※ 引述《ancientsky (Ancient)》之铭言： : 文章标题标题：Welcome to Mannywood : 全文： : Thursday, March 26, 2009 Updated: March 28, 3:54 AM ET : Welcome to Mannywood 欢迎来到曼尼坞 : 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." 想像看这种情形,想像大联盟750个球员各个都"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. 疯狂吗？当然。有点吓人吗？绝对。 但，信不信由你，大都数的球员都想，或许不是全盘变Manny，有些部分还是不要 比如说，当Manny打出滚地球後没有全力跑、或是守备时忘记几出局了 或是Manny在板凳区和队友推打，或者，更糟的，对64岁的人出手 或者，特别是他把合约问题看得比队友重要，让红袜球员公开说他是毒瘤 : 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？当然要 当Manny在球场上，特别是站在打击区时，你无法不注意他 简单一句话，他是最被研究和观察的球员，而且还是被同侪研究观察 他们对Manny一上场就能把赛前喊话变成实绩的能力惊叹不已 他们羡慕他好似记忆特别短，不管前一打席是K还是全垒打，都不影响下次打击的信心 前红袜队友说：「如果说，低潮都是在脑袋里， 那Manny绝不会有低潮，因为他的心态一直都是一样的」 那就可以解释他十五年生涯中，只有两个月的时间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." 有些大联盟球员甚至愿意拥有某些Manny的人格特质 比如说，道奇队友Casey Blake所谓的「神经粗」， 跑垒错误、守备失误都可以笑笑就过去 甚至2007年美联冠军赛红袜1-3落後印地安人时，都能说：「输了也不是世界末日」 这一点，当时是印地安人队的Blake说：「太强了」 为什麽？「因为事实就是这样啊，只是没有人敢说 但是那让你能从不同的角度去看（比赛）压力。」 : 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也很欣赏Manny即使到了36岁，打得好时，依然非常享受 Blake说：「他和我们等级不同，自己是一个等级 而且，很显然他很享受打球，好像我们还再打少棒一样 我们全都好奇，他是怎麽办到的？」 : 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." 他是怎麽办到的？当Manny走上打击区时，每个人都在问 即使是大联盟强棒，也惊叹他挥棒的韵律、 他如何全身上下灌注力量，暂停、直到看出球的速度位置和移动轨迹，才将球击出 水手队一垒手、前印地安人Russell Branyan说： 「那一直都没变。 你观察他，试着学他，疑惑他看到什麽你看不到的、做了什麽你没做的。」 : 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." 道奇新二垒手、曾和Manny在同一个分区长达四年的O-Dog坦承， 当Manny打击时，他就变成小球迷一个： 「有时我得把自己打醒。我太专注在看他打击，都忘了我的工作是要看他打出来的球 他可以把你催眠掉。」 当Manny被交易到L.A.时，O-Dog告诉他响尾蛇队的队友：「等你们亲眼看了就知道」 有几个人告诉他，他们已经在电视上看过了，O-Dog大叫： 「忘了电视！你要亲眼看到才知道是怎麽回事」 O-Dog说：「球季还没结束前，这些人已经看够了，也知道 别管电视，电视不是全部」 ＊连线不太稳定，文章很长，先译一部分，希望有人能接手 --

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