来源：The Mercury News 网址：http://tinyurl.com/ydfyv5gu 这篇实在有够长，翻完不知道要什麽时候， 先翻一部分，也附上原文出处，要翻完大概下礼拜了 欢迎指正喔~~ Where have you gone, Tim Lincecum? In search of beloved Giants ace 协寻Lincecum: 巨人王牌Lincecum到底去哪里了？（上） SEATTLE — Tim Lincecum’s last known address is tucked behind a partial fence, just off a sloped dead-end street near the shores of Lake Washington. 西雅图--Tim Lincecum最後被知道住处是在华盛顿湖岸旁边一条没通的斜坡小路旁的房 子，房子周围有一部份的篱笆围着。 Getting to the front door of the barn-red building requires crossing a short bridge. It feels like walking the plank. 要去涂着红色的大门得要走过一个短桥，不过走起来像是一块木板铺的而已。 This is where I rang the doorbell over the course of a few days last week. It ’s been said that nearly a third of Bigfoot sightings come from the Pacific Northwest, so this was my best bet at finding the elusive, mythical, shaggy creature known as The Freak. 上个礼拜好几天，我大概都是这样去按门铃。传说中的生物『大脚』(Bigfoot)有说在美国 西北部靠太平洋这边被看到很多次，我想这大概也会是我最好的机会去找到大家说的那个 难以捉摸的，像谜一般的，不修边幅的--『The Freak』怪胎Lincecum。 No such luck. Lincecum, the Giants’ two-time Cy Young Award winner, never answered the door, and neither did anyone else. Whenever I pressed the doorbell, the lone stirring came from annoyed dogs. 不过我的运气很差，Lincecum，巨人队两次CYA得主，都没来应门过，或者说，根本没有人 来开门过。每次我按门铃，应声的只有狗叫声。 My editor dispatched me to Seattle because people miss the living daylights out of Timothy LeRoy Lincecum. This has been the first Major League season without him since 2007, when the tiny kid with the big fastball first set AT&T Park ablaze. 我的主编派我来西雅图，因为大家非常想念Lincecum，今年是从2007年後，小小只的 Lincecum在巨人球场发光发热後，第一次没有Lincecum投球的球季。 “It was a little guy taking on the world,” recalled broadcaster Duane Kuiper. “Everybody likes that.” 「那像是一个小个儿对抗整个世界，」广播员Duane Kuiper说。「大家最喜欢看这种情节 的了。」 Over the course of nine Giants seasons and three World Series victories, The Freak entranced, enthralled, delighted and sometimes maddened. 综观在巨人的九年，三次世界大赛胜利，Lincecum的投球，吸引了球迷的目光，带给球迷 兴奋，有时甚至疯狂。 Lincecum was the best pitcher in the league for a stretch and then, almost inexplicably, one of the worst. Either way, he put on a show that made him one of the most popular and fascinating players in San Francisco history. Lincecum曾经是联盟里最好的投手，但是很难以解释的，他也是最差的之一。然而不管怎 麽说Lincecum，在巨人队史上，他所表现的让他是球迷中最受欢迎的选手之一。 His absence feels particularly acute this season, with a team devoid of both wins and personality. 他的消失在今年巨人球队既没赢球也没明星球员的状况下，更显得明显。 Where have you gone, Tim Lincecum? The Giants turn their last-place eyes to you. 你到底去哪里了，Lincecum？排名最後的巨人队正在找你。 “The vibe around the Giants was different because of Timmy,” pitching coach Dave Righetti told me shortly before my trip. “You’re talking about every walk of life — kids, women, little girls, little boys, grown men. They just wanted to watch this guy. 「整个球队的气氛会因为Lincecum而有所不同，」投手教练Dave Righetti在我出发到西雅 图前跟我说。「每一个人，男男女女，老老少少，他们都想看Lincecum投球。」 It wasn’t just that Lincecum threw in the upper-90s or that that he led the National League in strikeouts three consecutive times. It was that he did so with a bat boy’s physique and a skateboarder’s cool. 那不只是因为Lincecum的球速到95mph以上，或者他连续三年在国联夺三振排行榜第一，那 是因为他像棒球球童的身材投到那个程度跟他像街头玩滑板的小孩那种酷样。 Lincecum’s starts were holidays. He could turn a Tuesday night in August into a happening. People wished each other a happy Timmy Day. 有Lincecum投球的那天，球场就像是假日场，即使是八月星期二的场子也像是大赛一样， 球迷希望每隔一天都是Lincecum日。 “It was a happy fit because he was San Francisco. He is San Francisco. Quirky. Eccentric. Marches to his own beat,” Giants CEO Larry Baer said. “ When it was Timmy Day, it wasn’t just that he was good. It was like a lot of the fans felt their son was pitching. ‘Here’s our kid going out there.’ He was embraced in that way — your son’s Little League game. You really felt invested, emotionally, in his performance.” 「那真是个好搭配，因为他那就是旧金山。多变，古怪，有自己的节奏，」巨人CEO Larry Baer说。「当是Lincecum投球的日子，那不只是因为他投的好，更是因为许多球迷觉得他 看起来像是他们的小孩在投球。『你看我的小孩在场上投球!』他是这样被大家喜爱的-- 一个在小联盟投球的小孩，你会把情感投射在他的表现上。」 Now, the pitcher you couldn’t take your eyes off is nowhere to be seen. Lincecum last appeared in a game on Aug 5, 2016, for the Los Angeles Angels. Pitching in his hometown of Seattle that day, Lincecum’s fading fastball got knocked around for six runs in 3.1 innings, sending his final ERA to 9.16. 然而现在，那位你没办法把目光从他身上移开的投手不知道去哪里了，Lincecum最後一次 投球是2016年八月为天使队投球，那天是跟他家乡的水手队打。Lincecum失速的快速球被 打爆，投了3.1局，失六分，最後的ERA是9.16。 He hasn’t retired yet, but when he does Baer is poised to bring him to San Francisco in some kind of official capacity. “There’s definitely a place in the Giants world for Linecum,” he said. “I mean, that goes without saying.” Lincecum还没退休，不过若是他要退休的话，巨人CEO Baer会用正式的方式把他带回旧金 山。「在巨人球队里一定有一个Lincecum的位置，」他说。「这是用膝盖想就知道的 事。」 Until then? Lincecum is believed to be back here inhabiting the shores of Lake Washington, although no one with the Giants could say for sure. Someone thought maybe he was in Arizona. When the team tried to invite him to throw out the first pitch before a playoff game against the Chicago Cubs last year, Lincecum was in Hawaii. 在那之前呢？据信Lincecum回到他的家乡，靠华盛顿湖畔，虽然巨人球团里没有一个人可 以打包票。有人认为他曾经在亚利桑那，而当去年巨人跟小熊打季後赛的时候有邀请 Lincecum来开球，Lincecum那时在夏威夷。 Wherever he is now, he’s keeping a low profile. The Freak is now The Ghost. 不管他现在在哪里，他都非常低调。『怪胎』(The Freak)现在变成了『鬼魅』(The Ghost)。 Lincecum’s agent, Rick Thurman, told the Bay Area News Group in August that Lincecum is keeping in shape and hopes to pitch again. But Thurman did not respond to voicemails, texts or e-mails in search of additional details for this story. Lincecum’s father, Chris, who was once a frequent and chatty radio guest, did not respond to texts. Lincecum的经纪人，Rick Thurman在八月的时候告诉记者Lincecum有维持住他的体态，也 希望可以再投球。不过，经纪人Thurman对记者想要问更多细节时，他自己也不回留言，不 回简讯或是email。而Lincecum的爸爸Chris，曾经也是广播的常客，一样也不回简讯。 Lincecum is not on social media. The last missive from his confirmed (but never verified) Twitter account came in 2012, when the four-time All-Star tweeted about a “food coma” after a trip to Benihana’s. 社群媒体也没有Lincecum的踪迹。他从他推特帐号(但是未被确认是不是Lincecum的)发出 最後的一篇是在2012年，在他从曼谷回来後写了『吃撑了』(Food coma)。 A handful of Giants employees who specialize in media relations or alumni events say Lincecum is the rare ex-player they can’t keep tabs on. A current Giants player said he sent The Freak a text on his 33rd birthday on June 15. Weeks later, he still hadn’t heard back. 一些精於经营社群媒体跟校友活动的巨人工作人员说Lincecum是少数前球员他们追踪不到 的，一个现役巨人球员说在Lincecum六月15日三十三岁生日那天有传简讯给他，但是好几 个星期过去了，他还没接到任何回覆。 Even Lincecum’s last public sighting came with an air of myth. Fans spotted him among the San Francisco crowd protesting for women’s rights in the wake of Donald Trump’s inauguration in January — and they posted photos on social media to back it up. Lincecum出席公众场合的新闻也几乎没听过，有球迷看到在一月川普就任时，Lincecum有 为了争取女权，跟群众在旧金山抗议--他们有在社群媒体上PO照片。 his agent, said he wasn’t sure it was actually him. 但是在尝试跟Lincecum求证时，他也是不回简讯，而他的经纪人Thurman甚至说他不确定那 个人是不是他。 That Lincecum has gone Greta Garbo (or is it Bernie Carbo?) offends nobody who knows him well. Several Giants players were unfazed about the long lapses in communication. No one interprets it as a snub. Even at his peak, Lincecum preferred to lay low. Lincecum就像Greta Carbo(瑞典女演员，非常低调，极度神秘)或者像Bernie Carbo(前 MLB球员)一样，没有冒犯任何了解他的人。几个巨人球员因为联络不到他非常担心，但没 有人认为Lincecum是臭屁不甩人，因为即使在Lincecum巅峰时，他依旧很低调。 At the University of Washington, where Lincecum was a two-time Pac-10 pitcher of the year, there are posters and banners commemorating the fire-balling star who struck out more batters than anyone in conference history — more than Tom Seaver, more than Randy Johnson. 在华盛顿大学时，Lincecum是两届Pac-10年度投手，那里有Lincecum的海报跟标语纪念这 位夺三振次数超过那分区的任何一个投手--超过Tom Seaver跟Randy Johnson。 But the real Lincecum stays away 但是真正的Linceum还是不见踪影。 “He doesn’t really have much of a relationship at all with the Husky baseball program. It’s not a rift and they’re not at odds. It just falls in line with the way he approached things,” Steve Sandmeyer, the Huskies play-by-play broadcaster, said in a phone interview. 「他跟华大校队并没有保持关系，他们之间并没有甚麽不愉快，这就是他处理事情的方 式，」华大校队播报员在电话访问时说到。 “He’s a big believer in moving on. I think he moved on very quickly from Washington. Whenever we had a rare opportunity to talk to him … he really didn’t want to live in the past. 「他笃信人要往前看，我认为他在离开华大之後就往前走了，虽然跟他讲话的机会非常 少...他不想要活在过去。」 (未完待续) --

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