own ballpark, and how, despite 118 home runs and 352 RBI in three Yankee seasons, he still has something to prove. October is coming. "That's the reason I came here," Rodriguez said. "You want the expectations. I could have stayed [in Seattle], in Texas. But I'm here." And October is coming. Pressure, too. Funny, A-Rod's first October in New York went swell for seven games, all the way up to the Yankees taking a 3-0 lead over the Red Sox in the 2004 ALCS. He is 4-for-32 in his nine postseason games since. His chief contribution to the greatest postseason collapse in baseball history was a girly-man ball slap against the Red Sox in Game 6 of that ALCS. Rodriguez didn't drive in a run in the Division Series games against the Angels last season. The Yankees went home early. October is coming. Again. A-Rod's Last Stand? If all A-Rod had wanted was love, it was there for the taking in Seattle. But he left for incomparable riches in Texas. The year after he left, the Mariners won 116 games. In Texas, A-Rod stewed when the Rangers - surprise! - had only $14.95 to spend on other players. On to New York. And Octobers. It's about the Octobers in New York. You can say silly things, be needy, insecure and still play hero. Reggie Jackson proved it. But it's just A-Rod's luck that he plays next to Jeter, the consummate Yankee, Mr. Deeds, deeds over words, whose career brims with October moments. And October is coming. "It's not about individuals," Jeter said. Even so, October is coming straight for Alex Rodriguez. It might even bring another Subway Series with the Mets. Imagine all that there for the taking for A-Rod. There are always chances like that if you're a Yankee. "Octobers keep coming around," A-Rod said. That they do. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 203.69.75.117