[新聞] 瓦倫泰在家鄉談日本

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瓦倫泰接受家鄉的區域性小報《格林威治時報》專訪，談到他對日本的感覺： "It has been a great life experience. I lived in Japan as a minority which is quite a different perspective on life," Valentine said. "I feel good about myself. I learned a new language. I learned a lot about baseball. I learned a lot about patience. I learned a lot about cultural diversity and people's motivations." "I'm glad that I was young enough when I went there to experience it," Valentine continued. "It is so challenging. It is such a demanding baseball culture. Japan was a place where there was room for baseball growth. A place where I got to see the fruits of my labors. Japan is full of 30,000-capacity baseball stadiums. My first year we drew 400,000 fans. Now attendance is up to 1.7 million and my Japanese players come out and sign autographs before games. I was truly part of some positive change." But even with that elusive first professional title on his resume, and even with that first World Series champions ring on his finger. Valentine's influence ultimately only goes so far. "Japan is not like the United States. You don't have one meeting, throw ideas out on the table and things get implemented immediately," Valentine said. "Things aren't said and then done. The weight of tradition is such that any new idea is tested over and over and over. And then ... maybe ... it's adopted. "I've always been a kick the wall down type of guy," Valentine continued. "It's difficult in Japan. There is resistance all along the way. My thought is that Japanese baseball belongs to the Japanese people. Not up to the hierarchy of the sport to make all the decisions. I make decisions during the nine innings of each game. But the rest of my ideas become mere suggestions." That frustration is a reason why it's good that Stamford's finest baseball player ever is home for the off-season. -- 我必須探究政治和戰爭，我的兒子才得以自由自在地研習數學和哲學 -------亞當斯 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.119.194.13