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※ 引述《PerryRod (Partridge)》之銘言： : From: http://tinyurl.com/2cylo5 : Can A-Rod keep the magic going? A-Rod 可以繼續他不可思議的表現嗎? : The Yankees slugger has put up a banner year, but with the pressure ready to : rise, the spotlight will become a lot hotter. 洋基的強打表現了驚人的一年,但隨著季後賽壓力的到來,大家的目光會更集中在他身上 : BY KAT O'BRIEN | kat.obrien@newsday.com : 9:04 PM EDT, October 2, 2007 : Alex Rodriguez has tried to be perfect his whole life. : He tried to be a flawless baseball player. To be the poster child for all : that's right about professional sports. To please the world by always saying : and doing what will make everyone else happy. A-Rod一直試著表現完美,試著不斷表現的讓大家滿意 : And he came close for a long time. Rodriguez grew from the teenaged top draft : pick to the best player in the game. The only criticism was the occasional : dig about his going to Texas for a 10-year, $252-million contract. : Yet after enduring a trio of postseason failures in New York, particularly : last year's 1-for-14 disaster, Rodriguez realized he never could please : everybody, and trying to do so was, he said, "restricting my potential." : He loosened up just in time to have a monster year. Given that he has an : opt-out clause in his contract that he can exercise at the end of the season, : someone is going to be paying him a lot of money to play baseball in the : future -- maybe even more than he's getting now. 從選秀狀元到比賽裡最好的球員,大家唯一對他的批評就是近三年季後賽, 尤其是去年1-14的悽慘表現,A-Rod領悟到他永遠沒辦法讓所有人都滿意, 這樣做只是在'限制自己',適時的領悟帶給他今年恐佈的表現,也可以讓他季後好好考慮他的逃脫條款,將會有人願意出天價挖角他 : "I'm not even thinking about that right now," Rodriguez said. "We have a lot : of guys on our team who are in my situation. I'm not the only guy." : Rodriguez did say, "I love New York and I love my teammates." Still, the : 32-year-old could guarantee himself mega-money, perhaps $30 million annually : for seven or eight seasons, with a new contract. '我現在根本沒在想逃脫條款''不只我,很多隊友都是這種情況'A-Rod說過他'非常喜歡紐約以及現在的隊友' 不過,如果A-Rod如果真的簽了新合約,一年超過三千萬美金應該沒有問題 : "When Alex hit his 500th home run, the meter begins to start running on your : career," said Rodriguez's agent, Scott Boras. "People begin to look at you in : a different way in that you're a part of history, and you're there at the : youngest age. Teams know he's going to challenge a lot of records. : "Alex is comfortable in New York, and he's said it all along, and he enjoys : playing for the Yankees. That's not to say that there couldn't be four or : five other franchises." '當A-Rod以歷史上最年輕的身分擊出他第500轟後,人們就開始以不同的角度來衡量他' A-Rod的經紀人Scott Boras說 '大家會把你當成歷史的一部份,知道你會開始挑戰各種紀錄' A-Rod在紐約感到很自在,也很享受在這打球 : Before A-Rod's opt-out date, he'll get one more chance to alter perceptions : that he can't carry a team in October. He's saddled with the same "can't win : the big one" tag that plagued the Indianapolis Colts' Peyton Manning until he : won the Super Bowl last season and that still hangs on stars such as Barry : Bonds, Kevin Garnett and Dirk Nowitzki. 在可能使用逃脫條款前,A-Rod還有一次機會改變大家對他沒辦法帶領一隻球隊打季後賽的看法,他跟一直到上一個球季才贏得Super Bowl的Peyton Manning背負著'重要比賽無法獲勝'的印象,大家對Barry Bonds,Kevin Garnettd和Dirk Nowitzki也都有一樣的印象 : Rodriguez's new attitude of tuning out the critics -- the media, the fans and : the perfectionist within -- could help him. Said A-Rod: "I know that every : player on our team wants to win [a championship], but I think part of winning : it is not wanting it so bad that you're going to push it away." : To Yankees third-base coach Larry Bowa, who was a Mariners coach when : Rodriguez was in Seattle, it was high time he eased up on himself. Said Bowa: : "I think this game, the more you play it, the more you let roll off your : back. You want to make everybody happy. You want to be the perfect player. In : this game, there's no such thing as the perfect player. You have to deal with : failure." A-Rod也提到他改變對大家批評後的調適,不會再去想太多 : Last year's postseason might have been the kick in the teeth Rodriguez needed : to learn that. He spent the offseason devoting himself to ensuring there : would not be a repeat of 2006. He trained ridiculously hard and also tried to : change his psyche to not be consumed by failure. 去年季後,A-Rod瘋狂的訓練,也試著不要一直去想失敗的事 : Yankees first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz, a high school teammate of A-Rod's, : said: "He trained so hard that he left no questions unanswered. There was not : going to be any way he'd have to say, 'If only I trained harder.' " : The result is that Rodriguez had the best regular season of his career. He : batted .314 and led the major leagues with 54 home runs, 156 RBIs, 143 runs, : a slugging percentage of .645 and an on-base-plus-slugging percentage (OPS) : of 1.067. A-Rod的高中隊友Doug Mientkiewicz也說到A-Rod訓練的非常努力,今年留下了.314打擊率 ,領先全聯盟的54hr和156RBI,143得分,.645的長打率,以及1.067的攻擊指數 : Rodriguez's plan to change was tested early. On Opening Day at Yankee : Stadium, he dropped a foul pop-up in the first inning, earning him a chorus : of boos. Rather than following his inclination and harping on the mistake, : Rodriguez looked at shortstop Derek Jeter and second baseman Robinson Cano : and laughed at himself. : "I think Opening Day was kind of a microcosm of my season," Rodriguez said. : "The first pop-up I dropped and 56,000 people booing . . . I'm sure there : were 56,000 people saying, 'Here we go again."' : But Rodriguez rebounded. His two-run homer in the eighth inning helped secure : the Yankees' 9-5 win. A-Rod季賽第一場在洋基球場第一局就發生守備失誤,也沒躲掉全場56000人的狂噓,但是他的兩分砲依然帶領洋基9比5獲勝 : "I think the ability to laugh at yourself is something I haven't been good at : my whole life," Rodriguez said. "I've probably laughed at myself more this : year than I have in my whole 12- or 13-year career. A season like this, I : would never have been able to enjoy it, because I was always so critical of : myself, always trying to overanalyze my game." A-Rod表示今年他比較懂得自嘲,過去總是給自己太大壓力 : Rodriguez didn't mess up much this season. He had the fifth-highest RBI total : in the majors since 1950. No Yankee has driven in more runs since Joe : DiMaggio had 167 RBIs in 1937. He hit the most home runs by a Yankee since : Roger Maris' 61 and Mickey Mantle's 54 in 1961, and broke his own record for : home runs by a right-handed-hitting Yankee. Yankees fans now chant "MVP!" : when he bats. 1950年來大聯盟最高打點,洋基最多打點自從DiMaggio在1937年的167打點,也打破洋基右打最多hr紀錄 : "It's about as complete an MVP season as you could find, as far as I'm : concerned," manager Joe Torre said. : Parse Rodriguez's numbers this season any way you like, and he has come : through in critical situations. His 15 winning RBIs were tied for third-most : in the American League. His 36 go-ahead RBIs led all of baseball. He hit .349 : (second in the AL) in the seventh inning or later. He hit .333 with runners : in scoring position and was 7-for-14 (.500) with the bases loaded. : Yet Rodriguez's greatest source of pride had nothing to do with statistics. : "My relationships with the guys," Rodriguez said. "I've done pretty good : stuff before in the past, but the friendships that I have with those 25 guys : make me feel better." 15個勝利打點美聯第三,36個超前打點全聯盟最多,得點圈打擊率.333,滿壘打擊率也有 5成 A-Rod也說跟全隊的感情很好 : Johnny Damon said people don't realize "what a good teammate Alex is." : Rodriguez even grew comfortable enough to host the entire team -- players, : coaches and staff -- for a Labor Day barbecue. Previously, he would never : have thrown such a party. There would have been too much pressure to make it : perfect. Damon也說A-Rod是很好的隊友,A-Rod在勞動節當天辦了個BBQ : And without that barbecue, this indelible moment would have passed him by: : Torre, who had a rocky relationship with Rodriguez last winter after batting : the slumping slugger eighth in the final ALDS game against the Tigers, : attended the barbecue with his wife, Ali. Rodriguez had expected Torre to : stop by briefly. Instead, A-Rod said: "Four hours later, he's still the last : guy. I had to push him out of the house. I was really touched by that : gesture. He didn't have to do that. First one to get there and the last one : to go." 跟Torre在去年把他在ALDS擺第8棒後建立了堅固的感情,他是最早去BBQ也是最晚走的 : The night the Yankees clinched the wild card, Rodriguez mentioned to Torre : how much his staying at the barbecue meant. Said Torre: "Good, I'm glad it : did, but I didn't do it for that reason. I did it because I was having a good : time." : Now Rodriguez's marvelous regular season is over. He has been swinging well : lately, driving in 13 runs in his last seven games and winding up the season : with a 13-for-29 streak. But he is 4-for-44 in postseason play dating to ALCS : Game 4 in 2004, so what comes next is his chance at postseason redemption. : Can he do it? Bowa cut off the question mid-sentence, saying: "I'll just say : this. If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't be here. People are entitled to think : what they want, but if it wasn't for him, we don't make it in the playoffs. : Without Alex, we're making golf times." 自從2004的ALCS第四場後,A-Rod季後賽打擊表現是4-44,今年A-Rod可以挽回他季後賽的表現嗎? Bowa中斷這問題只說 '沒有A-Rod,我們根本進不了季後賽' -- Let's Go Yankees! -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 90.193.9.26