Johnny has come lately: Damon feeling just fine in NY By Steve Buckley Boston Herald General Sports Columnist 重点: 强尼近来状况不错: 大门在纽约感觉就是赞。Johnny be good! Johnny Go! 1. 目前已经很少人会谈到红袜队在强尼大门脱逃到纽约时, 红袜是什麽都做不到只会笨拙 地做事後的填补。一年前, 波士顿城内当然还有很多愤慨的声音。那时大门为洋基的球 队带来了不计一切去求胜, 活力及团队的精神，然而他的继任者玉米碎片(Coco Crisp) 却不是被踢出红袜打线就是表现得与他的位置很不相衬。但随着今年球季红袜在美联 东区将洋基远远抛在脑後, 以及Crisp接了很多美技的球, 同时显露出他亮丽的打击能 力後, 让红袜队认为买来他还算是首选, 目前已经很少或没有再提起大门了。而且, 不管怎样, 大门今年球季已经损伤了很多, 已经无法打出很多安打, 现在实质上已经移 出到左外野, 把中外野让给了Melky Cabrera。 2. 所以当红袜过去秀场的偶像替洋基展现出炮火, 在七局对着松阪打出两分全垒打, 使洋 基昨晚在主场以5比3赢过红袜时, 一个地方性的记者对大门说, 咦, 他近来似乎真的像 是个比较快乐的家伙了。大门有点吃惊地顿了一下, 露出一个健美男人的笑容说: "你 说什麽, 难道之前我是个悲情的家伙(感叹声)!" (的确连ptt的乡民都觉得你之前是个 悲情的家伙) 3. 嗯, 或许不是那样, 但明显的是昨天在他的置物柜面对记者的大门, 是那个和譪可亲, 笑容满面, '美好时光的强尼', 已经从季初他疼痛的腿经常发作中回复回来, 展现出 不同於季初全新面貌的形象。就算是总教练Torre也注意到这件事, 说在这场比赛後: "大门真的有好的肢体语言, 实际上他感觉好多了。完全显示他的状况回来了, 他每 天打起来是精力充沛, 他再来大部份的时间会上场打球。现在轮到松井需要照护他 的膝盖, 所以大门可能会比先前更多时间守左外野。" 4. 那些在大门在红袜队时追随他的球迷,都知道大门是个打球奋不顾身的球员, 一个即使 他的身体都抗议想要休息时, 他都打得很勤奋。这还是没有改变, 除了残酷的事实就 是, 本季他需日日夜夜担心他不能上到老托叔叔的打线名单上。在这样的情况下, 他 没法成为球队活力的来源, 而必须尴尬地扮演休息区的领导角色。所以你会退缩一点, 内敛一点, 然後你变成一个悲惨的家伙(唉....)。大门说: "你知道的, 那是很尴尬 的, 你知道你没法上去做每个人期待你能做的事。而且谁知道我需要多久的休息, 但 希望每件事的发生都有理由, 可以让我们有很好的机会的感觉可以延伸下去, 不管我 们後面两场对红袜的比赛可打得多好。"大门继续说: "我来到这个联盟总是有这样的 感觉, 我可以追到飞球的落点, 而当你伤了本季前三或四个月後, 你就开始担忧作不 不到了。但Joe做得很棒的是让我休息,让我的腿得到休养, 而这时是个紧要的关键时 刻。" (不知大门是任何事都往正面看, 还是不枉是个场面话大师, 把功劳全都归给 老托。) 5. 大门可能将一直遭受红袜球迷的嘘声, 那是他们的权利。他们过去的英雄鲁莽地为了 加入洋基而离开了红袜队, 显然是个无法饶恕的原罪。即使虐狗,杀狗的Michael Vick 都有比Johnny Damon有更好的机会被波士顿球迷温情接受。大门说他可以宽心面对, 因 为, 他昨晚说: "我已经在纽约找到家了。" (PS: Vick是亚特兰大猎鹰明星四分卫, 警方发现他从2001年,就开始饲养并训练大型 斗牛犬,而每次斗狗活动都能带来数千美元的收入,不过他对於输掉的斗狗,就会以溺 水,勒毙,枪决,电击等方式结束牠们的生命,并埋在後院的树间,手段相当残忍。大门 竟会比他还不受波士顿欢迎, 虽然是夸饰, 但也真是有够惨...) 6. 但有时候人们回到家心情却是悲惨的, 这就是大门季初很多晚上遇到的情况。但现在 大门, 他在左外野先发的打击率是0.435, 他的肢体语言说明了一切, 他再也不悲惨 了。 Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - Updated: 05:04 AM EST NEW YORK - Funny how there hasn’t been much talk this season about how the Red Sox botched things by standing idly by as Johnny Damon made his escape to New York. A year ago, sure, there was a lot of outrage in Boston. Damon brought hustle, spark and an esprit de corps to the Yankee clubhouse, while his replacement in center field for the Red Sox, Coco Crisp, was either out of the lineup or just out of place. But with the Red Sox distancing themselves from the Yankees in the American League East this season, and with Crisp making all those great catches and showing flashes of the offensive shine that inspired the Sox to acquire him in the first place, there has been little or no Damon talk. And, anyway, Damon has been hurt a lot this season, and hasn’t hit much, and now he is literally out in left field, having ceded center field to Melky Cabrera. So when Boston’s one-time matinee idol powered the Yankees, on the strength of a two-run homer off Daisuke Matsuzaka in the seventh inning, to a 5-3 victory over the Red Sox last night at the Stadium, one of the local reporters put it to Damon that, gee, he sure seems a happier guy these days. Damon paused for a beat, and then, sporting a healthy man’s smile, said, “What are you saying, I was a miserable (expletive) before?” Well, perhaps not that, but it’s clear that the amiable, laughing, ‘ Goodtime Johnny’ who was holding court in front of his locker late last night is a new and improved model from earlier this season, back when those aching legs were barking all the time. Even Yankees manager Joe Torre has taken note of this, saying after the game, “He’s had real good body language. Physically he feels much better. And it’s really showing up, and he’s all in this thing. He’s pumped about playing every day, and he will play most of the time, now with (Hideki) Matsui nursing the knee, he’ll probably get more outfield time than he did earlier.” Red Sox fans who followed Damon during his Boston days know him as a gamer, a guy who played hard even when his body was screaming for a respite. This has not changed, other than the sobering reality that there have been days and nights this season when he simply couldn’t will himself onto Uncle Joe’s lineup card. Under these circumstances, it’s hard to be the life of the party, awkward to play the role of clubhouse leader. So you retreat a little, pull back. You become a miserable (expletive). “You know, it’s awful when you know you can’t go out there and do what everyone expects you to,” Damon said. “And who knows how long of a break I needed, but hopefully everything happens for a reason, and coming down the stretch I feel real good about our chances, regardless of how well we do against the Red Sox these next two games. “When I came into this league,” he said, “always there was the feeling that I could chase down fly balls, and when you’re hurt the first three or four months of the season, you start to worry. But Joe did a great job resting me, getting my legs under me, and this is crunchtime.” Damon probably will always be booed by Red Sox [team stats] fans, and that’s their right. Their one-time hero had the temerity to leave Boston in order to take up residence in the Bronx, apparently an unpardonable sin. It's as though Michael Vick has a better chance of getting warmly received in Boston than Johnny Damon. Damon can deal with it, because, as he said last night, “I have found a home in New York.” But sometimes people come home miserable. Such was the case with Damon on too many nights earlier this season. Now he is hitting - in 15 starts in left field he has hit .435 - and the body language says it all. He is miserable no more. --

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