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※ 引述《ancientsky (Ancient)》之銘言： : 文章標題標題：Welcome to Mannywood : 全文： : Thursday, March 26, 2009 Updated: March 28, 3:54 AM ET : Welcome to Mannywood 歡迎來到曼尼塢 : By Jeff Bradley ESPN The Magazine : Everybody being Manny. 人人都是Manny. : Imagine that. Imagine every single player in the big leagues, all 750 of : them, "Being Manny." 想像看這種情形,想像大聯盟750個球員各個都"being Manny" : Crazy? Sure. A little scary? Absolutely. But, believe it or not, most of them : would sign up for that right now. Maybe not the whole package, like the part : where Manny half-asses it down the line on ground balls or forgets how many : outs there are while playing defense. Not the part where Manny gets into : dugout shoving matches or, much worse, a physical confrontation with a : 64-year-old traveling secretary. And especially not the part where he puts : his contract situation ahead of his teammates, which led one Red Sox player : to publicly call him a clubhouse cancer. 瘋狂嗎？當然。有點嚇人嗎？絕對。但，信不信由你，大都數的球員都想，或許不是全盤變Manny，有些部分還是不要比如說，當Manny打出滾地球後沒有全力跑、或是守備時忘記幾出局了或是Manny在板凳區和隊友推打，或者，更糟的，對64歲的人出手或者，特別是他把合約問題看得比隊友重要，讓紅襪球員公開說他是毒瘤 : But the pure talent part? Oh, yeah. When Manny Ramírez is on a baseball : field, especially when he's in the batter's box, you can't take your eyes off : of him. Quite simply, he's the most studied, most observed hitter in baseball : -- and that's just by his peers. They marvel at Manny's ability to translate : his prep work into success when the lights come on. They envy the short-term : memory deficiency that seemingly allows him to bring the same level of : confidence to the plate regardless of whether he struck out or hit a home run : his last time up. "If slumps are between a player's ears, which I think they : are," says former Boston teammate Sean Casey, "then Manny is slump-proof, : because mentally he's always the same." That would explain how Ramírez could : have just two months in his entire 15-year career in which his OPS was below : .700. (His career OPS of 1.004 is ninth all-time.) 但Manny的才能？當然要當Manny在球場上，特別是站在打擊區時，你無法不注意他簡單一句話，他是最被研究和觀察的球員，而且還是被同儕研究觀察他們對Manny一上場就能把賽前喊話變成實績的能力驚嘆不已他們羨慕他好似記憶特別短，不管前一打席是K還是全壘打，都不影響下次打擊的信心前紅襪隊友說：「如果說，低潮都是在腦袋裡，那Manny絕不會有低潮，因為他的心態一直都是一樣的」那就可以解釋他十五年生涯中，只有兩個月的時間OPS低於.700 （生涯OPS 1.004是史上第九） : There are even some of Manny's personality traits that many other major : leaguers would gladly adopt. For example, his "audacity," as Dodgers teammate : Casey Blake calls it, to laugh off a baserunning mistake, an error, or even : to say, "It's not the end of the world [if we lose]," as he told the Boston : media and fans when the Red Sox were trailing the Indians 3-1 in the 2007 : American League championship series. "That," says Blake, an Indian at the : time, "was brilliant." Why? "Because it's the truth. Not everyone would say : it, but it put the pressure in perspective." 有些大聯盟球員甚至願意擁有某些Manny的人格特質比如說，道奇隊友Casey Blake所謂的「神經粗」，跑壘錯誤、守備失誤都可以笑笑就過去甚至2007年美聯冠軍賽紅襪1-3落後印地安人時，都能說：「輸了也不是世界末日」這一點，當時是印地安人隊的Blake說：「太強了」為什麼？「因為事實就是這樣啊，只是沒有人敢說但是那讓你能從不同的角度去看（比賽）壓力。」 : Blake also admires the unbridled joy that Manny shows, even at age 36, when : he comes up big between the lines. "He plays in a different league than the : rest of us, a higher league," Blake says. "He's all by himself in it, and : clearly he's having fun playing in it. He treats it like we're still playing : in Little League. All of us sit back and wonder, How does he do it?" Blake也很欣賞Manny即使到了36歲，打得好時，依然非常享受 Blake說：「他和我們等級不同，自己是一個等級而且，很顯然他很享受打球，好像我們還再打少棒一樣我們全都好奇，他是怎麼辦到的？」 : Really, how does he do it? That's the question everyone asks while watching : Ramírez in the batter's box. Even accomplished big league hitters are awed : by the rhythm of his swing, the way he can load his body -- from his legs : through his core muscles to his hands -- with power, then suspend everything : until he recognizes the speed, location and movement of the pitch, before : finally letting the bat fly through the zone. "Players were asking for video : of him when he was a kid in Cleveland," says Mariners first baseman Russell : Branyan, a former Indian. "And it hasn't changed. You watch him, and you try : to grasp even a little of what he does, hope it sinks in. You wonder what : he's seeing that you don't see, what he's doing that you're not doing." 他是怎麼辦到的？當Manny走上打擊區時，每個人都在問即使是大聯盟強棒，也驚嘆他揮棒的韻律、他如何全身上下灌注力量，暫停、直到看出球的速度位置和移動軌跡，才將球擊出水手隊一壘手、前印地安人Russell Branyan說：「那一直都沒變。你觀察他，試著學他，疑惑他看到什麼你看不到的、做了什麼你沒做的。」 : Orlando Hudson, the new Dodgers second baseman, confesses he used to become a : spectator, a fan, when Manny was at bat. "I had to slap myself at times," : says Hudson, who watched Manny up close as a division rival during four years : in Toronto, before moving on to Arizona. "I'd get so focused on what he did : at the plate that I forgot my job was to see the ball coming off his bat and : make a play. He can mesmerize you." When Ramírez was traded to LA last July, : Hudson told his D-back teammates, "Wait until you see this guy hit." When a : few of them said they'd seen Ramírez plenty on TV, Hudson barked, "Forget : TV! Forget TV! You got to see him hit in person to know what it's like." : Hudson smiles. "By the end of the season, those guys saw enough to : understand. Forget TV. Doesn't tell the story." 道奇新二壘手、曾和Manny在同一個分區長達四年的O-Dog坦承，當Manny打擊時，他就變成小球迷一個：「有時我得把自己打醒。我太專注在看他打擊，都忘了我的工作是要看他打出來的球他可以把你催眠掉。」當Manny被交易到L.A.時，O-Dog告訴他響尾蛇隊的隊友：「等你們親眼看了就知道」有幾個人告訴他，他們已經在電視上看過了，O-Dog大叫：「忘了電視！你要親眼看到才知道是怎麼回事」 O-Dog說：「球季還沒結束前，這些人已經看夠了，也知道別管電視，電視不是全部」＊連線不太穩定，文章很長，先譯一部分，希望有人能接手 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 99.140.169.207