刚好今天板上在吵MLB到底有没有认真投入经典赛， 以一个老球迷来说，这届绝对比以前好很多了啦，毕竟凡事都是比较出来的， 刚好找到一篇2009的MLB板旧闻，搭配当时乡民用时事梗的翻译以下── (如果不知道梗的来源，就让板上的老人帮忙解释) ========旧闻分隔线======== ※ [本文转录自 MLB 看板] 作者: abc12812 () 看板: MLB 标题: [WBC] 美国队也准备好了 时间: Tue Mar 3 21:51:08 2009 http://tinyurl.com/cajauh (原内容已佚失) CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Three years ago, they had no idea what they were in for. 三年前，他们不知为何而战 They had no idea how ready the rest of the world was. They had no idea how not ready they were themselves. And, worst of all, the world-famous members of Team USA had absolutely no idea the World Baseball Classic was about to turn into their own little international embarrassment. 国际笑话，丢脸丢到国外 "We thought we'd crush everybody," Todd Jones, a member of Team USA's star-studded 2006 bullpen, recalled Monday. "So we were all concerned about playing time." Todd Jones:我以为我们打别队就像老爸打儿子 Oops. Not for long. 一分钟到了 They had no idea they could fall eight runs behind Canada by the sixth inning. They had no idea they could get shut down by a bunch of tricky Korean pitchers they'd never heard of. They had no idea that Oliver Perez and seven Mexican relievers could outduel Roger Clemens and oust them in the second round. 马上，就被肛 But it all happened, in very real life. And the men who were a part of Team USA's 2006 WBC nightmare think they know exactly why it happened. 他们认为他们找到原因了 Three years ago, said Davey Johnson, a coach on the 2006 edition but the manager this time around, "It was kinda like glitz and glamour -- but not a lot of preparation." Davey Johnson:我那时还以为我们是去观光的咧 So that brings us to Monday, the day the 2009 version of Team USA hit the field for the first time. There's a pretty fair chance you won't have any trouble telling this team from, say, South Africa's. 又看不起南非队了 It's a team with 14 former All-Stars, three former MVPs, three onetime rookies of the year, a 20-homer man at every position on the field, Jake Peavy and Roy Oswalt at the top of the rotation and a bullpen that includes seven different smokeballers who averaged better than a strikeout an inning last year. 好多国内王 But assembling talent was never this team's biggest challenge -- not even in a year during which somebody or other seemed to be excusing himself from the roster every 15 minutes during the past few days. 没有那麽多逃兵 Nope, the biggest challenge has been trying to make sure this team -- unlike the last one -- is actually ready to play when it kicks off this extravaganza Saturday in Toronto. And the manager thinks that mission already has been accomplished. 美国队：我们准备好了 "We're definitely more prepared than we were a few years ago," Johnson said. Johnson：我也准备好了 There's a reason spring training started on Feb. 14 this year, even though the season won't open until April 5. There's a reason the Grapefruit League and Cactus League games were already rolling by Feb. 25, the earliest opening date ever. 因为春训开始得比较早 And you could sum up that reason in three letters -- WBC. 都是WBC害的 When the powers that be studied why Team USA's rule-the-world dreams blew up last time, they didn't have to study long. Turned out they'd forgotten one minor detail that soon turned into a major disaster: 上次他们犯了个大错 They forgot that baseball players need to play. 没有热身 "Three years ago, we only had one exhibition game, against the Giants," said Chipper Jones, one of four players on this team who were around in 2006. "So in my case, I'd played in one [exhibition] game for the Braves, against [the University of] Georgia. Then I had two at-bats in that San Francisco game. So I had four live at-bats before we had to step it up [in the WBC]. Chipper Jones: 拎北上次赛前只在大鲁阁打了四球 "Not a real good setup for success," Jones concluded, pretty darned astutely. Chipper Jones: 发球机太慢了 You could make a fine case, of course, that five days of spring training games -- followed this week by three Team USA exhibition games -- isn't a whole lot better of a setup for success, considering that some countries have been gearing up for the WBC for months. But in the manager's eyes, this is still a massive improvement on 2006. 赛程安排进的一小步，美国队的一大步 "I think the biggest thing is that most of these guys now have had 10 to 12 at-bats," Johnson said. "And that's really big. Most of the pitchers have had at least one or two outings. That's huge. Johnson: 这次多给你们几个代币 "And just knowing that the competition is going to be tough. Taking it seriously. Preparing a little bit. So I think mentally and physically, this group is much more prepared than a few years ago." 要开始认真了 Three years ago, they didn't get it. Maybe they couldn't have gotten it until they'd been through it. But much like their hoops brethren, the 2004 Dream Team, they made the mistake of assuming they'd be the ones kicking butt just because this was their game. 上次的梦幻队还没清醒就梦遗了 It wasn't until they actually started playing, and getting whupped, Todd Jones said, when "we found out other countries had worked out since Jan. 1. Heck, even Korea got military exemptions if they got to [the final four in] San Diego. Todd Jones: 虎落平阳被犬欺 "So there was a lot on the line for all those [countries] except ours," he said. "We [just] wanted to get our work in and not get hurt." Todd Jones: 被打怕了 That's not normally a real good prescription for how to wind up on the old medal stand. But fortunately, Johnson was there to witness it firsthand. And apparently, he was taking notes. 还好，教练Johnson记下了一切 "I think Major League Baseball understood that there were a lot of guys a couple of years ago who felt like they were big leaguers who'd had great careers and they could just throw their glove out on the mound and get people out," he said. "I think now they realize that all around the globe, there are some great baseball players playing for Mexico, and Italy, and these countries can beat you." Johnson: 到处都有好手 a different sport, it didn't take any arm twisting to convince the manager of the parallels. Johnson被问问题。 "I think it's pretty much a similar thing," Johnson said. "I overheard Dustin Pedroia today talking about how Dice-K was rubbing it in all the time, talking about how 'we won, and you guys weren't even around.' So I know these guys don't want to have to hear that again this year." Johnson: Pedroia跟我说Dice-K伤到他幼小的心灵了 Then again, the Japanese team has been working out together for weeks. The American team didn't even find itself in the same locker room, or working out on the same field, until Monday. 美国队又落後了 Next up, it's exhibition games against the Yankees on Tuesday, the Blue Jays on Wednesday and the Phillies on Thursday, followed by a postgame flight to Toronto and the real deal. So if these guys are to bond, they'll have to do it fast. 他们要尽快追上 And let's just say there are some, uh, natural barriers to that bonding. The Phillies' Jimmy Rollins, for instance, reported that when he reached his locker, he found the Mets' David Wright stationed just two lockers over. Luckily for them, the man in between them turned out to be their personal U.N. peacekeeper. 置物柜的位置有些怪怪的 "Sure enough, [Derek] Jeter comes in, gets to his locker and says, 'They put me in between you two? Huh? Peace,'" Rollins said, laughing. "And that kind of broke the ice right there. So that's why he's the captain." Jeter: 我怎麽会是第三者？ Whether Johnson can maintain that peace when he tries to figure out whom to start at short -- Jeter or Rollins -- and whom to start at third -- Wright or Chipper -- is a whole different sort of challenge. But the manager is already looking for ways to stay out of that fray, too. Johnson要想办法让大家感情变好 "I've got Hall of Fame coaches on this staff," Johnson quipped. "And I had them submit lineups to me. So if these guys don't like my lineup, I'll tell them it was [Barry] Larkin's idea. Or Mike Schmidt's. I'll take the heat off me." Johnson: 我可是国宝咧 But (ba-dum bum) seriously, folks, Johnson also hopes to take the heat off his players by giving them as much say in their fate as possible. Johnson希望大家都能合作无间 He asked players Monday which ones were used to getting the green light to run on their own. He checked on which position players felt they were ready to play all nine innings, and which ones weren't. And he let them know that "I've never been one to overmanage." 他要了解大家的习性 But however all that shakes out, the manager has a good feeling about this group -- good enough that he ripped a page out of his shortstop's psych-'em-up handbook by predicting that Team USA is the "team to beat" in this tourney. Johnson: 我感觉，我们会打的不错 line and gotten a stipend from his manager out of it. But Davey Johnson wasn't acting like a man who is real concerned about getting a bill. Rollins大嘴巴乱讲话 "From now on, I'll just let him [Rollins] be the spokesman," Johnson said, chuckling. Johnson: 科科，爱讲就让你讲个够！ -- ◢██ ◣ ◤█≡ ⊕陈之藩 —⊙-⊙- ▌▌ 因为需要炸的东西太多了， 谢天 ██皿 瓦 就炸你家罢。 █████ ◥█︶◤ █斯 菜菜子 ♀ 单身 ◢﹨▲∕◣███ ψa12582002 --

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