※ [本文转录自 A-Rod 看板] 作者: z252467 (A-Usher) 看板: A-Rod 标题: [译文] A-Rod and Torre, perfect together 时间: Thu Sep 13 02:51:38 2007 A-Rod and Torre, perfect together Over and over this season, Alex Rodriguez has been asked to explain and dissect how he turned a tortuous 2006 season into a historical 2007 one. 今年赛季到了尾声，A-Rod总是被问到如何从曲折的2006年，转变到充满历史的2007年 赛季。 And over and over, A-Rod's piercing green eyes stare straight ahead, his smile freezes and he lists off a familiar handful of predictable answers. He's stopped overanalyzing himself. He's enjoying the game more. He's finally comfortable in the scrutiny of New York. 他不在过度检视自己，而是更乐在比赛之中。所以能在凡事都被放大观察的纽约过的 自在。 Then, before the Yankees completed their sweep of the Royals Sunday afternoon, before A-Rod had hit his seventh home run in five games to raise his major league-leading totals to 52 home runs and 140 RBI, Rodriguez revealed one more reason for his contentment. 在对皇家系列之前，A-Rod对他满意的表现提出另一个理由。 "I think my relationship with Joe has grown tremendously," he told The Record. A-Rod:我想我跟Torre之间关系已经变好非常多。 Rodriguez was talking about Yankees manager Joe Torre, the same man who dropped him to eighth in the batting order in the Yankees' final playoff game a year ago, a Game 4 AL Division Series loss in Detroit. If that was rock bottom, however, the two veteran baseball men have forged a path to a new friendship this season. No longer does Torre measure his words when speaking about his cleanup hitter, worried how they might impact a fragile psyche. No more does Rodriguez wonder how much his manager truly trusts him, confident without question that he does. A-Rod谈到Torre，就是那个在去年季後赛最後一场把他排到第八棒的Torre。然而如果 那是最糟的情况，那这两个棒球场上经验丰富的人本季重新建立起他们的关系。每当 Torre谈到他的第四棒时，不再斟酌於用字上，以前他总会担心这会冲击他们脆弱的心灵。 A-Rod也不用担心总教练有多相信他，只要有信心地做好他该做的。 "That makes me feel good," Torre said inside the tunnel near the visitors' clubhouse in Kansas City. "You never know when you're trying to have a relationship, and understand it's still manager-player, that the most important thing for me is to have the player understand I'm always there for him. Torre说:那让我感到舒服...阿不是！让我觉得很好。就我而言，要试着和一个球员建立 关系，尤其知道他是主力球员，最重要的就是让他了解我随时都在替他着想。 "I think he's more open this year. That's probably more because instead of my trying to figure out what buttons to push or what tone of voice to use, I just sensed from spring training he was more relaxed and seemed more into having a little more of a good time. I think he's trusting more." 我想他今年放的更开了，这很有用。我不用老想着该用什麽方法或用怎样的语气来帮他， 从春训的时候就觉得他更放松而且看起来会更好，我想他更相信自己。 Nurturing this particular link has been a challenge for Torre, who so deftly has managed many other superstars. But where he grew along with the likes of Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera, where he quickly clicked with big-ticket additions such as Roger Clemens, Jason Giambi and Mike Mussina, the A-Rod phenomenon was just different. Torre已经成功管理其他超级明星，对他来说培养这样个关系一直以来就是一个挑战。 Jeter、Posada、Pettitte、Rivera这些球员跟着他成长，也顺利管理像Clemens、 Giambi、Mussina等这些昂贵交易来的球员，但是A-Rod的情况就是不一样。 "I think he has been the hardest, only because I've never had somebody who was just a lightning rod like he is and at the center of everything, good, bad or indifferent," Torre said. "I try to speak in a positive way about everybody and maybe a lot of times I didn't take the right road with him because I wasn't sure. I was trying to find a way to make him comfortable. But his eyes right now are just without strain for me." Torre:我想他是最困难的，因为我从没有过像他这样耀眼的球员，而且不管是好是还 是坏事，他总是事件的核心人物。我都试着用正面的态度去谈任何人，但也许这样做 对他不是好的手段。我以前都尝试找出方法帮他纾解压力，不过现在他的眼神已经没 有任何压力了。 The joy of Rodriguez is impossible to miss. He laughs with Jeter in the dugout. He laughs when Robinson Cano and Melky Cabrera sandwich him with their own post-home run dance. He laughs when an entire bullpen gets in on the latest A-Rod joke, imitating the shoulder stretch Rodriguez did after a recent tough slide into second base only to hit a home run his next at-bat. 而A-Rod的乐趣是不能让人漏掉的，他跟Jeter都在休息区笑，笑当他全垒打时被Cano和 Cabrera把他人肉三明治，笑整个牛棚替A-Rod带来的最新玩笑。在一次他滑向二垒之後 起身伸展他的肩膀，而他在下一个打席马上打出全垒打，整个牛棚都模仿他那次滑垒之 後的动作。 "It's unbelievable. I've never seen a team make more fun of one guy than this team," Rodriguez said. "They love making fun of me and I enjoy that. I'm not good at making fun of them, so I just take it. I'm a goofy guy. I make a lot of mistakes. Sometimes you have to be able to laugh at yourself. In the past, maybe I haven't done that enough." A-Rod说:太难相信拉。我没看过任何一支球队比这队还会在一个人身上找这麽多乐趣， 他们喜欢对我开玩笑而我也很乐在其中。我只能对此不以为意因为我也不擅长开他们玩 笑，我是一个笨蛋。有时候你要有嘲笑你自己的能力，这方面以前的我可能做的不够。 Cabrera and Cano deserve a lot of credit for bringing out A-Rod's exuberance. The three, often heard chattering in Spanish, have become good friends. "I love them. They're amazing," Rodriguez said. "They both lighten me up and I need that. I can be too tight. Leche [Cabrera's nickname] is a riot." A-Rod有如此活力的表现，Cabrera和Cano可以获颁好几面荣誉勳章。这三个常常用西班牙 语聒噪不停的人变成很好朋友。A-Rod说:我喜欢他们，他们很神奇，他们两个总在我需要 帮忙的时候点醒我。我有时可能会太过紧绷，Leche(Cabrera的绰号)则是非常有趣。 Cano admitted many of his friends outside the Yankees have a predisposed dislike of Rodriguez. "Some people say to me 'he's a mean guy.' I say no, 'you've got to understand you're not going to please everybody,' " Cano said. "He is like my big brother. He helps me all the time." Cano承认有些洋基以外的朋友不喜欢A-Rod，Cano说:有人跟我他是卑鄙的家伙，我跟他 们说他们错了，他们该了解这样说不会让人高兴。A-Rod就像我的大哥，他总是随时在 帮我。 Whether A-Rod's joy can translate into postseason success or whether it can convince him to sign a contract extension remains to be seen. But it certainly can't hurt. A-Rod制造的乐趣不会让人忘记的。不管会不会成为季後赛成功的因素，或是说服他签 剩下的延长合约。 -- 翻完更希望A-Rod留在洋基阿>"< --

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