[新聞] Count Bay out of long ball exhibition

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http://news.bostonherald.com/sports/baseball/red_sox/view.bg?articleid=1180861 WASHINGTON - Jason Bay has emerged as one of baseball's top sluggers, but don't go looking for him at the Home Run Derby. Bay currently is the runaway leader among American League outfielders in fan voting for next month's All-Star Game in St. Louis, more than 500,000 ahead of Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki. But even if asked, Bay will decline to participate in the Derby, because he's been down that road once and won't do it again. When Bay made his first All-Star Game in 2005, he accepted an invitation to the contest and was homerless in the first round. "I'd never been in a home run hitting contest at any point in my life," Bay said before going 4-for-6 with his 19th homer of the season in last night's 11-3 rout of the Nationals. "They asked, I thought it would be cool. I didn't homer, but that didn't bother me. It was just that it took away from my enjoyment of being an All-Star for the first time." The following year's game was played in Pittsburgh, and as the Pirates' hometown star, Bay was asked to participate in the Derby, but he declined. "They could ask me until they were blue in the face," Bay said. "Even if I had won the thing the year before, it's not my thing." He hasn't been asked about this year's Derby. If he is, the answer will be no. "The best moment for me was when it was over," he said. "It had been weighing on my mind the whole time. It's not a position I want to be in again." 中文新聞 http://www.nownews.com/2009/06/25/341-2469531.htm -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 118.160.64.42