这是The Olympian上的一篇文章 谈的是AAA Tacoma Rainiers的manager Dan Rohn 内容很好笑 来分享给大家 Tricks of the trade Rainiers manager has his own way of giving players good news BY KIRBY ARNOLD FOR THE OLYMPIAN Dan Rohn loves a complete game like any other manager. A six-run rally makes his job a whole lot easier. And there's nothing like a victory. Dan Rohn和其他的棒球队总教练一样喜欢参与一整场比赛。一个6分的大局会让他的工作 容易些。但是没有什麽比比赛胜利更有趣的。 Well, there is one thing. 恩，除了一件事以外。 The greatest joy in Rohn's job as manager of the Tacoma Rainiers, the Mariners' Class AAA minor league team, is to tell a young ballplayer he's going to the major leagues. 身为塔库玛雨人队，西雅图水兵3A小联盟球队的总教练，Rohn工作上的最大乐趣，是告 诉那些年轻球员他们要升上大联盟了。 "They're all like your sons," Rohn said. "The hardest thing is to release somebody, but the most gratifying part is to send somebody up." 「他们就像我的儿子们，」Rohn说。「最困难的是要火掉某个球员，但最让人满足部分 是送那些球员上去的时候。」 Rohn, 49, is managing the Rainiers for the fifth year and, besides another good season by the team, he has felt the joy of telling a young prospect to pack his bags for Seattle. 49岁的Rohn，是第五年担任雨人的总教练，除了带领球队打出又一个出色的球季以外， 告诉一个年轻新秀整理包袱去西雅图是他最感到乐趣的。 Already this year he has given the good news to outfielder Shin-Soo Choo, infielder Mike Morse and pitchers George Sherrill and Jorge Campillo. 而今年他已经把这个好消息告诉外野手信守‧秋，内野手麦克摩斯和投手乔治雪瑞尔、 呼黑坎普利欧。 "He really, really enjoys being able to tell guys who've worked so hard about their first callup," said Mariners pitcher Matt Thornton, who went from Tacoma to the Mariners last year. "He's pulling for you to make it because he wants you to live the dream." 「他真的、真的对於能告知这些非常努力打球的球员他们要上去了这件事感到愉快，」 去年同样从塔库马来到西雅图的水手投手麦特索顿说。「他对你能上去感同身受，因为 他希望你能实现你的梦想。」 Before living the dream, however, Rohn likes to put his players through a little nightmare. 然而，在实现梦想前，Rohn喜欢先让他的球员们享受一点小小的恶梦。 "I like to play with them a little bit, especially if it's their first time," he said. 「我喜欢对他们开一点小玩笑，特别如果这是他们的第一次，」他说。 A little bit? 小小的玩笑？ Campillo, the 27-year-old Mexican League veteran who has dreamed of pitching in the majors, got the full Dan Rohn Treatment last month and wasn't sure what to make of it. 27岁的坎普利欧，来自墨西哥联盟的投手，梦想有一天能在大联盟投球，上个月接受了 Rohn全套的「招待」，而且还搞不清楚发生了什麽事。 Rohn concocted a story, then called Campillo into his office after a game late one night. Rohn准备好了一个故事，然後在晚上一场比赛後叫坎普利欧到他的办公室。 "We've sold your contract," Rohn told him. 「我们已经把你的合约卖掉了，」Rohn告诉她。 Campillo, who understands little English, looked puzzled. Rohn repeated his words. 英文很烂的的坎普利欧看起来不懂Rohn的意思。Rohn又重复了一次。 "We've sold your contract. To Japan." 「我们已经把你的合约卖掉了。卖到日本去。」 Campillo didn't understand the "Japan" part. 坎普利欧还是不了解「日本」是什麽意思。 "He thought he was going back to Mexico, and he was really down about it," Rohn said. 「他以为他要回墨西哥了，而他真的因此心情低落，」Rohn说。 It took awhile, but Rohn convinced Campillo that he would be suiting up with the Mariners the next day. 用了一点时间，Rohn才说服坎普利欧相信他明天要和水手会合去比赛。 "When the club tells you they're going to call someone up, I think about it for a while and plan how I'm going to mess with the guys, especially if it's their first time," Rohn said. "It's always fun to see the look in their eyes." 「当球队告诉我说他们要叫某个人上去时，我会思考一下，然後计画好如何趁此机会 玩一下球员，特别是针对那些第一次被叫上去的，」Rohn说。「看他们被耍时的眼光 总是能带来乐趣。」 Pitcher J.J. Putz remembers getting a 1 a.m. phone call from Rohn, who is renowned for calling players after they're already in bed. This time, he dialed up Putz about 2 1/2 hours before the team had a 3:30 wakeup call in Edmonton. 投手姐姐普兹还记得半夜一点接到Rohn的电话，而Rohn喜欢在球员上床睡觉以後才打 电话给他们是众所周知的。情形是Rohn带队在艾德蒙顿打客场比赛，球队的早安Call 是三点半，这通电话早了2个半小时打。 "J.J, I'm in Room 904. Get your butt over here right now!" Rohn screamed to a half-awake Putz. 「姐姐，我在904号房。马上让你的屁屁离开床！」Rohn吓着半梦半醒的普兹。 "I knocked on the door and he said, 'It's open! Get in here and sit your butt down!'" Putz said. "I was wondering what I did. Did I say something stupid or do something? 「我去敲门然後Rohn说，『门没锁！进来然後坐下！』」普兹说。「我回想我做过哪些 。我有做错什麽或做了什麽吗？」 "Then he said, 'You're going back to the big leagues tomorrow. Congratulations,' " Putz said. "I said, 'Man, why do you have to do this stuff?' " 「然後Rohn说，『你明天要回大联盟了。恭喜，』」普兹说。「我说，『老大，你搞这 麽多飞机只为了要告诉我这件事？』」 Rohn finally smiled. "Because it's fun." Rohn笑了。「因为这样很有趣阿。」 One of Rohn's favorites was the day in 1999 he told former pitcher Jordan Zimmerman that he was going to the majors. Zimmerman had just come up from Double-A and never imagined being called up to the Mariners. 这麽多有趣的反应中Rohn最喜欢的是1999年他告诉前投手乔登齐默曼他要上大联盟那天。 齐默曼刚从2A被升上来，而且从没想过会被水手升上去。 "It was right at the trade deadline and I told him we'd made a trade with Detroit," Rohn said. "He put his head down and looked like he was going to cry. 「那时候离交易大限没几天了，而我告诉他我们刚和底特律做了交易要送他过去。」 Rohn说。「他低下头，而且看起来要哭了。」 "Then I told him, 'OK, you didn't get traded. You're going to the big leagues.' " 「然後我跟他说，『OK，你没被交易，你要上大联盟了。』」 And Zimmerman cried some more. Almost all of them cry, Rohn said, especially the first-timers. 然後齐默曼哭的更凶了。Rohn说几乎所有的球员都会哭，特别是那些第一次被升上去的。 Infielder Mickey Lopez, who was finishing his 10th minor league season and thinking last September that it might be his last, was the subject of Rohn's most elaborate scheme. 内野手米奇罗培兹，去年度过他第10年的小联盟球季，而且认为去年九月应该是他的 最後机会，他的例子被Rohn选为他最花心思的杰作。 The Rainiers were finishing their season, and the Mariners had decided to call up Jeremy Reed, Greg Dobbs and Lopez. 雨人结束了他们的球季，而水手决定把杰瑞米瑞德，格瑞格都巴斯和罗培兹升上去。 Most of the players had already left the Rainiers' clubhouse after a game when Rohn called Reed and Dobbs into his office while Lopez lingered in the clubhouse. Because it was the time of year when players typically are called up to the majors, it was obvious what Rohn was telling those two. 在比赛後，大部分球员都已经离开雨人的球员休息室，当Rohn叫瑞德和都巴斯进他的 办公室时，罗培兹还留在休息室里。因为每年当上面要叫人上去时，都选在这个时候 很明显的Rohn就是在告知这两个人。 Lopez then decided to go home. Rohn had another player grab him in the parking lot, saying the skipper needed to talk with him. Lopez went back to the manager's office, and Rohn looked somber. 罗培兹决定要回家。Rohn早就叫另一个球员先准备好把他挡在停车场，告诉他老大要 跟他谈谈。罗培兹回到总教练的办公室，而Rohn看起来很忧郁。 "I told him, 'Sometimes, Mick, we try everything we can to get you up, but timing is everything in this game,'" Rohn said. "I could see him drop his head." 「我告诉他，『很多次，米克，我们试着尽一切努力想让你升上去，但是时机往往是 这项运动里的一切，』」Rohn说。「我看到他的头垂下来了。」 Then Rohn told Lopez that the timing was perfect this time, that he was becoming a big-leaguer. 然後Rohn告诉罗培兹这次时机成熟了，而他已经是个大联盟球员。 "He started bawling," Rohn said. 「然後他开始大哭，」Rohn说。 Meanwhile, the rest of the team reappeared in the clubhouse, another act orchestrated by Rohn. He'd asked them to drive around for awhile, then come back when they saw Lopez go back inside. 同时，其他队友们也出现在休息室，这是Rohn的另一项精心策划。他要求他们先离开 一下子，然後等看到罗培兹回头进办公室时再回到休息室。 "The whole team was waiting outside the door, and when he walked out, they were all giving him high fives," Rohn said. 「全队都等在办公室门外，而当他走出去时，他们抢着和他击掌庆贺，」Rohn说。 Sometimes, Rohn doesn't act alone. 有时候，Rohn并不只唱独角戏。 When the Mariners called up pitcher Brian Sweeney in 2003, he included Tacoma pitching coach Jim Slaton, who had become close with Sweeney over their years in the minor leagues. 当2003年水手要升投手布莱恩史威尼上去时，Rohn找来塔库玛的投手教练吉姆史拉顿和 他搭配，史拉顿在史威尼5年小联盟生涯中和他非常亲近。 "Rohnie told Sweeney something had happened and that he should call me," said Slaton, now the Mariners' bullpen coach. "Sweeney asked me, 'What's wrong? Are you OK?'" 「Rohnie告知Sweeney有些事要发生了，而他必须叫我一起来听。」现在是水手牛棚教练 的史拉顿说。「史威尼问我，『发生什麽了？你还好吧？』」 Slaton then spun a sad tale. 史拉顿用难过的语气说。 "Brian, you and I have been together a long time, since A-ball, and I wanted you to be the first to know about this," Slaton told him. 「布莱恩，你和我一起共事很久了，从A开始，而我希望你是第一个知道这件事的人，」 史拉顿告诉史威尼。 "What's going on?" Sweeney asked. 「到底是发生什麽了？」史威尼再问。 "They just fired me," Slaton said. 「他们刚刚火了我，」史拉顿说。 "What? How can they fire you? What have you done? There's no way they can do that," Sweeney said, getting angry as he talked. 「什麽？他们怎麽能火掉你？你做了什麽？他们不能这麽做，」史威尼用气炸的语气说。 Then Slaton came clean. 然後史拉顿语气一转。 "Sweeney, that's not it," he said. "You're getting called up to the big leagues." 「史威尼，事情不是这样的，」他说。「你要上大联盟了。」 Sweeney didn't cry. 史威尼没哭。 "You'd better not be lying to me this time," Sweeney said. "If you're lying, I'm going to punch you right in the face when I see you." 「你最好不要在这时候骗我，」史威尼说。「如果你骗了我，以後每次我看到你时， 我会冲上来把拳头放到你脸上。」 Ah, the joy of messing with a kid during his proudest moment. Slaton, like Rohn, said it's the best part of the job. 恩，这些是在这些孩子最光荣的时刻愚弄一下他们的乐趣。史拉顿和Rohn有一样的看法 ，说这是这项工作最有意思的地方。 "When you have guys you've been around a long time, who are over-achievers make it because they worked hard, it really makes you happy," Slaton said. "It's one of the perks." 「当你跟这些家伙相处很长时间，知道他们很努力并因此达成他们的梦想，这会让你 快乐，」史拉顿说。「这是额外的小费。」 --

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